Interoperability Analyses of BIM Platforms for Construction Management

Gaetani, Carlo Iapige De; Mert, Mertkan; Migliaccio, F.

doi:10.3390/app10134437

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“…Interoperability can be defined as the workflow that allows interconnected applications to be executed by different users, using communication networks (LAN or WAN), through different types of computer systems, operating systems or software suites. In this way, BIM becomes a collaborative strategy in architecture and engineering, where the term "information" implies a sense of transparency among the project operators, aimed at generating a culture of teamwork based on efficiency and integration [33][34][35].…”

Section: Open Standards For Interoperabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Building Information Modeling as an Effective Process for the Sustainable Re-Shaping of the Built Environment

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This paper focuses on the definition of a method supported by digital processes for a sustainable and user-orientated re-design of the existing building stock. Based on the analysis of the methodological and procedural aspects of the computational approach to architectural design in relation to different performance conditions, the research addresses the adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM), intended as a powerful method for coordinating the complexity of the multiple, interdisciplinary and conflicting aspects involved in the rehabilitation of buildings. In addition to the advantages in terms of control and management, the BIM process has proven its effectiveness in tackling the issue of sustainability, allowing all actors involved in the research to share information and pro-actively control various outcomes of a building’s performance, such as energy and environmental quality. To show the opportunities and limitations of the digital management in information-based processes, the activities carried out in the framework of the European Horizon 2020 project “Pro-GET-onE—Proactive synergy of inteGrated Efficient Technologies on buildings’ Envelopes” are reported. The research, based on a case study method, which is applied to a student residence in Athens, demonstrates that BIM possesses great potentialities for developing effective and efficient construction and renovation processes toward buildings with high quality standards.

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Section: Open Standards For Interoperabilitymentioning

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Building Information Modeling as an Effective Process for the Sustainable Re-Shaping of the Built Environment

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“…This reflects what one might consider to be the primary technological challenge in deep renovation, namely the technical viability of integrating appropriate context-aware deep renovation technologies in a proper manner to achieve the required outcomes and meet the relevant regulatory standards [30]. In this respect, it implies that many of the challenges are more technical than technological and that they may more correctly be categorised as human-related factors, e.g., (i) awareness, (ii) availability (iii) and the ability to select and implement the most appropriate technologies [9,31]. These factors result in quality-related issues and suboptimal performance, leading to dissatisfaction with renovation technologies as a whole.…”

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“…Linking data across the lifecycle of a renovation project presents a number of challenges, e.g., identifying and reconciling different representations at both the schema and object levels, mismatches among sources, incompatible levels of abstraction or sectorspecific data taxonomies and, obviously, data quality issues [35]. While there have been a number of attempts by both industry and the academic community to address these issues (e.g., [33,[35][36][37][38]), not the least being ISO 29481 [39], the primary focus was on a limited number of specific sub-systems, the planning and design phase and supply-side stakeholders [31].…”

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RINNO: Towards an Open Renovation Platform for Integrated Design and Delivery of Deep Renovation Projects

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The building stock accounts for a significant portion of worldwide energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. While the majority of the existing building stock has poor energy performance, deep renovation efforts are stymied by a wide range of human, technological, organisational and external environment factors across the value chain. A key challenge is integrating appropriate human resources, materials, fabrication, information and automation systems and knowledge management in a proper manner to achieve the required outcomes and meet the relevant regulatory standards, while satisfying a wide range of stakeholders with differing, often conflicting, motivations. RINNO is a Horizon 2020 project that aims to deliver a set of processes that, when working together, provide a system, repository, marketplace and enabling workflow process for managing deep renovation projects from inception to implementation. This paper presents a roadmap for an open renovation platform for managing and delivering deep renovation projects for residential buildings based on seven design principles. We illustrate a preliminary stepwise framework for applying the platform across the full-lifecycle of a deep renovation project. Based on this work, RINNO will develop a new open renovation software platform that will be implemented and evaluated at four pilot sites with varying construction, regulatory, market and climate contexts.

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“…Simultaneously, BIM (Building Information Modeling) [8] technology gains significant development in construction management, and it is regarded as the solution of prefabri-cated buildings' construction management. Since many different disciplines, participants, and BIM software are involved in prefabricated buildings' construction management [9], managers have to work with different types of file formats, which leads to difficulty in data sharing. Research shows that information sharing among all participants and processes is the most critical factor required to manage prefabricated construction [10].…”

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IFC-Based 4D Construction Management Information Model of Prefabricated Buildings and Its Application in Graph Database

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Effective data interoperability and schedule analysis play a significant role in improving the management of prefabricated buildings. However, there is a lack of efficient strategies and comprehensive approaches for data interoperability and data-based automated schedule analysis. This paper intends to promote prefabricated buildings’ management by solving these two problems via developing an IFC-based framework consisting of three parts. Firstly, this framework proposed a mechanism to establish an IFC-based 4D construction management information model of prefabricated buildings. Furthermore, a non-relational database—graph database—is introduced to twin this model into a task-centered network to realize the interoperation of construction information among different participants. Finally, graph database-based strategies to update data, automatically analyze construction schedules and visualize the 4D construction management information model are described. The proposed framework is validated in a prefabricated engineering case. In this case, an IFC-based and graph database-based 4D construction management information model is established through IFC standard’s extension. The graph database-based analysis of the model automatically recognizes the engineering case’s critical path information, delay analysis information, and schedule network analysis information. It is illustrated that this framework can successfully establish a unified IFC-based information model of prefabricated buildings’ construction management to prompt effective data interoperability. In addition, the application of this IFC-based information model in graph database can automatically analyze the construction schedules to prevent possible delays in advance. In short, the significance of this paper is to innovatively propose an IFC-based and graph data-based information model to solve the difficulties of ineffective data interoperation and unautomated schedule analysis in prefabricated buildings’ construction management. This study can be the digital foundation of further IFC-based digital twin.

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Interoperability Analyses of BIM Platforms for Construction Management

Cited by 37 publications

References 24 publications

Building Information Modeling as an Effective Process for the Sustainable Re-Shaping of the Built Environment

Building Information Modeling as an Effective Process for the Sustainable Re-Shaping of the Built Environment

RINNO: Towards an Open Renovation Platform for Integrated Design and Delivery of Deep Renovation Projects

IFC-Based 4D Construction Management Information Model of Prefabricated Buildings and Its Application in Graph Database

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