BIM

Whether you're interested in enhancing your knowledge within our BIM executive program or simply wish to take the standalone certified training course, this workshop is for you!

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Workshop Content

The workshop focuses on utilizing ISO 16739 Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) for information exchange in construction and engineering projects for the built environment. The workshop covers various aspects of IFC-based data exchange, including process modeling conformance to parts 1,2, and 3 of ISO 29481 Information Delivery Manual (IDM), Value-Add Assessment (VAA) analysis, and verification and validation procedures as defined within ISO 9001.

Course Learning Outcomes (CLO)

Recognize the significance of ISO 16739 IFC-based information exchanges in BIM projects, demonstrating comprehension of their role in enhancing collaboration and interoperability across the project lifecycle for humans and machines.

Apply business process modeling techniques specific to BIM contexts to identify and model use cases for IFC data exchange, analyzing their applicability and impact on project efficiency.

Evaluate earned value analyses derived from BIM process models to assess the performance of IFC-based information exchanges and propose strategies for optimization.

Generate IFC-formatted data sets for exchange, employing verification and validation procedures tailored to BIM standards and requirements, demonstrating proficiency in implementing effective information exchange protocols within BIM environments.

Prerequisites

Access to an IFC supporting design BIM application, e.g. Revit, Archicad, etc. on the days of taking the course.

Computer Operating Systems:

Participants are allowed to use whichever operating systems they normally use in academia and/or professional practice, e.g. Windows OS for Revit, or Mac OS for Archicad, or Linux for BlenderBIM (https://blenderbim.org/download.html), etc.

What you can expect

The below course outline is an overall four step process to develop ISO 16739 IFC-based information exchanges utilizing a formal standard IDM > MVD process. An information delivery manual approach and method is deployed to create standard IFC-based model view definition. First, the business process for the data exchanged is investigated, and conceptual data schema is modeled as a Venn Diagram. Second, the core process and sub-processes needs are defined and modeled using BPMN2. Third, the IFC Entities for each data attribute are defined and a logical schema is created using ISO 101303-28. Last, the ISO 10303-21 SPFF IFC-based physical schema is created using a BIM authoring application.

Day 1: IFC-based Information Exchange Lecture and Q&A

• Introduction to the course module and review the syllabus.
• Explore IFC development and utilization.
• Understand how to implement ISO 16739 IFC in many different formats, e.g. ISO 10303-21&28, etc.
• Understand existing “contractable” IFC-based “information exchanges.”
• Explore IFC-based verification and validation.
• Explore ISO 29481 Information Delivery Manual (IDM).
• Understand how to utilize IDM to create IFC-based Model View Definitions.
• Explore key differences between Information Delivery Specification (IDS) and MVD.
• Explore how an IFC-based data model for domain specific projects are developed.
• Understand how IFC information exchange data schemas are created.
• Explore IFC-based sub-schemas for all life-cycle actor data exchange.

Day 2: IDM Introduction and Workshop

• Review ISO 29481 Information Delivery Manual (IDM).
• Explore IDM-base Business Process Modeling and Notion (BPMN)
• Explore IDM tools, and methods, e.g. Eclipse, and Value-Add Assessment (VAA).
• Understand how to use IDM tools and methods to create BPMN2 models for IFC-based data exchange.
• Create an information exchange project proposal by identifying a core business process, and understanding the IDM tools and methods required for fulfilling the business process.
• Define the purpose of the business process, and value of its information exchange.
• Define and list the exchange requirements.
• Create an ISO 16739 IFC-based conceptual data schema, in Venn Diagram format, for the overall data model for the information exchange.
• Identify and note within the proposal which actors are involved, e.g. Architect, Mechanical Engineer, Structural Engineer, etc.
• Identify and note within the proposal what machines and software are to be used, and begin to identify and label possible non-value add portions of the process.
• Create a BPMN2 model for the IFC-based information exchange within the project proposal.
• Understand and develop actor and machine swim-lanes with exchange requirements based on the project proposal.
• Deliver the business process model for the information exchange within the project proposal.

Day 3: IDM Workshop

• Execute the delivered proposal by applying the learned IDM tools and methods from Day2.
• Identify each of the Ifc Entities for all data to be exchanged within the business process model.
• Create an IFC-based information exchange data schema by indicating all structured Ifc Entities for data within a spreadsheet schema format utilizing MVD information exchanges discussed and shown in the classroom.
• Evaluate an IFC-based information exchange data schema using VAA, i.e. eliminate non-value add tasks where possible.
• Deliver and IFC-based information exchange data schema.

Day 4: IFC Workshop

• Explore the IFC compliant design application to be used for information exchange.
• Create an IFC-based information exchange in ISO 10303-21 SPFF.
• Evaluate and validate the IFC-based information exchange.

Learn more about the expert

Dr. Shawn E. O’Keeffe is an applied research scientist from New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, and he lives and practices from Dublin, Ireland. Dr. O’Keeffe is an inventor and creator of cyber-physical systems to solve engineering problems. At the core of these systems are building information models and information management systems. Over a decade ago, while teaching BIM&VDC at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) and conducting research for the U.S Army Corps of Engineers ERDC CAD/BIM centre in Vicksburg, MS, he created the Virtual LEED Review System (VLRS) based on core Construction Specifications Institute (CSI), and buildingSMART supported ISO-based OpenBIM standards that are now ubiquitous within BIM systems today.

Dr. O’Keeffe’s’ next major effort was a set of tools he invented and patented for automatic validation BIM data and geometry and automated 3D reconstruction of semantic models. The most widely adopted of these technologies has been BIM & Scan® AutoCorr™ for BIM validation and construction monitoring on over 400 projects. AutoCorr™ is now used in over 50 countries. Dr. O’Keeffe recently invented the Telecommunications Life-cycle information exchanged (TLie) data model which is the core foundation for how telecommunications site construction data can now be set up and delivered on a global scale. He developed the BIM & Scan® OpenOp system to assist in the deployment of TLie-based information modeling and management on a global scale, and recently, hundreds of new sites and tens of thousands of building information models have been created using TLie to structure, deploy, and manage network project life-cycle data on several continents. COBie is an important part of the TLie data model. Therefore Dr. O’Keeffe is a COBie Certified Professional (bSI-CCP), he helped created the COBie certification curriculum, and he co-authored several COBie publications. He is part of the buildingSMART International: COBie Certification Industry Advisory Board, and IFC4.3 AOH-SSEM IDM: Requirements Team Lead.

Dr. O’Keeffe also contributes to the CEN/TC442 BIM WG2 via the NSAI BIM Committee where the ISO standards use as the basis for COBie and his research projects are built. Dr. O’Keeffe teaches and mentors, masters, and PhD students, at the Technical University of Dublin, the University of Barcelona, University of Luxembourg, the University of Florida, and the Mediterranean Institute of Technology (MedTech).

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