BIMserver.org aims to enhance collaboration among professionals in the architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry by providing an open and stable platform for others to build upon. Their mission revolves around creating a favored software platform for AEC collaboration, with a focus on innovation and flexibility. The organization emphasizes open standards and extensibility through a variety of integration options and plugins, supporting efficient project management and communication in AEC projects.

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Work in progress....
Léon van Berlo M.Sc.

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BIMserver.org
We are not software vendors….

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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

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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

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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…

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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

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BIMserver.org
Example Plugins / Extensions

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github.com/bimserver/

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http://extend.bimserver.org

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BIMserver.org
Work in progress (right now)

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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)

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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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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….

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MVD
mvdXML
New plugin
Checking schema validation
Partners needed (PennState? Chipman?)
2013

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We are not software vendors
and you are welcome to join us…