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Tokyo conference welcomes international speakers On 18 October, a buildingSMART conference was held in Tokyo to coincide with the week of meetings. The event was opened by Professor Toshio Ojima (president, Building Maintenance and Management Centre), followed by Deke Smith (US), Inhan Kim (Korea) and John Mitchell together with Wayne Eastley (Australasia). Local speakers Yoichi Itai and Kouji Muramatsu covered BIM in relation to education and design.
Process Room
The Process Room, meanwhile, concentrated on how to benefit from using open BIM during design, construction and operations. New tools were showcased, including the BIM Collaboration Format (BCF). Appropriate to the venue, a presentation was given on Japanese initiatives using open standards. Examples of IDM (Information Delivery Manual) were aired, showing ways of specifying information exchange, for example in FM. One of the most significant decisions reached by the Process Room was that buildingSMART should offer accreditation of third-party data validation services. This means that users that have defined their data exchange as IDM in the future could be able to verify that they receive the information they asked for, says Jan Karlshj, who leads the Process Room. This will increase the quality in data exchange. Its similar to wysiwyg or What You See Is What You Get, but here transformed into What You Get Is What You Specified wygiwys. Other decisions centred around the need for new developments to adhere to buildingSMART standards and secure recognition. Two areas were identified as high priorities for the use of BIM asset management
Product Room
The Product Room held an operational review and looked at the topic of structured product data from many angles: user requirements, tools and technologies, use cases and prospects for making the transition to standardised product data. It was clear that while local content developments were valuable, the international harmonisation of product/system properties was necessary for interoperability. There was confidence, too, that software developers would ultimately recognise open BIM, despite their proprietary systems. Product Room members agreed to establish a pilot project to assess product/system attributes in the buildingSMART Data Dictionary (bSDD), with contributions from at least three countries, using an acoustic ceiling for the project. Following on from this, work will be done to identify potential improvements to the process of content creation and to make the business case for development of
and building programming (or scheduling) and five chapters will be involved in defining the business case. The Process Room has also set itself the task of reviving work on international BIM guidelines, as a precursor to an international standard, and four chapters will be involved. Contractual issues and educational material were identified as important topics for the next meeting. The buildingSMART standard IFC4 is soon to become an ISO standard and plans were made to publicise the event and encourage roll-out of the standard.
A list of the resolutions and presentations from the meetings are available at http://iug.buildingsmart.com/resources ITM and User Group ITM celebrated its 50th meeting in Tokyo a milestone in its long and productive history. ITMs technical roadmap to 2016 puts a strong emphasis on getting open BIM more widely adopted, and the UK government BIM programme is providing a strong impetus. The International User Group also met, and Kjell Ivar Bakkmoen takes over from Jns Sjgren as chairman of IUG.
Version 2 was the first-ever consensus-based standard for use in the US, says Deke Smith, executive director of the buildingSMART Alliance (bSa), which operates within the US National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS). And other countries are showing an interest in using NBIMS as the basis for their own standards. NIBS and the bSa co-ordinated the work.
Washington
The U.S. Department of Defense needed a new office building to accommodate 6,400 employees in the Washington area. It opted for a site in nearby Alexandria, Va, close to Interstate 395. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers managed the project, through its New York District, for the end-users, Washington Headquarters Service.
Mark Center
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The Corps of Engineers was one of the parties involved in developing COBie. It specified the use of Alexandria both COBie and BIM for each facility within this mega-project, known as the Mark Center. The general contractor, Clark Construction Group, gave two full-time engineers the job of managing COBie and BIM. As the project progressed, information was extracted from the various BIMs and used to populate the COBie spreadsheets, covering architectural, mechanical and electrical data. The contractor subsequently added document identification references, and the project team bar-coded many building components to link them to the component data and documentation. There were a number of learning points, together with issues that the COBie development team has set about resolving. But this was the Corps first large-scale implementation of COBie, and the Mark Center was completed in August 2011, 37 days ahead of schedule. Mark Center with Interstate 395 in foreground Source: U.S. Department of Defense
Source: William East, Corp of Engineers Pilot COBie (see NIBS website)
Profile
John Mitchell was founding chairman of buildingSMART Australasia in 1997. He has had two periods in office 1997 2000 and November 2004 to the present and brings varied experience to the role. experience of A Tasmanian childhood
John was born in Adelaide and grew up in Hobart. His father, an arch dams engineer, decided that John should be an architect. On matriculation, he was too young to go up to university, so he spent a year in the office of Bush Parkes Shugg and Moon. His boss and mentor, Jim Moon, had worked for Hansen & Schlegels practice in Copenhagen in the 1950s. I can still remember Jims immaculate drawings of the Tivoli Concert Hall he would show me as he taught me pencil and ink drafting, John recalls. How technology has changed since I started.
On his return to Australia in 2004, a spell with Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of New South Wales followed. He introduced a new BIM-based course, which was probably the first multidisciplinary team course in BIM using many IFCcompliant tools and the model server from Jotne.
his career; the complexities of this building type and the special interaction with users in the briefing phases highlighted the potential of architectural computing. John was the first Australian user of the BDS System, a 3D software package from Applied Research of Cambridge. The practice used another program TOPAZ (developed at Australias research organisation, CSIRO) on a number of master planning projects to optimise the configuration of hospitals. At this time he gained a diploma in architectural computing from the University of Sydney under computing guru John Gero. John left the practice in 1985 to set up his own practice and concentrate on computing; a defining project was the redevelopment of the Cockle Bay site for Sydneys bicentenary. Here he integrated seven different CAD system drawings into a single 2D database a steep introduction to CAD formats and interoperability. Yet this was a clear demonstration of the potential of multidisciplinary data and the Darling Harbour Database became relied upon by the master contractor to manage the complicated fast-track development of the site.
Conclusion
Intriguingly, he reveals that one of his passions is the Akkadian language, once spoken in ancient Mesopotamia. Research has uncovered building contracts in Assyria documented on cuneiform tablets a far cry from the BIM-based contracts of today and tomorrow.
Changes of direction
As recession struck the region, John closed his practice in 1992 and later joined the firm of Woods Bagot as global CAD manager. From there it was a short step but a long journey to join Graphisoft in Hungary. The move in 2001 to Budapest and Europe was another career milestone for me, he says. He wrote Graphisofts first IFC Guide and participated in EC construction research programmes. He met and worked with Europes top practitioners, construction companies, academics and IFC software developers.
And back to Oz
On his return to Australia, he joined Lawrence Nield, forming a new practice, specialising in health facility planning and design. He was the project director for a new 200-bed hospital at Mount Druitt in western Sydney. The project was a key
(Above top): Cockle Bay, Sydney; (middle and bottom) Mount Druitt hospital entrance and exterior
BCF report
In September, Nick Nisbet buildingSMART Internationals IFCXML co-ordinator issued a report, Schema Adoption and BIM Collaboration Format, which was commissioned by bSIs ExCom. The report, which is released as a document for review, considers open BIM Collaboration Format (oBCF) an XML schema developed outside buildingSMART by software companies Tekla and Solibri with DDS. Schema Adoption and BIM Collaboration Format is intended for buildingSMARTs technical community; details from Nick Nisbet, nn@buildingsmart.org.uk
BuildingSMART International ExCom Chair: Patrick MacLeamy Deputy chairs: ivind Rooth and Rasso Steinmann Treasurer: Jns Sjgren IUG chair: Kjell Ivar Bakkmoen ITM chair: Francois Grobler Members: Alain Maury and Deke Smith Secretary/business manager: Christopher Groome Newsletter & communications Editor: Betzy Dinesen Designer: Jane Thompson Contact points francois.grobler@usace.army.mil (technical management) rasso.steinmann@steinmann-consult.de (implementation and certification) tl@aec3.com (Thomas Liebich, IFC matters) kjell.ivar.bakkmoen@helse-sorost.no (user group) rogerjgrant@gmail.com (Product Room and bS Data Dictionary) jan@karlshoej.com (Jan Karlshj, Process Room and IDM) cg@buildingsmart.org.uk (Chris Groome, bSI matters generally) warwick@drshunt.freeserve.co.uk (Warwick Hunt, website matters) beryl.garcka@b-r-t.co.uk (finance and administration) betzy.dinesen@btinternet.com (newsletter)