COLLABORATIVE ENGINEERING WITH IFC Common practice in the Netherlands Léon van Berlo; Gijs Derks; Cyrille Pennavaire; Paul Bos

NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR APPLIED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH TNO

Helmond

Eindhoven

Rijswijk

Delft

Leiden

The Hague

Zeist

Utrecht

Groningen

Soesterberg

Trends Transitions

INTERNATIONAL OFFICES / AGENCIES

Offices

Agencies

Trends Transitions

THE POWER OF TNOFROM IDEA TO INNOVATION

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THIS RESEARCH

Interviews with practiceCo-authors are all practitioners

Goal:Finding out if there is a ‘generic’ process flow when using BIM

Methodology:Interviews and observations

Focus/scopeContractors and suppliers

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CONCLUSION

Tentative conclusions (industry still in development)

FoundIFC still works (with reference model concept)Companies use the same kind of phases But don’t give the same names to the phasesStandard iteration inside phases

So let’s have a look at the phases.….

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SOME NOTES ON THE SIDE

Interviews also found sentiment:Many unnecessary myths still around about IFCGrowing use of BCF to communicate issuesTop down policy makers are not on the same trackIt’s not about the perfect modelStandardized ‘BIM Execution plan’ is not possibleAgreements about the model are important, but MVD’s are weirdClassifications are important, but concept libraries are weird

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FUTURE RECOMMENDATIONS

Get the naming straight

Educate top down policy thinkers / Look at current practice!

Increase priority on BIM education (myths)

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION