The document discusses the state of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the Netherlands, highlighting the lack of national policies and mandates, which allows for flexibility and independence in its implementation. The evolution of BIM use has focused primarily on its benefits driven by industry needs rather than governmental imposition. It also points out a significant divide between policymakers and practitioners in terms of priorities and practical applications, with a call for both sides to work towards a shared vision.

1. BIM IN THE NETHERLANDS
Léon van Berlo - TNO

2. BIM IN THE NETHERLANDS

3. “NATIONAL” BIM GUIDELINES

7. BIM IN THE NETHERLANDS
MORE RECENT YEARS….

8. THE NETHERLANDS
Liberal
Gay marriage is just called marriage
Coffeeshop means something else
Little mandates
Little prohibitions

9. THE NETHERLANDS ON BIM
No National BIM policy (no money for it either)
No real BIM mandates from government
Lots of “figure it out yourself”
Lots of freedom for users
and that seems to work just fine….

10. OVERVIEW
BIM usage started with architects and engineers (big marketing campain in
2004-2006). Gradually made its way down the chain to contractors, suppliers,
etc.
Little to no influence from the government (RVB is only for own use).
BIM is used because the industry sees the benefits (not because they are
mandated).
IFC seems to just work
BIM culture is formed by revisions, updates, coordination, collaboration and
iterations. Not by operate/maintain needs or policy makers.
Quite unique situation
High level of partitioning BIM; smaller on policies

11. STATUS OF BIM IN THE NETHERLANDS
BIM Quickscan® data

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Autodesk Revit
Tekla BIMsight
Bentley Microstation
Grafisoft Archicad
Nemetschek Allplan
Sharing native files
within product
families (e.g.
Autodesk, Bentley,
Nemetschek, Trimble)
Connected BIM
Collaboration based on
openBIM formats
lonely
social
Evolution of BIM maturity 1 (3)

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Typical evolution
Child
Teenager Adult
lonely
social
Evolution of BIM maturity 2 (3)

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Markets follow that maturity evolution 3 (3)
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SWE
NL
FRA GER
UK
RUS
ANZ
US
CHN
JAP
KOR NOR FIN
SIN
lonely
social

15. SPLIT IN THE BIM MARKET
Policy makersPractitioners

16. SPLIT IN THE BIM MARKET
Policy makers
BIM is the goal
Practitioners
BIM is not a goal, but a great way
to achieve the goal

17. SPLIT IN THE BIM MARKET
Policy makers
BIM is the goal
Top down
What is needed to finish the story
Practitioners
BIM is not a goal, but a great way
to achieve the goal
Bottom up
What is needed to finish the work

18. SPLIT IN THE BIM MARKET
Main names: BIR and BIM Loket
Many many others….
Write documents
Get their inspiration from the UK
Focus on mandating and ISO stamps
Very high level of knowledge
Work with what is available
Collaborate on solutions that are
not available and publish “Best
practices”
Focus on working with BIM/data

19. SPLIT IN THE BIM MARKET
“Standardisation”
Concept libraries / Object libraries
National ……. Document
Protocol
Execution plan
…all the other UK terms
Informatie Leverings Specificatie
National BIM Guidelines
BCF exchange
Releasing open data set
Schependomlaan (10Gb of open
data)
Exchanging openings and recesses

20. EXAMPLES ON THE LEFT

27. EXAMPLES ON THE RIGHT

29. INITIATIVES IN THE MIDDLE

30. IS THE SPLIT A PROBLEM?
Some topics are converging
But some are diverging
Culture split is very big
Little crossover between the two
In some cases we see the gap widening…

31. CONCEPTLIBRARIES
Concept Library Netherlands
(Dutch version of BSDD)
“We have no problem that can be
solved with CBNL/BSDD (that
cannot be solved with just IFC)”
“Classifications are important,
concept libraries an overkill”
“Projects are always local”

32. IFC
“Works”
“Still needs more … (fill in some
word)”
“Implementations need to be better”
“Just geometry… need libraries for
semantics”
“file format”
“Not enough influence on IFC from
the Netherlands”

33. GENERAL
“When you do this and this, the
information gets lost, so we need to
create this and that and processes
need to be changed to use is, and we
are in the process of mandating that
as a new standard”

34. GENERAL
“When you do this and this, the
information gets lost, so we need to
create this and that and processes
need to be changed to use is, and we
are in the process of mandating that
as a new standard”
“Ok, but we never do this and this....”

35. IFC

36. IFC

37. CONCLUSIONS
Practitioners
Very high level of practical use
Big commitment to ‘solving the issue’
Not always long term thinking
Seeing different priorities for policy makers
Policy makers
Very much text/documents produced
Not always focussed on practical use

38. OUR BIGGEST CHALLENGE IS TO HAVE
THE TWO WORLDS WORK TOWARDS THE
SAME SHARED VISION

39. OUR BIGGEST CHALLENGE IS TO HAVE
THE TWO WORLDS WORK TOWARDS THE
SAME SHARED VISION

40. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION