4. Léon van Berlo M.Sc.
BIMserver.org
http://bimserver.org/about/philosophy/
Our mission is to help all actors in the Architectural, Engineering and
Construction (AEC) industry to collaborate more efficiently and
effectively (and thereby creating better buildings for lower costs).
Our goal is to create the most favorite software plaform for
collaboration in the AEC-industry.
Our values are the core principles that define everything we do:
Innovation
Reliable
Responsibility
Commercial
5. Léon van Berlo M.Sc.
BIMserver.org
Strategy:
Mission: help AEC to collaborate more efficiently and effectively
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Position: Not softwarevendors
Creating a platform for others to build on top / extend;
No direct end-users;
Creating a snowball effect;
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Goal: create most favorite platform
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Mission: help AEC to collaborate more efficiently and effectively
6. Léon van Berlo M.Sc.
BIMserver.org
What BIMserver is….
Open and stable core to use and build on top
Open interface, lots of network protocols (rest, soap, PB, json)
Open standards
Plugin framework
Extensions / notification
ObjectIDMs
Database interfaces
Highly flexible configuration
Open source
etc…
7. Léon van Berlo M.Sc.
BIMserver.org
How that looks in a schema
(example for „output‟)
External Internal
Services Services
GUI
plugin
EMF Object
Serializers Database(s)
core IDMs
ServiceInterface
In BIMSie standard
Merge Render Query Compare MVDs
(4 protocols)
algorithms engines engines algorithms (xml)
Configurable per
user/project/server
23. Léon van Berlo M.Sc.
BIMserver.org
Work in progress (right now)
24. Léon van Berlo M.Sc.
BIMserver.org
Low level service calls…
Only commit/communicate changes
Add
Edit
Delete
Already in BIMserver 0.1 (“changesets”)
Now stable in ServiceInterface
Working on standardisation of protocol with BuildingSMART (BIMsie)
27. Léon van Berlo M.Sc.
BIMserver.org
Additional data (mostly per revision/project)
In version 1.2
Result from satellite server concept
Extendible for standardisation
Examples:
BCF
IDM
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28. Léon van Berlo M.Sc.
BIMserver.org
PubSub / federation of BIM engineering
ART of BIM (Automatic Revision Transformation of BIM)
Satellite server concept
Patent pending
First production „satellite server‟ is COBie server (USACE)
More examples in progress…
Clash detection server
PNG producer
BOM extractor
CO2 life cycle calculator
Many many (many!) more….