WG 4.2.4 Building Information Modelling (BIM)
Chair: Mohsen Kalantari (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Co-Chair: Michael J. Olsen (Oregon State University, USA)
Developed and promoted by Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry, Building Information Models (BIM) provides the most detailed 3D spatial and semantic information about every building element during the lifecycle of a building. BIM is a 3D digital data space for sharing building information to enable multi-disciplinary collaboration among different actors involved in the development process of buildings. Recent surveys indicate that the BIM-based paradigm brings more productivity gains and long-term benefits. Therefore, this working group aims to promote BIM in IAG and encourage and report innovation in integrating BIM with geospatial engineering. This working group will conduct its activities in close collaborations with other relevant international professional organisations, such as GSDI, ISPRS and FIG.
Major objectives of this WG are to study, and report the use of:
- To promote BIM and raise awareness in geospatial engineering applications
- Integrating 3D mapping technologies and BIM
- Interoperability between and other geospatial formats
- Applications of BIM in indoor navigation, indoor positioning, 3D cadastres
Developed and promoted by Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry, Building Information Models (BIM) provides the most detailed 3D spatial and semantic information about every building element during the lifecycle of a building. BIM is a 3D digital data space for sharing building information to enable multi-disciplinary collaboration among different actors involved in the development process of buildings. Recent surveys indicate that the BIM-based paradigm brings more productivity gains and long-term benefits.
Therefore, this working group aims to promote BIM in IAG and encourage and report innovation in integrating BIM with geospatial engineering. This working group will conduct its activities in close collaborations with other relevant international professional organizations, such as GSDI, ISPRS and FIG.
Major objectives of this working group are to study, and report the use of:
- To promote BIM and raise awareness in geospatial engineering applications
- Integrating 3D mapping technologies and BIM
- Interoperability between and other geospatial formats
- Applications of BIM in indoor navigation, indoor positioning, 3D cadastres
2020–2022 objectives
The objectives of this working group in the next three years are to:
1. Develop an adaptive geospatial engineering specific BIM curriculum
Building Information Modelling (BIM) and digital engineering have begun to shift the way the architecture, engineering and construction industry operates. The geospatial professionals have the opportunity to take a more prominent position in this paradigm shift. The shift is expected to take place exponentially soon. The silo-based engineering approaches will no longer address the needs of this shift. Instead, the need for competencies in collaboration and digital principles are becoming more prominent. This need will make the data management and sharing skills of geospatial professionals critical for the future of engineering. This working item provides a review of the contemporary AEC challenges and recommends an approach to a geospatial specific BIM curriculum design.
2. Highlight disruptive GeoBIM for construction
The productivity and efficiency of the construction sector have been long criticised. Large construction projects typically take 20 per cent longer to finish than scheduled and are up to 80 per cent over budget. Geospatial challenges have been identified as a significant reason that projects are delayed and go over budget. This working item focuses on disruptive geospatial solutions such as LiDAR, UAV-based mapping, GPR, tracking in GPS denied environments that can be integrated into BIM to support stages of a construction project including brief, concept, definition, design, build and commission, hand over as well as operation and maintenance.
Chairs
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Chair
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Co-Chair: Assoc Prof Michael J. Olsen (Oregon State University, USA)
Assistant Chair: Ms Hannah Hubbard (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
Members
Dr Craig Hanock (University of Nottingham, China)
Dr Yelda Turkan (Oregon State University, USA)
Dr Pingbo Tang (Arizona State University, USA)
Mr Armen Dervisevic (Roads and Maritime Services, New South Wales Government, Australia)
Assoc Prof Jack C.P. Cheng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK, China)
Dr Yichuan Deng (South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China)
Dr Robert Kaden (Dresden University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
Mr Josh Plager (BIM Earth Corporation, USA)
Mr Shubhi Harbola (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
The working group aims to deliver scholarly publications related to these two working items. Depending on the level of interests in the working items that we receive via the events and other channels, the working group will decide on the publication outlet (eg, special issues of the journals or edited scholarly book).
Special issues of scholarly journals
Transactions in GIS 2020
Publication 2021
Journal of Spatial Science, Volume 65, 2020
Conferences and workshops
2019
GeoBIM benchmark 2019: intermediate results
Francesca Noardo, Filip Biljecki, Giorgio Agugiaro, Ken Arroyo Ohori, Claire Ellul, Lars Harrie and Jantien Stoter
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W15-47-2019
EuroSDR GeoBIM project: a study in Europe on how to use the potentials of 3D BIM data and 3D Geo data in practice
Francesca Noardo, Claire Ellul, Lars Harrie, Emmanuel Devys, Ken Arroyo Ohori, Perola Olsson and Jantien Stoter
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W15-53-2019
A multi-dimensional analytics platform to support planning and design for liveable and sustainable urban environment
Soheil Sabri, Yiqun Chen, Abbas Rajabifard, Kuay Lim T, Victor Khoo and Mohsen Kalantari
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W15-75-2019
Graph transformation rules for IFC-to-CityGML attribute conversion
Joie Lim, Helga Tauscher and Filip Biljecki
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-4-W8-83-2019
Creating and maintaining IFC-CityGML conversion rules
Helga Tauscher
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-4-W8-115-2019
Quality of BIM-GIS conversion
Filip Biljecki and Helga Tauscher
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-4-W8-35-2019
Introducing level of georeferencing for BIM using Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) [PDF]
Christian Clemen, Hendrik Görne and Tim Kaiser
A BIM-based approach for representation and visualization of 3D cadastral boundaries [PDF]
Jing Sun, Lars Harrie and Jenny Paulsson
Data conversion and linkage to build comprehensive 3D environments [PDF]
James Crawford, Carsten Roensdorf, Jeremy Morley, Rudi Stouffs and Patrick Janssen
2017
BIM and GIS Integration [PDF]
Yan Li and Mitko Aleksandrov
A Digital Built Environment: A coordinated vision for GIS, BIM and Digital Engineering[PDF]
John Mitchell
Comparison of a smart mobile application supported evacuation system and traditional evacuation systems [PDF]
Yasin Ortakci, Umit Atila, Emrullah Demiral, Kasım Ozacar, Ismail Rakip Karas
Strict and automatic mapping of IFC – BIM models into semantically enriched 3D CityGML building models (exterior and interior) [PDF]
Rudi Stouffs
Open Information Exchange Standards for the Integrated Digital Built Environment [PDF]
Jim Plume, Carsten Rönsdorf and Scott Simmons
buildingSMARTInternational and OpenGeospatial Consortium Framework for Collaboration on BIM-GIS Interoperability [PDF]
Jim Plume, Carsten Rönsdorf and Scott Simmons
An ISO Standards Perspective of BIM-GIS Integration [PDF]
Chris Body
Development of BIM/GIS interoperability platform for seamless indoor/outdoor information service [PDF]
Chunjoo Yoon and Changhee Hong
A Conceptual Framework for Multi-Scale Urban Energy Modelling Using 3D Geospatial Technology [PDF]
Soheil Sabri, Behzad Rismanchi, Abbas Rajabifard
Exploring the legal and institutional implications of Australian public policy perspectives towards leveraging BIM-GIS dynamics [PDF]
Ilsa Kuiper and Colin Duffield
BIM-GIS integration as dedicated and independent course for Geoinformatics students – Merits, challenges, and ways forward [PDF]
Ihab Hijazi, Andreas Donaubauer and Thomas H. Kolbe
Upcoming events
BIM/GIS Integration Workshop – a Pre 3D Geoinfo 2020 Workshop – Virtual London – September
Surveying and BIM Classroom, FIG 2021 Working Week – Amsterdam – May. Led by FIG
Past events
1st BIM/GIS integration workshop, Melbourne 2017
2nd BIM/GIS integration workshop, Singapore 2019
A summary of the past BIM/GIS integration workshops can be found on our Publications page.