Towards Integrating BIM and GIS—An End-to-End Example from Point Cloud to Analysis

Ellul, C; Boyes, G; Thomson, C. Claire; Backes, Dietmar

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-25691-7_28

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“…Eventhough the implementation of BIM has offered new ways for cooperation between the project team, some problems may arise during its application (Ellul, et al, 2017). For instance, an issue may occur when the method for sharing model information among the team member is not being determined.…”

Section: Teamwork and Collaborationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Catching Up With Building Information Modeling: Challenges and Opportunities for Quantity Surveyors

Zainon

Mohd-Rahim

Aziz

et al. 2018

JSCP

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Building Information Modeling (BIM) is gaining a momentum within the construction industry in Malaysia, and worldwide. The 5-dimensional (5D) of BIM has sparked a new way of working in Quantity Surveying practice, transforming the traditional functions of a Quantity Surveyor (QS). This paper highlights the potential use of BIM in Quantity Surveying practices, subsequently discusses the challenges and opportunities gained from BIM advancement in QS profession, especially in Malaysia. Through an extensive literature review and content validation process, the utilization of BIM technology in Quantity Surveying practices works wonder in saving the time of QS have to spend on cost analysis and enhances accuracy; it does not become a threat to the profession, but BIM provides opportunities to direct QS talents towards being more efficient. The outcome of this paper should direct the QS to be BIM-ready, further could become a guide for Quantity Surveying companies' planning in enhancing skills and QS competencies in utilizing BIM hence reinforcing QS role amongst the construction professional discipline.

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Section: Teamwork and Collaborationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Catching Up With Building Information Modeling: Challenges and Opportunities for Quantity Surveyors

Zainon

Mohd-Rahim

Aziz

et al. 2018

JSCP

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“…Although GIS software is capable of modelling the built environment in 3D, geometry is not well represented [24]. For example, extensive, detailed features such as thicknesses and construction materials are neglected and simply remain modelled as a line.…”

Section: Issues With Current Gis Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Digital Information Model Framework for UAS-Enabled Bridge Inspection

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Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) provide two main functions with regards to bridge inspections: (1) high-quality digital imaging to detect element defects; (2) spatial point cloud data for the reconstruction of 3D asset models. With UAS being a relatively new inspection method, there is little in the way of existing framework for storing, processing and managing the resulting inspection data. This study has proposed a novel methodology for a digital information model covering data acquisition through to a 3D GIS visualisation environment, also capable of integrating within a bridge management system (BMS). Previous efforts focusing on visualisation functionality have focused on BIM and GIS as separate entities, which has a number of problems associated with it. This methodology has a core focus on the integration of BIM and GIS, providing an effective and efficient information model, which provides vital visual context to inspectors and users of the BMS. Three-dimensional GIS visualisation allows the user to navigate through a fully interactive environment, where element level inspection information can be obtained through point-and-click operations on the 3D structural model. Two visualisation environments were created: a web-based GIS application and a desktop solution. Both environments develop a fully interactive, user-friendly model which have fulfilled the aims of coordinating and streamlining the BMS process.

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“…However, not all researchers deal with the conversion of data from IFC to CityGML (e.g., they employ other formats, integrate both worlds in a unified model [6] or through queries over the shared spatial context [7]). We have identified a set of 17 publications dealing with the conversion from BIM to GIS [2][3][4]6,[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22].…”

Section: State Of the Art: Ifc → Citygml Conversionmentioning

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Achieving Complete and Near-Lossless Conversion from IFC to CityGML

Stouffs

Tauscher

Biljecki

2018

IJGI

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The Singapore Government has embarked on a project to establish a three-dimensional city model and collaborative data platform for Singapore. The research herein contributes to this endeavour by developing a methodology and algorithms to automate the conversion of Building Information Models (BIM), in the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) data format, into CityGML building models, capturing both geometric and semantic information as available in the BIM models, and including exterior as well as interior structures. We adopt a Triple Graph Grammar (TGG) to formally relate IFC and CityGML, both semantically and geometrically, and to transform a building information model, expressed as an IFC object graph, into a city model expressed as a CityGML object graph. The work pipeline includes extending the CityGML data model with an Application Domain Extension (ADE), which allows capturing information from IFC that is relevant in the geospatial context but at the same time not supported by CityGML in its standard form. In this paper, we elaborate on the triple graph grammar approach and the motivation and roadmap for the development of the ADE. While a fully complete and lossless conversion may never be achieved, this paper suggests that both a TGG and an ADE are natural choices for supporting the conversion between IFC and CityGML.

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Towards Integrating BIM and GIS—An End-to-End Example from Point Cloud to Analysis

Cited by 11 publications

References 11 publications

Catching Up With Building Information Modeling: Challenges and Opportunities for Quantity Surveyors

Catching Up With Building Information Modeling: Challenges and Opportunities for Quantity Surveyors

A Digital Information Model Framework for UAS-Enabled Bridge Inspection

Achieving Complete and Near-Lossless Conversion from IFC to CityGML

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