What is LVS 1095:2026, the Latvian standard for BIM client requirements?

What does the standard cover?

The standards body, Latvijas standarts (LVS), describes it as a part of the client's technical specification. It sets:

• the basic principles of the BIM brief, quality requirements, workflows and procedures;
• minimum technical requirements for creating and updating building information models during design and construction;
• duties for the client as well as the supplier, especially in collaboration and information management.

It works for a design-and-build contract and for design and works under separate contracts. A client can add what a project needs, for example BIM deliverables, level of information detail, an as-built model, point clouds, VR and AR or simulations. Informative annexes help to detail the requirements, set the level of information detail and prepare the contract BIM execution plan.

PIP stands for pasūtītāja informācijas prasības, client information requirements. English-language documents usually call them EIR.

Is it mandatory?

Not by itself. LVS says that applying it is voluntary unless a regulation, tender documents, a contract or another binding document requires it. So a tender or contract that names it makes it binding for that project.

It does a different job from the law. Regulation No. 529 says that a new publicly funded third-group building needs a model, and says nothing about the model's quality. LVS 1095:2026 gives the client a way to state that. LVS names the amendment to Regulation No. 529 as what prompted the standard.

Does it replace VNĪ's BIM requirements?

Neither announcement says so. LVS and VNĪ both say the standard is built on VNĪ's BIM documentation and guidelines. VNĪ wrote its requirements in 2019 and began using them in new tenders in 2020. Its announcement of 17 August 2026 says it uses them in public construction tenders, and its website still publishes them: version 2.0 from 2022, with the sample-model annexes at version 2.1 from 2023.

LVS's description mentions an annex for the contract BIM execution plan, but not sample-model requirements or evaluation criteria, which bidders know from VNĪ's tenders. So don't assume they carried over. Read which document each tender names.

What does a client still have to decide?

We can't say from the public descriptions what the standard itself fixes. Under the 2023 guidelines on the most economically advantageous tender and VNĪ's requirements, these are the client's to decide:

• when BIM starts and ends on the project, and the minimum list of deliverables;
• which models are needed (architecture, structures, engineering systems, federated, others) and at what level of detail;
• deadlines and other conditions of the project, which VNĪ writes in a project-specific requirements template;
• who checks the deliveries. VNĪ's requirements say a client needs its own BIM staff or a BIM consultant to run the process, and recommend quality checks from the client's side too.

The guidelines also warn against asking too much. High detail, 4D or 5D that nobody will use means paying for an expensive product with no return. For example, high detail may matter only for the architecture and structural models if the engineering models won't be used in operation.

What does it mean for bidders and designers?

• Find out which document your tender names: the standard, VNĪ's requirements or the client's own.
• Read the standard itself if it is named. It is sold in the LVS catalogue, and certified building specialists can read it in LVS's online reading room.
• Price what the client adds, since project-specific requirements change the scope.

What is this article based on?

The standard's text is sold by LVS and is not reproduced here. This article rests on LVS's and VNĪ's own descriptions of it, so check the standard before relying on a particular requirement.

How Digitalyse can help

For public clients we write BIM requirements for tender documents and run BIM management on the client's side. For bidders we prepare the BIM part of the bid. See BIM management and BIM in Latvian public tenders.

Sources

Checked on 4 November 2026.

• LVS: the new Latvian standard for BIM client information requirements, 9 July 2026
• LVS: BIM standards, with the note that LVS 1095:2026 is voluntary
• VNĪ: its BIM requirements become the basis for a new Latvian standard, 17 August 2026
• VNĪ: BIM competence centre and its requirements
• 2023 guidelines on the most economically advantageous tender