buildingSMART International is a nonprofit organization that develops open standards to support building information modeling (BIM) and sustainable construction. It has 13 chapters across 24 countries. The organization's vision is sustainability through sharing structured building data using open international standards. Its key standards include IFC for defining reusable building information, IDM for documenting information exchanges, and IFD for cataloging building terminology. The organization believes that governments can achieve cost savings, improved value, and lower carbon emissions by using open and shareable building asset information throughout the lifecycle of their facilities.

1. buildingSMART International
Exploiting BIM – how standards allow
you to take the advantage
Nick Nisbet
Technical Coordinator
buildingSMART UK & Ireland

2. buildingSMART International
About buildingSMART International
• Founded in 1995
• 13 Chapters
• 24 Countries
• Not-for-profit Standards Organization

3. 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

6. 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

8. Sharing
Sharing …
Strategy: Inter-operability
• One input, many paths
• With whom ?
• Yourself,
• Your colleagues
• Project partners and contractors
• Clients
• Regulators

9. Structured …
BIM IFC
B S
I U D
M B A
S M T
O I A
F S B
Structured … T
W
S A
Management: Check-ability A I S
R O E
• One input, many checks E N
RULE CHECK
VIEW/BROWSE

10. Information
Information
Productivity: Re-usability
• One input, many outputs
• (courtesy HLN and Bryden Wood)
18 May 2012

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. Standards
Sharing … Processes IDM
• Repeatability
• Process improvement
Structured … Product IFC
• Facilities and capacity
• Information
Information … Terms IFD
• Objects
• Properties and classifications
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14. 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”

16. Hypothesis
“Government as a client can derive significant
improvements in cost, value and carbon
performance through the use of open
sharable asset information”

17. Strategic: Owner purposes
Purpose Detail BSI Pas 55 references
P01 Registration of assets to support accurate audit and reporting. This includes GIS, land and address identification 4.5.1a, 4.4.6, 4.6.6,
Registration for the facility. It includes spaces and zoning. including stacking or sectoring, and components and systems and 4.5.1.3
typing.
P02 Documentation of the intended use, capacity and utilisation of the Facility to support comparisons of actual use 4.5.1b, 4.5.1 i, 4.5.1.4
Use and utilisation and utilisation and portfolio management. It also supports improved briefing for future projects.
Includes data for any soft-landings usage review
P03 Information necessary for the normal operations of the building to support the facility operators and the owner 4.5.1 i, 4.5.1.2, 4.6.1
Operations to anticipate costs of operations.
P04 Information on the recommended maintenance tasks including planned preventative maintenance to support 4.5.1c, 4.5.1.2, 4.5.1.5,
Maintenance and the facility operators the owner to anticipate costs of maintenance. 4.5.2
repair
P05 Information on the reference or expected replacement service life and costs should be available to the facility 4.5.1.7
Replacement operators and to the owner to anticipate costs of maintenance.
P06 Information on factors to support the management of the end of use stage, whether resale, tenancy release or 4.5.1d, 4.5.1.6
Assessment and re-use demolition.
P07 Economic and environmental (but not social) impacts 4.5.1 iii
Impacts
P08 Information to support the on-going evaluation of the business case for ownership of the facility, as required 4.5.1
Business case during the design development gates. Continuously review is the primary driver for the intermediate ‘Drops’.
P09 Information to support the management of the security and surveillance of the facility, excluding sensitive 4.4.7
Security and parameters.
surveillance
P10 Information to help ensure the health and safety (H&S and CDM) of the users of the facility, such as known issues 4.5.1 iii, 4.6.2, 4.4.8
Regulation and and sub-optimal configurations.
Compliance

18. Assembly relationships
COBie Assembly between components and
types
Facility includes Project, Site Actors and their roles,
and Building. including designers,
consultants, contractors, sub-
contractors and suppliers,
Floors are the mandatory
spatial structure. warrantors and maintainers.
Zones are additional
functional groupings of spaces. Documents including briefing,
design and submittals
Spaces are the functional
locations where maintenance
and operation occur. Values with name, description,
and unit.
Components are the physical
occurrences.
Connections between
Type are mandatory components and types
products/types used to
organise tasks.
Systems are additional
functional groupings of
components Positioning of floors, spaces
and components in 3d space.
Spares are the physical and
jobs are the processes used to
maintain and operate the
asset. Conflicts between objects,
such as between the brief and
Resources support the
processes.
the spaces.
Economic, environmental and
Impact social impacts by life cycle
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© AEC3 2011

19. COBie: Space
Yellow: Purple: Green:
Required, Required if linked Requirable Fields
checkable data with applications (see contract specs)
Salmon:
Keyed in from other
sheets

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