Management of collaborative BIM data by the Federatinon of Distributed Models

Beach, Thomas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5610-8027, Petri, Ioan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1625-8247, Rezgui, Yacine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5711-8400 and Rana, Omer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3597-2646 2017. Management of collaborative BIM data by the Federatinon of Distributed Models. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering 31 (4) , 04017009. 10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000657

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Abstract

The architecture engineering and construction sector is currently undergoing a significant period of change and modernization. In the United Kingdom in particular this is driven by the government’s objective of reducing the cost of construction projects. This is to be achieved by requiring all publicly funded projects to utilize fully collaborative building information modeling by 2016. A common goal in increasing building information model (BIM) adoption by the industry is the movement toward the realization of a BIM as either a single data model or a series of tightly coupled federated models. However, there are key obstacles to be overcome, including uncertainty over data ownership, concerns relating to the security/privacy of data, and reluctance to “outsource” data storage. This paper proposes a framework that is able to provide a solution for managing collaboration in the architecture engineering and construction (AEC) sector. The solution presented in this paper provides an overlay that automatically federates and governs distributed BIM data. The use of this overlay provides an integrated BIM model that is physically distributed across the stakeholders in a construction project. The key research question addressed by this paper is whether such an overlay can, by providing dynamic federation and governance of BIM data, overcome some key obstacles to BIM adoption, including questions over data ownership, the security/privacy of data, and reluctance to share data. More specifically, this paper provides the following contributions: (1) presentation of a vision for the implementation and governance of a federated distributed BIM data model; (2) description of the BIM process and governance model that underpins the approach; (3) provision of a validation case study using real construction data from a U.K. highways project, demonstrating that both the federated BIM overlay and the process and governance model are fit for purpose. - See more at: http://ascelibrary.org/doi/full/10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000657#sthash.jIj574Lh.dpuf

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Computer Science & Informatics Engineering
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
Publisher:	American Society of Civil Engineers
ISSN:	0887-3801
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	11 December 2016
Date of Acceptance:	18 October 2016
Last Modified:	06 Nov 2023 21:49
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/96834

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