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What is Building Information Model (BIM)

Chapter 17
Handbook of Research on Building Information Modeling and Construction Informatics: Concepts and Technologies
is digital data model of graphical, physical and functional characteristics of buildings. Construction and management of buildings and building-elements involves many stakeholders. The complexity of BIM data model is believed to add necessary simplicity for the sharing and management of information over the entire lifecycle of a building.
Published in Chapter:
BIM Integration with Geospatial Information within the Urban Built Environment
Hongxia Wang (University of Salford, UK) and Andy Hamilton (University of Salford, UK)
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-928-1.ch017
Abstract
In the construction industry, BIM is enabling the information sharing and integration practise culture to emerge. Consideration of the geo-location is essential at the design and planning stage for building construction. It is important to integrate BIM with surrounding geo-spatial information which will not only benefit the construction industry in getting site information, but also help urban management in getting building details in the city. This chapter reports the emerging efforts on BIM integration with geospatial information within the urban built environment. The authors have been working on the design and development of the integration framework of BIM and geospatial information. In this framework, a BIM web service, Building Feature Service (BFS), is defined to retrieve building objects and elements information based on OGC’s Web Service. This framework can extend the scope of BIM to the urban built environment to support life cycle information services for both city management and the construction industry.
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Chapter 1
Modelling Concepts for BIM
BIM is an information model of a building (or building project) that comprises complete and sufficient information to support all lifecycle processes, and which can be interpreted directly by computer applications. It comprises information about the building itself as well as its components, and comprises information about properties such as function, shape, material and processes for the building life cycle.
Published in Chapter: Modelling Concepts for BIM; From: Handbook of Research on Building Information Modeling and Construction Informatics: Concepts and Technologies
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Query Support for BIMs using Semantic and Spatial Conditions
A computational representation of a planned or built building. The representation comprises the 3D geometry of the building elements and the spaces, as well as semantic (non-geometric) information, such as element types and material properties. Also there is a rich set of relationships between building elements stored in the building model. A BIM is modeled using object-oriented modeling techniques.
Published in Chapter: Query Support for BIMs using Semantic and Spatial Conditions; From: Handbook of Research on Building Information Modeling and Construction Informatics: Concepts and Technologies
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SIGA3D: Semantic Combination of IFC and GIS to Support Urban Facilities Management
Has been presented recently as a demarcation of the next generation of Information Technologies (IT) and Computer-Aided Design (CAD) for buildings which focus on the production of drawings. BIM is the process of generating, storing, managing, exchanging, and sharing building information in an interoperable and reusable way.
Published in Chapter: SIGA3D: Semantic Combination of IFC and GIS to Support Urban Facilities Management; From: Handbook of Research on E-Business Standards and Protocols: Documents, Data and Advanced Web Technologies
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Chapter 8
Building Information Modeling for Energy Retrofitting
BIM is a process that involves data management that physically and functionally characterizes a building in order to create a digital model that will be used in all stages of a building's evolution at the conception phase until the end of its existence.
Published in Chapter: Building Information Modeling for Energy Retrofitting; From: Retrofitting for Optimal Energy Performance
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Chapter 9
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Smart Visualization, Presentation, and Study of Architecture and Engineering in the Urban Environment: Visualizing City Progress
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Chapter 16
Integrating BIM with Urban Spatial Applications: A VEPS Perspective
Building Information Model is a digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a building often based on CAD models. Construction and management of buildings and building-elements involves many stakeholders. A BIM provides for one logical place for all actual building project data (objects with attributes & interrelations, 3D representations, visualisations etc.) which relevant stakeholders can share and manage during the entire lifecycle of a building.
Published in Chapter: Integrating BIM with Urban Spatial Applications: A VEPS Perspective; From: Handbook of Research on Building Information Modeling and Construction Informatics: Concepts and Technologies
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Chapter 3
Digitally-Enabled Design Management
A computerised entity which structures and holds information as a representation of a designed or physical asset (ISO 19650-1:2018).
Published in Chapter: Digitally-Enabled Design Management; From: Handbook of Research on Driving Transformational Change in the Digital Built Environment
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