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Open BIM

&

Closed BIM

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Statement A: “BIM is a business process from which

you can select technology that best meets your needs.”

Statement B: “BIM is a technology that determines your business process based upon the

vendor’s capability.”

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Statement A: “BIM is a business process from which you can select

technology that best meets your needs.”

Statement B: “BIM is a technology that determines your business process

based upon the vendor’s capability.”

QUESTION 1 Which statement below represents the best interests of your business? QUESTION 2 In reality, which statement represents what is currently happening?

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What is BIM? BIM is an acronym which represents three separate but linked functions: BUILDING INFORMATION MODELLING - Is a BUSINESS PROCESS for generating and leveraging building data to design, construct and operate the building during its lifecycle. BIM allows all stakeholders to have access to the same information at the same time through interoperability between technology platforms. BUILDING INFORMATION MODEL - Is the output of the business process resulting in a DIGITAL PROTOTYPE, a virtual computer model of a project which holds selected structured data about the asset (design, quantity, time, cost, as built etc). BUILDING INFORMATION MANAGEMENT - Is the ORGANISATION & CONTROL of the business process by utilising the information in the digital prototype to effect the sharing of information over the entire lifecycle of an asset. The benefits include centralised and visual communication, early exploration of options, sustainability, efficient design, integration of disciplines, site control, as built documentation, etc. – effectively developing an asset lifecycle process and model from conception to final retirement.

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What communication protocol does it need to succeed?

• A common language

• A platform to communicate the common language

• A willingness to communicate the common language

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Three Ways To Apply BIM Communication Protocols

1. Bespoke

2. Single platform (Closed BIM)

3. Common Platform (Open BIM)

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Everyone learns everyone else's language

BESPOKE

UN

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Everybody, bar 1, has to change their language

UN

SINGLE PLATFORM (CLOSED BIM)

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COMMON PLATFORM (OPEN BIM)

UN

IFC

Everyone uses their own language with a common interpreter

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What is OPEN BIM? OPEN BIM is a universal approach to the collaborative design, realisation and operation of buildings based on open standards and workflows. OPEN BIM is an initiative of buildingSMART International (bSI) and several leading software vendors using the open buildingSMART Data Model.

Why is it important? •OPEN BIM supports a transparent, open workflow, allowing project members to participate regardless of the software tools they use. •OPEN BIM creates a common language for widely referenced processes, allowing industry and government to procure projects in transparent commercial engagement, comparable service evaluation and assured data quality. •OPEN BIM provides enduring project data for use throughout the asset life-cycle, avoiding multiple input of the same data and consequential errors. •OPEN BIM enables small and large (platform) software vendors to participate and compete on system independent, ‘best of breed’ solutions. •OPEN BIM energises the on-line product supply side with more exact user demand searches and delivers the product data directly into the BIM.

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Why OPEN BIM Will Succeed • Best in Class, Fit for Purpose With such a vast array of software products on the market, it is impossible to accept that any one vendor can produce the best solution to all problems. One open communication protocol means that products can be selected on their capability and not their source.

• Competition The software market is under continuous development and vendors are always looking to improve performance, scope and deliverables. In an open market, this will continue unabated as the quest for competitive advantage is the primary goal.

• Application In a major construction project, there are likely to be a significant number of stakeholders using a variety of software tools. It makes absolute business sense that each stakeholder can use their tools of choice providing it can exchange data with others. Only if a particular tool set does not have this communication capability should pressure be bought to change.

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Why OPEN BIM Now?

“Our final vision for the delivery of this information will be a fully web

enabled transparent (to the user) scenario, based on the Building Smart

IFC/IDM and IFD standards.” BIS BIM Strategy

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