Jan 06 2012
Chuck Eastman, Manu Venugopal, and Shiva Aram
Georgia Institute of Technology
AECbytes
Significant efforts are being undertaken to "solve" the interoperability problem by developing IFC model views that carefully define the contents needed in specific exchanges. This approach is laid out in the National BIM Standard (see National Building Information Modeling Standard, Version 1.0 Part 1 Overview, Principles, and Methodologies, Technical Report, National Institute of Building Sciences at http://www.buildingsmartalliance.org). Examples of such progress include COBie (Construction Operations Building Information Exchange, developed by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) for contractor hand-off to owner at the end of construction for operations and maintenance (see http://www.wbdg.org/resources/cobie.php) and the General Services Administration (GSA) development of GSA-2010 BIM standard for government design and review (see GSA BIM Program Overview at http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/102276). These efforts have largely targeted single or a small set of exchanges. None of the National BIM Standard efforts have yet completed a set of exchanges that address a large AECO domain.
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