Content

• Class 01
  • Brazilian legal system:
    • Which type of regulation takes precedence: Ordinance, Regulation, Federal Law, State Law, Decree or ABNT Standard?
    • When regulations address the same subject, which should be followed: the newer or older one? The broader or more restrictive one?
    • Current status of Brazil's BIM legal framework: Laws, Decrees and ABNT Standards in force
    • Key points of Decree 11.888/2024 on the BIM-BR Strategy
      • Meaning assigned to BIM (Building Information Modeling)
      • BIM-BR Strategy objectives
    • Key points of Decree 10.306/2020 on BIM use in direct or indirect delivery of construction and engineering services by the Brazilian Government
      • Public entities covered and assigned actions
      • Definition of “BIM Model”
      • Requirement to deliver files in open formats

•  Lesson 02
  • BIM and Law 14.133/2021 on Public Procurement and Administrative Contracts — overview
    • Assessing the suitability of BIM for the procurement scope
    • How to correctly specify BIM use in the procurement scope
    • Other key aspects of the relationship between BIM and Law 14.133/2021
  • BIM and Law 13.303/2016, the State-Owned Enterprises Law

• Class 03
  • • BIM and professional responsibilities regulated by the CONFEA/CREA and CAU/BR-CAU/UF systems
      • Law 5.194/1996, establishing the CONFEA/CREA system
        • CONFEA Resolution 1029/2010
      • Law 12.378/2010, establishing the CAU/BR and CAU/UF systems
        • CAU/BR Resolution 67 / 2013
      • Professional Councils' Codes of Ethics
    • BIM and Law 9.610/1988 consolidating copyright law

• Class 04
  • BIM and Law 8.078 / 1990, the Consumer Protection Code
    • Definitions of Consumers, Suppliers, Products and Services
    • Basic consumer rights
    • Consumer relations in the BIM market
    • Misleading advertising about BIM and using BIM
    • Abusive practices in BIM-related products and services
  • BIM and the Access to Information Law (LAI)
    • Law 12.527/2011
    • Access to and disclosure of BIM-related information
    • Access procedures
    • Access restrictions

• Class 05
  • BIM and Law 12.813 / 2013 on conflicts of interest in public service
  • BIM and Law 13.709 / 2018 (LGPD)
    • Personal data processing and BIM
    • Data subject rights
    • Personal data processing by public authorities
    • International data transfers
    • Data processing agents, security and oversight
    • About the National Data Protection Authority (ANPD)
  • BIM and Law 13.874 / 2019, the Economic Freedom Law

• Class 06
  • BIM and Brazil's metrology framework
    • Law 5.966 / 1973: National System of Metrology, Standardization and Industrial Quality (Sinmetro), Conmetro and Inmetro
    • Inmetro's responsibilities and powers
    • Accreditation mechanisms
    • Certification framework: mandatory and voluntary
  • BIM and the standardization framework
    • Standardization levels
    • Standards organizations: ISO, IEC, ABNT
•  Lesson 07
  • Brazilian technical standards on BIM

Who is this course for?

This course is for architects, engineers, managers, consultants, lawyers and public officials involved in commissioning or providing BIM-based design and construction services. It is particularly suitable for those preparing tender documents and contracts, participating in procurement or needing to understand how laws and standards relate to BIM deliverables, parties' responsibilities, copyright and the processing and sharing of information.

Course technical details

• 18 hours of live online classes
• Course materials are provided as BIM models in IFC and other formats, PowerPoint or PDF presentations and Excel tables, with extensive bibliographic references to further your studies.
• PLEASE NOTE: Copies of the ABNT standards mentioned in this course are not provided!
• Access all your classes, recorded live on video! You have three months from the start of the course to download your video classes.
• Our courses count as complementary activities in undergraduate architecture, engineering and design programs.
• At the end of the course, a completion certificate is issued to those who attended at least 75% of the live online classes.

About the instructor

• In education, Gaspar has spent 26 years researching BIM-related tools and processes and developing training under the EBBIM – Empresa Brasileira de BIM brand.
• In academia, Gaspar teaches BIM in postgraduate programs at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (Architecture and Civil Engineering), SENAI-SP/ISEP and FIA Business School.
• Work on the development and editing of BIM guides and manuals:
  • Co-authorship of the teaching materials for the Democratizando BIM – Agentes Públicos course for the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development (ABDI): 5 workbooks and instructional video scripts, in 2025;
  • Participation in a working group and content review of 3 BIM manuals for the Urban Infrastructure Department of São Paulo City Hall (SIURB), in 2025;
  • Co-writing and co-editing of the Good Practice Guide for BIM Procurement: Volume I – General Guidelines, for the National Union of Architecture and Consulting Engineering Companies (SINAENCO), in 2024;

• Since November 2022, Gaspar has coordinated ABNT Special Study Commission 134, responsible for creating, editing and publishing Brazilian BIM standards. Between 2018 and 2022, within CEE-134, Gaspar participated in the working group that developed parts of ABNT NBR 15965-4:2021. Construction Information Classification System:
  • ABNT NBR 15965-4:2021. Construction Information Classification System. Part 4. Construction Resources;
  • ABNT NBR 15965-5:202. Construction Information Classification System. Part 5. Construction Results
  • ABNT NBR 15965-6: Construction Information Classification System. Part 6. Construction Units and Spaces.

• Since July 2022, Gaspar has held a PhD from the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism at FAU-USP, with research into the use of BIM in social housing projects, supervised by Prof. Dr. Gil Garcia de Barros.
• In August 2019, Gaspar obtained a master's degree from the Graduate Program in Architecture, Technology and the City at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), supervised by Prof. Dr. Regina Ruschel.

• With ProBooks Editora, João Gaspar has authored several books, notably “Revit passo a passo – volume I” (co-authored), “ARCHICAD passo a passo”, volumes I and II (co-authored), “Vectorworks passo a passo” and “SketchUp Pro 2013 passo a passo”. With the same publisher, Gaspar edited “101 Conceitos em Arquitetura e Urbanismo na Era Digital”, “Arquitetura contemporânea e automação: prática e reflexão” and “Métricas Urbanas: abordagens paramétricas no planejamento de bairros e cidades sustentáveis”.

• As a researcher, his publications and presentations at major conferences include: Trimble Dimensions (Las Vegas, 2026), Autodesk University (Las Vegas, 2023 and Nashville, 2025), A ERA BIM (São Paulo, 2025, 2024 and 2023), SIGraDI 2024 (Barcelona, 2024), CIB W78 2018 (Chicago, USA), SIGraDI 2017 (Concepción, Chile), CIB W78 2015 (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and TIC 2015 (Recife).