ISO 16484-1:2024

Building automation and control systems (BACS) - Part 1: Project specification and implementation

This document specifies guiding principles for project design and implementation and for the integration of other systems into the building automation and control systems (BACS).

This document specifies the phases required for the BACS project, including

—     design (determination of project requirements and production of design documents including technical specifications),

—     engineering (detailed function and hardware design),

—     installation (installing and commissioning of the BACS), and

—     completion (handover, acceptance and project finalization).

This document also specifies the requirements for as-built documentation and training.

This document is not applicable to operation and maintenance, nor is it applicable to retro or continuous commissioning, including a commissioning authority.

To comply with a standard, you need to quickly understand its issues in order to determine its impact on your activity.

The Requirements department helps you quickly locate within the normative text:
- mandatory clauses to satisfy,
- non-essential but useful clauses to know, such as permissions and recommendations.

The identification of these types of clauses is based on the document “ISO / IEC Directives, Part 2 - Principles and rules of structure and drafting of ISO documents ”as well as on a constantly enriched list of verbal forms.

With Requirements, quickly access the main part of the normative text!

The Redline + service - standards comparator allows you to easily and simply identify major changes between the current standard and its last canceled version.

At a glance, you will be able to identify the additions, deletions or modifications to a text, table, figure and formula.


The Redlines + service is offered to you on the collection of French standards in force, in French language and in HTML and PDF format.

For an overview of the service, click on View a standard in redline format

COBAZ is the simple and effective solution to meet the normative needs related to your activity, in France and abroad.

Available by subscription, CObaz is THE modular solution to compose according to your needs today and tomorrow. Quickly discover CObaz!

Request your free, no-obligation live demo

I discover COBAZ