Information management in the Construction Industry: state of the art

Annual Management Board (MB) meeting of USPI, Thursday 28 May 2015

Dream: Construction

Industry becomes Top Sector

Differences and similarities

Process industry

• Few dominant players

• Time is money

• Safety is money: standardizations

• Cooperation

• Computerization

Construction industry

• Many players

• Delay

Exceeding budgets

• Discussions about risks (tunnels)

• Lack of cooperation

• Computerization

Computerization

• Computation

• Complexity: design

• Storage and retrieval of data

• 2D to 3D (virtual reality): clash control

• 2D to 4 or even 5D (time, money)

• Industrialisation (prefab)

Data

• Data: objective (length, height, coordinates, et cetera)

• Information: subjective (edited data), unless the operation is standardized (NEN, CEN, ISO)

Transition of the construction industry by improvement of the management of

information by prescription of BIM (Building Information Modelling)

Dream: to improve the construction industry

The development of the construction industry due to computerization

LEVEL 0

• Documented oriented LEVEL 1

• Object oriented LEVEL 2

• Federated

LEVEL 3

• Integrated, lifecycle

• Paper (CAD, Excel, Word, et cetera)

• 2D, 3D

• File based collaboration & library management, 4 en 5D

• Integrated web services

• Drawings, lines,

arcs, etc.

• Models, objects

• Models, objects, common libraries

• Integrated, interoperable data

• Coordination

• Coordination

• Collaboration

• Integration

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Transition of the construction industry

• Initiative: (governmental) principals

• What: to improve the management of information in the hole process (design-built-maintenance-

demolition)

• How (1): to prescribe (appoint): (open) standards

• How (2): to implement and develop (open) standards

• How (3 ): to promote (the principles of) Systems engineering

• How (4):

Management of Information: focus to the process, framework of open standards

• Communicate information

• Exchange information

• Represent, to show, information

• The language (to understand each other; semantics)

• Amend information

• VISI

• COINS

• IFC, IMGeo,

• CityGML

• CB-NL, ETIM

• BCF

http://www.bouwinformatieraad.nl/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/kaart02-eng-v4.pdf

State of the art of the BIM standards

• VISI (process model to define transactions, messages, participants/roles related to contract)

• COINS (data/process model for exchange of (SE) information, requirements, solutions, configurations related to the object structure)

• IFC (data(/semantic) model to describe building and construction industry data)

• CB-NL (digital semantic library, connects other libraries in the (construction) sector

• Mature standard • ISO certification: ISO 29481 (Information

Delivery Manual) • (Dutch) • In operation (1.1), RWS, Prorail • Under construction (2.0) • Dutch

• Mature standard in the building sector • ISO certification: ISO 16739 • Extended (IFC4, bridges, rail and road) • IFC4: under construction (testing)

• Under construction • Testing: use cases

The objectives of CB-NL are: The CB-NL should be an active and well-organised concept library

with validated contents; not yet complete, but operating well The CB-NL is linked to existing initiatives The CB-NL has been qualified by Forum Standardisation as an open

standard The CB-NL is used in practice and prescribed by public clients Tooling should be available with which the CB-NL can be

approached (incl. web services) The CB-NL must, as a minimum requirement support the standards

IFD (Industrial, Flexible and Demountable Building) version 16 and COINS 1.0 (open BIM standard)

BIM Loket

Substitute the temporally initiative the

BIR

Stakeholder:

The construction industry

Goals of the BIM Loket:

• Management and development of BIM standards

• Integration of BIM standards

• Distribution of knowledge and experiences

Finally

My dream is an innovative renewed construction industry, working with web services (WC3), open (linked) data and the principle of sharing in

stead of having

Thank you for your attention