A Cloud-Based BIM Platform for Information Collaboration

Abstract

A cloudbased BIM platform for information collaboration Original CitationMa, Ling and Sacks, Rafael (2016) A cloudbased BIM platform for information collaboration. In: 2016 Proceedings of the 33rd ISARC. ISARC, pp. 581589.This version is available at http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/31383/ The University Repository is a digital collection of the research output of the University, available on Open Access. Copyright and Moral Rights for the items on this site are retained by the individual author and/or other copyright owners. Users may access full items free of charge; copies of full text items generally can be reproduced, displayed or performed and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational or notforprofit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided:• The authors, title and full bibliographic details is credited in any copy;• A hyperlink and/or URL is included for the original metadata page; and • The content is not changed in any way.

Building information modeling-enabled platform approach to design for manufacture and assembly

“…It is well known that BIM supports a platform approach (Farr et al, 2014;Gu et al, 2008;Ma and Sacks, 2016;Singh et al, 2011). However, most are project-level platforms and few span sectors and multiple projects.…”

BIM-kit: An Extendible Toolkit for Reasoning about Building Information Models

“…Our work shares much of the motivation and some implementation decisions with three recent publications that have proposed, or used, MongoDB for implementing repositories of BIM models. Ma & Sacks (2016) use MongoDB to store IFC files, motivated by the need for a dynamic data schema: their system uses the IFC schema but also enables dynamic addition of user-defined properties. The authors have demonstrated the use of their system for the task of reconstructing reinforced concrete beam model from earthquake damaged buildings.…”

Clustering of designers based on building information modeling event logs

“…Notably, the advanced cloud‐based BIM platforms, like BIM 360, Trimble Connect, and others, can provide a repository of rich data sources about the design stage deserving data mining. But they can only enable users to query data rather than to supplement or evaluate data (Ma & Sacks, 2016). To maximize the strength of the accumulated data in BIM platforms, new network analysis algorithms written in Python can, therefore, be encapsulated in packages and encode in the platforms as the built‐in intelligence, which has better innovation, flexibility, and reliability than software in both qualitative and quantitative SNA and can even achieve real‐time analysis.…”