Crosswalk Introduction CSI National Sept. 23rd, 2021
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The document discusses Crosswalk, a new API that allows for the standardized translation of data between different construction classification standards like MasterFormat, Uniformat, and OmniClass. This addresses the challenge of sharing data between different software applications that use different standards. The API aims to improve workflows in areas like preconstruction, building products, and connecting BIM models. Crosswalk sees opportunities to expand its role in integrating construction data across the building lifecycle and enabling new types of data flows and integrations through its API platform.
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- 2. What We’ll Discuss • Industry Digitization • APIs and Software • What is “Crosswalking?” • Crosswalk by CSI • Customer Examples • Crosswalk into the Future 2 We have room for Q & A – stop me along the way
- 3. Who Am I • General Manager, Crosswalk • Bona Fide Construction Tech Geek: • Author, Construction Technology Handbook • Publisher, Construction Technology Quarterly • Host, Constructed Futures Podcast (check out Ron Geren today!) • 25 years in technology • Serial Software entrepreneur 3
- 4. The Entire Building Industry is Digitizing First it was BIM Accounting Facilities Field 4
- 5. Along The Way, Some People Have Made Some Money • Assemble (Autodesk) • Building Connected (Autodesk) • Plangrid = $875MM • Procore = $9.6 Bn (IPO) • Esticom = ? (Procore) • Indus.ai = (Procore) • Honest Buildings = (Procore) • Many More... 5
- 6. This has Led to More Investment Into the Ecosystem 6
- 7. Which Has Also Led to: 7
- 9. What APIs Do For Software 9
- 10. Software Augments Human Effort Through Data • Data can be: • Specifications • Changes to Specifications • Content of Specifications • Design parameters • Field progress • Operating data for the building 10
- 11. This Data Used to Be Hard to Share 11
- 12. Exchanging Information Was Still Hard • The web connected everything • You could drive to the restaurant, but every order was still unique and individual. 12
- 13. Application Programming Interfaces • APIs are like McDonalds Drive Thru: • You can only get what they offer • They tell you how to ask for it (”Sausage McMuffin with Egg”) • You know exactly what you’ll get • You can order 100 and each will be identical 13
- 15. APIs In Summary: An Incredibly Flexible, Standardized Way to Provide and Access Data of (Almost) Any Kind 15
- 17. The World is Loaded With Standards • Many Overlap • Many Address the Same Thing from a Different Angle • Many are almost completely duplicative 17
- 18. Crosswalking Is “Reclassifying” Data From One Standard To Another 18
- 19. Enter CSI Standards • MasterFormat® • UniFormat® • OmniClass® • And ASTM E1557 (Uniformat II) • They overlap • They describe similar things • They can be duplicative 19
- 20. CSI Standards Are Used For More Than Just Specifications 20 Financial Cost Codes Building Products Safety Data BIM Sub- Assemblies
- 21. The Standards Are Embedded in More and More Software • Autodesk • Trimble • MasterSpec • BSD Speclink • RSMeans • Tririga • Revit Plugins • Estimating Software • More... 21
- 22. In 2020, We Combined Overlapping, Industry-Critical Standards With Modern Data- Centric Workflows to Create an Industry First API drums please. 22
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- 24. Industry First: – Standards API • MasterFormat • MasterFormat 95 • Uniformat • ASTM E1557 • OmniClass 24 • Easily Integrated into Software • Easily Transclassify from One Standard to Another • Including MF 95 to MF 2020
- 25. Crosswalk is a Platform for Development • We have launched with a rock-solid, enterprise class API • It has vast potential for further features, integrations and connections • My job is to understand what will actually be used before we build more 25
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- 32. How Crosswalk Helps: Preconstruction • Many preconstruction processes involve moving specifications, requirements and quantities from MasterFormat to UniFormat • Crosswalk helps to rapidly move this data back & forth • By using Crosswalk instead of homegrown translations, designers, specifiers, and contractors can ensure consistency in moving from one standard to another 32
- 33. Key Point: Mapping Standards Requires Judgment • Even two similar standards like UniFormat and ASTM E1557 required a great deal of judgment calls • While two standards experts might agree, many ad hoc judgments will be less consistent • Crosswalk addresses this by providing consistent, professionally made mappings 33
- 34. Customer Example: Join • Join is a preconstruction platform that has licensed Crosswalk • They use MasterFormat for intake, and can now support UniFormat 34
- 35. How Crosswalk Helps: Building Products • Keeping building products catalogs and interfaces consistent is much easier with Crosswalk 35
- 36. How Crosswalk Helps: Contractor Financials • Contractors sometimes use MasterFormat for cost codes • Many of them use MasterFormat 95 (e.g., 16 divisions) • Crosswalk can help to translate and update 36
- 37. How Crosswalk Helps: Connecting To BIM • OmniClass is often used in Revit/BIM workflows • Crosswalk can help connect these workflows to MasterFormat data 37
- 38. Customer Example: Collectus • A Revit Plugin with thousands of product models, Collectus needed to organize and manage these models. • By integrating with Crosswalk, Collectus is able to support multiple standards-based workflows in Revit. 38
- 39. Crosswalk into the Future 39
- 40. Crosswalk as Data Conduit • Across the Building Lifecycle, many forms of data, from building products to safety information to finance can be managed with CSI standards. • Crosswalk creates a new way for design and construction data to flow between stakeholders in an organized, managed way. 40
- 41. API Networks • Modern IT systems integrate many APIs from different sources • Crosswalk promises to integrate CSI standards directly into these networks 41
- 42. High Level Roadmap • API – the digital expression of CSI standards • Artificial Intelligence – augmenting design, making recommendations • Blockchain – securing transactions and making document flows auditable • IoT – managing sensor information flows as construction information 42
- 43. The Way Forward • Crosswalk was created to integrate CSI standards, and by extension specifications, more efficiently into modern workflows • By creating an API, we let the market decide what the workflows are – we will be ready wherever technology leads. 43
- 44. Thank You 44