buildingSMART International

Exploiting BIM – how standards allow

you to take the advantage

Nick Nisbet

Technical Coordinator

buildingSMART UK & Ireland

buildingSMART International

About buildingSMART International

• Founded in 1995

• 13 Chapters

• 24 Countries

• Not-for-profit Standards Organization

Vision Sustainability by building SMARTER

Mission Contribute to a sustainable built environment through

SMARTER information sharing and communication using

open international standards in the building and construction

sector, private and public.

Organization Not-for-profit

Internationally co-ordinated development of standards

Activities mainly in local chapters

Why data not documents ?

Sharing …

Strategy: Inter-operability

» One input, many paths

Structured …

Management: Check-ability

» One input, many checks

Information.

Productivity: Re-usability

» One input, many outputs

Sharing

• With whom ?

• Yourself,

• Your colleagues

• Project partners and contractors

• Clients

• Regulators

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Strategy: Inter-operability

• One input, many paths

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Structured …

Management: Check-ability

• One input, many checks

Information

18 May 2012

• (courtesy HLN and Bryden Wood)

Information

Productivity: Re-usability

• One input, many outputs

buildingSMART International is:

• A neutral, international and unique

organisation supporting open BIM through

the life cycle.

• We have regional chapters in Europe, North

America, Australia, Asia and Middle East.

What we do:

• buildingSMART Processes

• buildingSMART Data dictionary

• buildingSMART Data model

• Through activity in our local chapters we

provide activities to support implementation

of openBIM

• You can find more information about us in

our Strategic plan.

Standards

18 May 2012

IDM

IFC

Sharing … Processes • Repeatability

• Process improvement

Structured … Product • Facilities and capacity

• Information

Information … Terms • Objects

• Properties and classifications

IFD

Three Key Standards

BIM is about sharing structured data.

• IFC – “Information for Construction” ISO/PAS 16739-2005

– What information can be re-used.

– Includes designs, processes, resources, participants.

– IFC STEP files and IFC XML files define portable file structures.

• IDM – “Information Delivery Manuals” ISO/FDIS 29491-1:2009

– How specific required information exchanges can be documented.

– How to capture your requirements for application developers to meet.

– Integrates with workflow management

• IFD – “International Framework Dictionary” ISO 12006-3:2007

– Catalogues terms and concepts.

– Includes multiple languages

– Includes proprietary dialects such as “Revit-speak”, “Bentley-speak”

Hypothesis

“Government as a client can derive significant

improvements in cost, value and carbon

performance through the use of open

sharable asset information”

Strategic: Owner purposes Purpose Detail

BSI Pas 55 references

P01 Registration Registration of assets to support accurate audit and reporting. This includes GIS, land and address identification for the facility. It includes spaces and zoning. including stacking or sectoring, and components and systems and typing.

4.5.1a, 4.4.6, 4.6.6, 4.5.1.3

P02 Use and utilisation Documentation of the intended use, capacity and utilisation of the Facility to support comparisons of actual use and utilisation and portfolio management. It also supports improved briefing for future projects. Includes data for any soft-landings usage review

4.5.1b, 4.5.1 i, 4.5.1.4

P03 Operations Information necessary for the normal operations of the building to support the facility operators and the owner to anticipate costs of operations.

4.5.1 i, 4.5.1.2, 4.6.1

P04 Maintenance and repair

Information on the recommended maintenance tasks including planned preventative maintenance to support the facility operators the owner to anticipate costs of maintenance.

4.5.1c, 4.5.1.2, 4.5.1.5, 4.5.2

P05 Replacement Information on the reference or expected replacement service life and costs should be available to the facility operators and to the owner to anticipate costs of maintenance.

4.5.1.7

P06 Assessment and re-use Information on factors to support the management of the end of use stage, whether resale, tenancy release or demolition.

4.5.1d, 4.5.1.6

P07 Impacts Economic and environmental (but not social) impacts 4.5.1 iii

P08 Business case Information to support the on-going evaluation of the business case for ownership of the facility, as required during the design development gates. Continuously review is the primary driver for the intermediate ‘Drops’.

4.5.1

P09 Security and surveillance

Information to support the management of the security and surveillance of the facility, excluding sensitive parameters.

4.4.7

P10 Regulation and Compliance

Information to help ensure the health and safety (H&S and CDM) of the users of the facility, such as known issues and sub-optimal configurations.

4.5.1 iii, 4.6.2, 4.4.8

Assembly relationships

between components and

types

© AEC3 2011

COBie

Facility includes Project, Site and Building.

Floors are the mandatory spatial structure. Zones are additional functional groupings of spaces.

Spaces are the functional locations where maintenance and operation occur.

Components are the physical occurrences.

Type are mandatory products/types used to organise tasks. Systems are additional functional groupings of components

Spares are the physical and jobs are the processes used to maintain and operate the asset.

Resources support the processes.

Actors and their roles, including designers, consultants, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers, warrantors and maintainers.

Documents including briefing, design and submittals

Values with name, description, and unit.

Connections between components and types

Positioning of floors, spaces and components in 3d space.

Conflicts between objects, such as between the brief and the spaces.

Impact

Assembly

Economic, environmental and

social impacts by life cycle

stage © 2010 AEC3 Ltd www.aec3.com

COBie: Space

Yellow:

Required,

checkable data

Green:

Requirable Fields

(see contract specs)

Purple:

Required if linked

with applications

Salmon:

Keyed in from other

sheets

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International

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