Currently the ongoing IFC development projects include:

• work towards a next IFC release, IFC4 (previous development title IFC2x4), to incorporate new domain extension requirements and to be submitted as an ISO standard. See roadmap.
• work towards new IFC capabilities beyond IFC4, including a scoping study for "IFC for Infrastructure" and "Parametrics for IFC"

In parallel the domain requirement definition projects of buildingSMART are ongoing: Domain requirement projects are end user driven projects stating the need of enhanced data exchange definitions in a particular domain. Those projects are requested to have strong implementers input in order to provide realistic requests for new IFC releases. See IFC Extension Projects for more information.