bSI NewsbuildingSMART International | bSI Newsletter No.16. May 2014

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BuildingSMART responds to market demand

BuildingSMART International is embarking on change, intended to transformit into a more effective and transparent organisation that will commandgreater respect across the global industry. There are priority projects thatbuildingSMART is anxious to do projects much needed by practitioners andthe transformation will position bSI as the partner of choice among sponsors.The International Council will vote on the proposed changes in May.

Governance

New appointment

Jessica Tune has taken over the

book-keeping role for bSI, following

the departure of Beryl Garcka.Welcome!

Warmest thanks to Beryl, who

was with buildingSMART from1996. She fullled a variety of

roles in administration, nance and

membership, rst for bS UKI and

later for bSI.

Jessica can be contacted at jess.

[email protected]

PhD students learn about buildingSMART

The Technical University of Denmark held a three-week course forPhD students on the buildingSMART approach in January 2014.The course, entitled Process and data modelling for the built

environment, was run by Jan Karlshj, chair of bS Nordic.

hands-on experiencesgenerated a lot ofquestions, said the samestudent. Usually thesequestions go unansweredbut because we had thechance to ask the rightpeople, we got the rightanswers.

This is the rst year thecourse was held and it was attended

by four Danish students. The plan isnow to hold it once a year in June,run by Jan Karlshj in Copenhagen,with collaboration from Vino Tarandiat the Royal Institute of Technologyin Stockholm, opening the course toa wider intake of students. Gettingour buildingSMART experts toexplain the theory and practice of thebuildingSMART deliverables to PhDstudents will have a ripple effect,says Jan. The students will carry their

knowledge to the rms they go on towork for and have an impact on theuptake and use of open BIM.

In just three weeks, I raised myknowledge of IFC and open BIMto a level that I had not achievedin three years of my PhD studies,said one student afterwards. Thiswas largely due to the expertise thatJan had assembled for the course.He was joined by Vino Tarandi(KTH, Stockholm), Tim Chipman(Constructivity, US), Lon van Berlo(TNO, Netherlands), Thomas Liebich

(AEC3, Germany) and Hvard Bell(Catenda, Norway), who gave theirpresentations via the web.

The students appreciated thelightning instruction they receivedon buildingSMART matters, coveringthe various bS tools and standards,including IFC, IDM, MVD, BCF andbSDD. They learnt about softwareimplementation and certication, howdata is validated and the role of modelservers. They got the opportunity to

test different model servers, usingifcXML and sending requests in BCFbetween different programs. The

Visit the Technical University of Denmarks web page about the course (in English):

http://www.kurser.dtu.dk/11626.aspx?menulanguage=en-GB

PhD students receiving instruction on the buildingSMART approach to

information sharing

News reporting on bSI website

New version of bSDD

The Product Room announced the

launch of the new online version of

bSDD during bS Stockholm week. For

the full story, visit www.buildingsmart.

org and follow the links to publications

and news releases.

The buildingSMART week in Stockholm heralded changes at bSI Source: Holger Ellgaard CCSA-SA 3.0

The buildingSMART week inStockholm heralded some of thechanges. The International UserGroup (IUG) and the InternationalTechnical Management Committee(ITM) will be merged under the newstructure. Anticipating this change, thetwo streams of activities held longer

plenary sessions, and the separatesessions were shorter and moretargeted.

Another element of the restructuringis the new chapter strategy. Here theroles of the chapters and Internationalwill be more clearly dened andlinks between the centre and local

chapters are being strengthened.Collaboration between chapters andbetween projects is also emphasised,and a cross-boundary approach wasalready emerging in Stockholm. Forexample, Koreas work on IFC forroads is envisaged as being broughtcloser to the centre and designatedan ofcial bSI activity. And the InfraRoom formally encouraged itsprojects to explore ways of helping to

populate the bSDD with infrastructuredenitions.

A paper setting out the proposedchanges will be available after theBeijing meeting.


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Take ten minutes

to answer the survey. There are 12 plain-speaking questions.

Respond online at:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CreatingBusinessValueThroughBIM

or contact Susanna Vass for a pdf version ([email protected])

Creating business value through BIM

International survey to explore the economic benefts

What is the value of BIM to the wayyou work? Could you pinpoint theactivities that are bringing the greatestbenet? And, importantly, do youknow how other companies out thereare beneting from BIM? A survey on

value creation through BIM, whichkicks off in May, will be exploring theanswers and offering participantsinsights into how to achieve a strongerbusiness economic approach.

Managing the survey is SusannaVass, PhD student at the RoyalInstitute of Technology (KTH) inStockholm. With her background asan analyst in corporate real estateand nance, she is accustomedto evaluating and measuring

projects, but when she moved tothe construction sector, she founda less rigorous approach. It waswhile working at a construction rmthat I realised that certain parts ofthe construction industry make noeconomic evaluations of their projectsafter completion, she explains.Economic values matter most whendeciding whether to do a project ornot, but full post-project evaluationsare much rarer. In a busy rm, work toassess the value of BIM may not be a

high priority.I decided to dedicate myself full

time to help develop the constructionindustrys ability to use IT fully tocreate business value, and that iswhat has led me to my researchtoday, she adds.

She mooted the idea of a wide-ranging study of construction projectsin which IT is considered not only

from a technical and engineeringperspective but also from a businessperspective to ascertain whether BIM-assisted projects experience higherpositive effects. In the end, she optedfor a sharper, narrower focus on how

rms need to use BIM in order tocreate value.

Scope of survey

The survey covers whatbusinessvalue is and how it is achieved. In thesurvey I want to explore whether thereis a positive statistical correlationbetween perceptions of the businessvalue of BIM and the strategies andwork practices that are adopted,says Susanna. If you have the right

practices and procedures for BIM, willyou realise the value creation? If not,what should you do?

Although the business value of BIMhas been emphasised in previousresearch, such as the McGraw-Hillreports, BIM users have sometimesbeen left wondering what they needto do to realise the potential ofBIM. Susannas research offers allrespondents an immediate benet.

The results of the survey will bemade available through a report

and an anonymised database, andrespondents will receive the reportin advance of publication. Probablymore

useful,they willbe givenaccess tothe anony-mous

Next steps in certication

BuildingSMARTs Certication 2.0 wasdeveloped after full consultation withindustry and is widely acknowledgedas a step improvement over itspredecessor. Now bSI is rethinking itssoftware certication offering, takinginto account experience with 2.0.

At a meeting in Munich on 23 and24 April, representatives of CSTB(the French construction research

body), BRE (its UKcounterpart) andMunich Universityof Applied Sciencesgot together withbSI ofcers toconsider how industryneeds and trust in

buildingSMART standards can bemet.

The trigger for revising thebS certication process is theaccreditation of IFC4 last year and theModel Coordination View project, nowunderway. Together, they will allowsoftware vendors to implement IFC4,and resulting products will benetfrom bS certication to ensure theyfull the greater functionality of IFC4.

A signicant trend in projects is thedata drop a series of milestonesin a project when project data hasto be merged and consolidated, sothat decisions on the project canbe taken. Each step of design and,later, handover to FM represents

database,which willallow them toconcentrateon theresults by,for example,type ofrespondent,so that they

can seehow otherindustryplayers are deploying BIM.Participants will be able to selectparameters and get an immediateoutput in tables, graphs or statistics.By enabling participants to maketheir own selection of the data to beanalysed, they will receive a powerfultool and competitive resource as athank you for their participation in the

survey, states Susanna.Susannas immediate goal is to

highlight what organisations need todo to create business value throughBIM. She plans to go on to developreliable easy metrics for evaluatingthe business performance of BIMprojects.

Anyone involved in the constructionindustry can take part projectmanagers, MEP engineers, architects,facility managers, consultants andothers the more diverse, the better.Both experienced BIM users andnovices will be welcome.

one of these crucial points. Undera new certication process, the keytransactions which need a data dropwould be central to certication.Developed in this way, the new bSIcertication would make a strongcontribution to seamless progress ona project.

Further down the line, bSI isplanning the certication of processesand of people and organisations whoare competent in open BIM. Currently,bSI certication activities are beingdone in Germany but they will now beextended to France and the UK, andthen to other countries. Certication toIFC4 is likely to start in mid-2015, withcertication to IFC 2x3 still available.

IFC2x3 CV2.0

Arch

Susanna Vass


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BuildingSMART International

ExCom

Chair: Patrick MacLeamy

Deputy chairs: Reijo Hnninen and RassoSteinmann

Treasurer: Nick Tune

IUG chair: Kjell Ivar Bakkmoen

ITM chair: Francois Grobler

Members: Alain Maury and Deke Smith

Secretary/business manager: Chris Groome

Newsletter & communications

Editor: Betzy DinesenDesigner: Jane Thompson

Contact points

[email protected] (Francois Grobler,technical management)

[email protected](implementation and certication)

[email protected] (Thomas Liebich, IFC matters)

[email protected](user group)

[email protected] (Product Room and

bS Data Dictionary)

[email protected] (Jan Karlshj, ProcessRoom and IDM)

[email protected] (ChrisGroome, bSI matters generally)

[email protected] (WarwickHunt, website matters)

[email protected] (book-keeping)

[email protected] (newsletter)

What is open BIM?

Give yourself four minutes.Could you explain whatopen BIM is, who isaffected, the benets it

brings and its impact on asset operations? Be clear and persuasive and dontrepeat yourself.

You neednt try, because it has been done for you. A four-minute video,produced by bS Norway, is available on YouTube, explaining in English themethods, scope and benets of open BIM. We wanted a simple tool to informand involve those who are outside the buildingSMART world, says SteenSunesen, MD of bS Norway.

The animation is deceptively simple: it moves swiftly into outlining quitecomplex processes but without losing its straightforward narrative thread.If you need to communicate the nature of open BIM to the inexperienced, copy

off the buildingsmart link and include it in your presentation. The video is alreadybeing used in the US, Australia and Germany as a useful aid to non-techies.

Visit www.buildingsmart.org and follow the link from the home page.

Sponsors: Norwegian Building Authority, Norwegian Building Products Association,

Norwegian Home Builders Association and IFD SignOn.

New bSI award for Heroes of Interoperability

An award scheme is being set upby bSI to raise awareness of thebusiness benets of buildingSMARTstandards and processes. The newaward, entitled Business Gain throughOpen Technology, will be made to theproject that most clearly demonstrateseffective and inspirational use of open

standards.We want to create awareness of

our buildingSMART solutions usedin both government and privatesector projects and a good wayof generating publicity is throughthis award, explains Jan Karlshj,a member of a bSI panel that is co-ordinating work on the award.

And we want to highlight thepractical impact that our solutionsare already having on projects, adds

Kjell Ivar Bakkmoen, who is also onthe panel. There are front runners inbS solutions out there and we want tosingle them out as heroes.

The call for entries will begin inJune and chapters will be asked toencourage prospective entrants intheir own territories. Entries will bewhittled down to a short list of tenover the summer and the projectproles of the nalists the heroesof interoperability will be posted on

the bSI website. The winner will beannounced during buildingSMARTweek in Toronto in October.

Practitioners in the AEC and FMindustries can make submissions;so too can clients. Both membersand non-members of buildingSMARTare welcome to take part. Projectsentered must use one or moreof the buildingSMART tools andstandards (IFC, bSDD, IDM, MVDand BCF). The entries will be judged

by an international jury drawn frombuildingSMART chapters around theworld, representing the many aspectsof a project design, construction,

operations,businessvalue andso on.

Projectsentered intothe awardscheme willbe identied, as will the participants.The aim is to be transparent, not

anonymous. However, full accessto project details (such as technicalinstallations in a hospital) will notbe required only limited projectinformation need be disclosed. Wehope that the award will raise theprole of the buildingSMART-styleprojects that are being executed, tothe benet of the entrants, concludesJan. At the same time, the awardscheme will allow us to sharebest practice on how to adopt bS

deliverables and openBIM.Visit www.buildingsmart.org to see the list

of criteria and details of submission.

CEN looking to develop BIM standards

A working group has been set upby the European Committee forStandardization (CEN) to establish apermanent Technical Committee forstandardisation around open BIM andidentify where the gaps in standards

lie. The group held its rst meetingin Oslo on 12 April, with generalagreement on the urgent need forstandardisation. The lack of standardsand loose guidelines were seen asholding back the potential of BIM.

Representatives of 16 EU countriestook part, with Lisbet Landfald fromStandards Norway as secretary and

ivind Rooth from the NorwegianBuilding Authority convening thegroup. The group will start by puttingtogether proposals for its scope, workprogramme and business plan. Theidea is that existing ISO standards

will be adopted as European (EN)Standards. The new TechnicalCommittee can then choose to adoptand develop additional standardsat the CEN level to harmonise theclassication of objects, products,processes and standards. Fourcore ISO standards, embodyingthe bS standards of IDM, IFC and

IFD (bSDD), are prime candidatesfor adopting as EN standards: ISO29481, Parts 1 and 2, ISO 16739(IFC4) and ISO 12006-3.

The working group, known asCEN/BT/WG 215, will make its

proposals by December 2014.

Award

Business Gainthrough OpenTechnology

Heroes of interoperability2014

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