ISO 19650 File Naming: Generator and Checker

Under the UK National Annex the container ID is seven fields in this order, joined by the hyphen-minus: the project; the originator, the organisation that produced the container; the volume or system (functional breakdown in the 2021 revision); the level or location (spatial breakdown); the type of information (form); the role (discipline); and a number, sequential within its series. ZZ stands for all or multiple volumes or locations and XX for none. The status and the revision are metadata; a project may append them to the name, and the checker reads them when it does.

The project, originator, volume or system and level or location codes are the project's own, set in its information standard. The type, role and status codes are the National Annex lists, which a project may extend. The page ships those lists from the guidance that reproduces them, names the source of each, and lets every list (the project's and the standard's) be edited; the whole code set travels in the link and in the Excel file.

The status, or suitability, says what a container may be used for: S1 suitable for coordination, S2 for information, A1 authorized and accepted. The revision counts its issues: P01, P02 for preliminary, non-contractual issues, C01 for contractual ones, and a full stop with two more digits for a work-in-progress version, P01.01. In the National Annex table S0 takes a preliminary revision and version, the shared S codes and B a preliminary revision, and A and CR a contractual one.

The revised National Annex of February 2021 renamed volume or system to functional breakdown, level or location to spatial breakdown, type to form and role to discipline; removed the recommended field lengths; withdrew S6, S7 and CR; used S4 and S5 for authorization and acceptance; and revised the discipline codes. The page offers both editions. Its 2021 discipline and status lists come from secondary articles and say so, and the 2021 form table could not be read from a free source, so the 2018 type list is carried and marked for validation.

Yes. ISO/DIS 19650-1 and ISO/DIS 19650-2, both edition 2, were at stage 40.93 (full report circulated, decision for a new DIS ballot) on 18 August 2026, and the new Part 2 is to replace ISO 19650-2:2018 and ISO 19650-3:2020. The National Annex codes may change with it, which is why every field and list on this page is set per project.

Enter the codes your client's exchange information requirements or the BIM execution plan set (the project, the originators, the volumes and the levels) pick the National Annex edition the project follows, and edit the type, role and status lists where the EIR differs. Copy the link and send it to the team: everyone builds and checks names on the same code set, and the register exports to Excel for the document controller.

A separator that is not the hyphen-minus (an en or em dash, a minus sign, an underscore or a space) a missing or an extra field, lower case, a character other than A–Z and 0–9, the wrong number of characters, a code missing from the project's lists, a status that is not in the list or has been withdrawn, a revision of the wrong shape or family, and a duplicate line. Each error is shown on its field, with the reason.