The BIM-method supports the collaboration between all stakeholders over the whole life-cycle (from planing, building to maintenance) of a building. The collaboration is supported by digital construction models which are enriched with parameters. BIM makes these models easy to access, easy to exchange, share and validate against defined rules and models from other disciplines (e.g. architect, structural, plumbing, electrical engineer). Therefore, BIM promotes collaboration through a transparent communication, supports (cross-disciplinary) model quality checks/verifications and helps with decisions for further planing.
The digital models connect geometrical information (e.g. shape, position, area, volumes, etc.) with none-geometrical information (e.g. material, color, etc.).
- Discipline Specific Model: architectural, structural, geographical
- Coordination Model: combination of discipline specific models for error detection
- Reference Model: e.g. architectural or BIM Inventory Model
- Presentation Model: for visualisation/presentation
Open BIM
buildingSMART
IFC
Industry Foundation Classes is an open and international standard for exchanging digital models (*.ifc, *.ifcxml, *.ifczip) according to SN EN ISO 16739.
BCF
Open standard for exchanging change requests (*.bcf).
Model Checking
Quality Gate
Acceptance criteria to be met in order to move to next step.
Clash Detection
ICE-Session
Integrated Concurrent Engineering Session