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  • CIB - International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction
    "Providing a global network for international exchange and cooperation in research and innovation in building and construction, in support of an improved building process and of improved performance of the built environment"
  • IfcWiki -an open portal
    The IfcWiki is an open portal to publish and share information about IFC, it is not an offical site of the IAI. However the IAI acknowledges the importance of an open knowledge base around its products, such as IFC, and supports this initiative - includes lists of software, publications and related events
  • The Information Delivery Manual
    IDM captures (and progressively integrates) business process and provides detailed specifications of the information a BIM user requires to fulfill a particular role within a project.
  • National Technological Platforms in Construction and the Built Environment (Europe)
    Many European countries have now established National Technology Platforms (NTP) addressing the future needs of the built environment, and particularly the challenge of innovation and industry transformation in the construction sector. Some of the programs undertaken focus on BIM and ICT collaboration.
  • ITC Digital Library - scholarly publications
    "The ITC Digital Library has an ambition to provide a single point of entry to scholarly and research publication from the domain of construction informatics alias construction information technology. We believe that works, in full text, should be available for free, to the researchers, students and the industry"
  • Stand-inn - Europe Innova - Standards Networks
    "STAND-INN is addressing new manufacturing processes based on the IFC standards with objectives to create new and more efficient business processes, thus facilitating the construction sectors great potential for cost reduction and productivity increase, consequently, improving the competitiveness of the B&C industry."
  • GSA 3D-4D Building Information Modeling
    "In 2003 the General Services Administration (GSA), through its Public Buildings Service (PBS) Office of Chief Architect (OCA), established the National 3D-4D-BIM Program. OCA has led over 30 projects in its capital program, and is assessing and supporting three dimensional (3D), four-dimensional (4D), and Building Information Modeling (BIM) applications in over 35 ongoing projects across the nation. The power of visualization, coordination, simulation, and optimization from 3D, 4D, and BIM computer technologies allow GSA to more effectively meet customer, design, construction, and program requirements. GSA is committed to a strategic and incremental adoption of 3D, 4D, and BIM technologies"
  • BIM Guidelines - NBIMS (American)
    NBIMS (the National Building Information Model Standard project), is a committee of the National Institute for Building Sciences (NIBS) Facility Information Council (FIC). Since 1992 the FIC mission has been to "improve the performance of facilities over their full life-cycle by fostering common and open standards and an integrated life-cycle information model for the A/E/C & FM industry.
  • BIM Guidelines - Senaatti Properties (Finland)
    This highly important effort has generated multiple documents detailing integrated procedures, technologies and processes
  • BIM Resources @ Georgia tech
    The Design Computing Group, and AEC Integration Laboratory, led by Professor Charles M. Eastman (Chuck Eastman), at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech, GT), has significant experience in the field of computer-aided design and manufacturing, solids and parametric modeling, engineering databases, product modeling, design cognition and cognitive science.
  • InteliGrid Project
    The goal of InteliGrid project is to provide a grid-based integration and interoperability infrastructure to complex industries such as construction, automotive and aerospace. Our vision of future engineering is a flexible, secure, robust, ambient accessible, interoperable, pay-per demand access to information, communication and processing resources. InteliGrid will make the grid infrastructure available to the
  • SmartGeometry Group
    The SmartGeometry Group is in the process of registering itself as an educational charity with the aim to furthering advanced education and research in the area of advanced 3D. The group is currently sponsored by Bentley Systems
  • University of UTAH - BIM Articles and Links
    A series of BIM articles collated by The Center for Integrated Design and Construction (CIDC)
  • CWIC - Collaborative Working In Construction
    CWIC (pronounced as "Quick") stands for Collaborative Working in Construction. Successful building development depends entirely on the collaborative communication between diverse design, construction and operational professionals. The key is to use information technology tools to facilitate collaboration between business partners.
  • IAI Building Smart Oslo Conference
    Government & Industry Day, Oslo Norway 2005 Multiple presentations dealing with Interoperability
  • Virtual Builders Roundtable
    "The Virtual Builders Roundtable is a group of designers, engineers, fabricators, and builders active in the development of virtual building processes and technologies to reduce the risks, costs, and time associated with today's construction environment. The mission of the group is to share knowledge among the members to improve the processes and technology to build virtually by creating 3 and 4D object models to simulate construction of all types of facilities. We also seek to educate the larger community of owners / operators / investors, designers, builders, suppliers, fabricators and specialty contractors about the benefits and implementation of virtual building."
  • ACADIA : Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture
    ACADIA is dedicated to the promotion of communication and critical thinking regarding the use of computers in architecture, planning and building science. The organization's activities include an annual national conference, publications, competitions, and exchange with international sister organizations. The membership includes approximately 200 educators, professionals, and students
  • CumInCAD : Cumulative Index of Computer Aided Design in Architecture
    CumInCAD is a cumulative index of publications about computer aided architectural design. It includes bibliographic information about over 7.300 records from journals and conferences such as ACADIA, CAADRIA, eCAADe, SiGraDi, CAAD futures and others. All papers include full abstracts
  • IAI International
    IAI is an alliance of organizations dedicated to bring about a coordinated change for the improvement of productivity and efficiency in the construction and facilities management industry.
  • AECbytes: Analysis, Research, and Reviews of AEC Technology
    AECbytes is an online publication launched by Dr. Lachmi Khemlani in Nov 2003. It is focused on researching, analyzing, and reviewing technology products and services for the building industry.

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November 19, 2007

SMARTcodes - the shape of things to come...

Building Information Modelling has promised a lot of added-value automation out of a well-constructed object model. After a few years of inflated expectations, it is good to start witnessing an increase in the availability of industrial-quality (as opposed to research-quality) tools targeting the rich data embedded within models. One of these 'tools' is SMARTcodes, an initiative by the International Code Council (a US-body). The ICC has produced a couple of demos intending to show how to "automate code compliance checking":

After registering here, you can participate in a couple of demos: one is labelled 'automatic' where the user theoretically uploads the BIM model (IFC format of course), inputs the location and decides on the code checking engine...The resultant deliverable can be a 'Solibri Model Checker Report' (a PDF document with images, summary table and element compliance list) or a Solibri Model (viewer required). The other demo is labelled 'manual' and relies on the user to input all relevant information into the tool...You can see the section reports being generated in real time and you end up with a printable collated one.

Of course, the automatic version is more BIM-like while the manual version caters for 'model-poor' consultants - an error prone double entry approach if you ask me. It is hard to understand why both approaches fall under the SMART banner - only the automatic approach fulfils the declared mission statement!

In a nutshell, SMARTcodes is a very promising tool indeed and I think it can be extended quite significantly...I look forward to uploading my own model and sifting through the results.

To read a tad more about SMARTcodes, you can start here (PDF Presentation - 967KB) or read the Frequently Asked Questions on ICC's website.

November 19, 2007 |

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