The world needs open standards

Richard Petrie

Chief Executive

buildingSMART International

Enable full benefits

from

digital ways of working

in the

built asset industry

buildingSMART Mission

Open

Neutral

Non-Profit

International

buildingSMART Values

1995 Established

2000 IFC2

2001 IFD ISO

2012 IFC4 + bSDD

2013 IFC ISO

2014 IFC Infrastructure

2015 BCF

2016 Digital Transformation

buildingSMART History

Leadership from 2014

Parent body for Chapters

Professional Management Team

Responsible for three programs

Develops open neutral standards

Delivers open digital solutions

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buildingSMART Who we are

Flow ofinformation

Digitizing the Built Asset Industry

Source: CDDB

Construction ProductivityGrowth remains dramatically low

64.5(87%)

1995 2015

120

0

180

2010

150

2000 2005

140

190

110

130

160

170

200

Construction

Total economy

Manufacturing

100

$1.6 trillion/year!

Source:

Imagining Construction's

Digital Future

Capital Projects and Infrastructure

June, 2016

McKinsey Productivity Sciences

Center, Singapore

State of the IndustryWhere we are today

Fragmented Industry Disconnected Workflows Undefined Processes

Better Collaboration Digital Adoption Open Standards

Who benefitsfrom open standards?

Owners, Public Authorities and Investors

Architects, Engineers and Construction

Product Manufacturers and Assemblers

Facility Managers and Operators

Software Vendors

Educators and Students

Owners, Public Authorities and InvestorsBenefits

• Independent control of your asset

and portfolio data, strategic

data flexibility

• Better whole-life decisions

• Basis for your Digital Twin

• Transparency of key indictors

• Improved quality and cost control

• Save money

• Avoid data lock-in

“Open standards are a prerequisite for us to achieve our

goals of building a digital asset. openBIM is helping us to

liberate the data from the design software making it

available for automatic processes

Participating in the financing, steering and

development of a standard is not only giving us the

opportunity to ensure the final content suits us as an

owner, but is also allows us to exchange experiences and

ideas in the large bSI community.”

Karin Anderson

BIM Manager

Trafikverket

Owner

Open standards enabled:

✓ Focus on whole-life asset

management

✓ Aim to reduce time for

asset managers to quality

assure projects

✓ EURO €700,000

expected savings in 2019

✓ IFC digital driven

processes

Copenhagen AirportAutomated Quality Control

Denmark

“Everyone gets familiar with IFC and the

benefits of open standards. As a result we

are saving money”

Michael Oersted, Copenhagen Airport

Project Case Study IFC Rail

Mission: To set global open and interoperable BIM

standards for the rail industry by extending the IFC

schema to create the “IFC Rail Candidate Standard”

Timeline: April 2018 – October 2019.

International collaboration: 4 bSI Summits and 8 expert panel meetings for project participants

Resources:

• Project leaders and project team

• Expert panel

• Infra Room Administrator

• 24 team members (plus 70+ in-kind contributors)

Funding raised: €2,500,000 +/-

Architect, Engineer and Constructor Benefits

• Independent control of your

project data

• Multiparty and specialist data

exchange capability

• Data continuity across phases

and projects

• Improved client requirements

• Standardized BIM deliverables

• Access to live product data in

design and for purchasing

“We are able to design and create a virtual

building model using the latest openBIM

technologies, delivering exceptional management

and maintenance capabilities during the entire

process.

This was only possible thanks to the

buildingSMART’s open digital data workflows.”

Ernesto Minnucci

Technical Director, Minnucci Associati s.r.l.

Engineering Company

Open standards enabled:

✓ EURO €24 billion

✓ All construction

deliverables in IFC format

✓ 3D Rebar tool developed

with IFC

✓ Automatic exchanges

developed

✓ Model checking

ICOS Group, BYLOR Group and EDVANCE GroupHinkley Point C EPR

United Kingdom

“The idea that IFC was the BIM deliverable

method became agreed by the client due to

its efficiency and final on-site savings”

Véronique Remande, ICOS Groupe

Product Manufacturer and Assembler Benefits

• Early influence over

specification decisions

• New sales channels

• International market access

• Control over your data

• Data assurance

• Regulatory approval and

compliance

“Open and neutral standards allow customers to

retrieve excellent information about the construction

materials they specify, compare or purchase. Open

standards provide an efficient way for a manufacturer to

better get products to market and to identify customer

needs.

We believe buildingSMART is driving the industry to a

more digitized future with supply chains benefiting as a

result.”

Dirk Schaper

CEO

ProMaterial

Construction Technology

Facility Manager and Operator Benefits

“The current version of IFC has a universal

approach to collaboration, realization and operation

of buildings based on open standards...

openBIM forms an essential foundation for

interdisciplinary collaboration between project

actors”

Mikkel Lieberkind,

Project Manager,

MT Højgaard

Civil Engineering Company

• Better whole-life decisions

• Optimized make or buy

• Improved reliability using

multiple data sources

• Automated regulatory approval

and compliance

• Traceability of components

• Basis for your Digital

Twin and IoT placements

Software Vendors Benefits

• Better understanding of user

needs

• Develop new sales channels

• Enhance reputation in the

industry

• International market access

• Maximize market access for

software products

“The greatest benefit of openBIM for one of my

client's projects was that it provided clear and precise

budget projections and savings in optimization.

It also helped to flawlessly exchange BIM

deliverables between different parties over the project

lifecycle.”

Veljko Janjić

CEO and Founder,

BEXEL Consulting

Software Vendor

Open standards enabled:

✓ STREPE a research project

for digital workflows

✓ A project for checking and

archiving data

✓ Communicating the results

with citizens

✓ Seismic and geological data

✓ Data collected from various

BIM tools

ACCA SoftwareStructural E-Permit l

Italy

“This project made us understand the

importance of the openBIM. Data is always

accessible over time, regardless of the

software that produced it”

Michelangelo Cianciulli, ACCA Software

Educators and Students Benefits

“We are using IFC as an important

harmonization and processing step to make

subsets of BIM models available in a GIS

environment…

We could not have done this without openBIM.”

Rudi Stouffs,

Associate Professor,

National University of Singapore

University

• Publishing and reputation

enhancement opportunity

• Advance technical ideas

• Work internationally with a large

community

• Build market awareness for your

programs and work

• Compliance and quality branding

Open standards enabled:

✓ BIM+GIS integration

✓ IFC to cityGML

✓ Geometric and semantic

data integration

✓ Automation

✓ Vendor neutral data

format

✓ Cross-party collaboration

National University of SingaporeIFC2CityGML

Singapore

“Only open standards target towards a

universally agreed on data format. The

approach taken can only unfold its full

potential”Rudi Stouffs,

National University of Singapore

Open digital ways of working deliver:

• Flexibility of choice of technology creates more

value to all stakeholders

• Sustainability helps future proof your business and

control your digital destiny

• Efficiency is realized by enabling a digitalization in

your organization

• Access to new and international suppliers and

markets

• Opportunity for financial performance improvement

delivering short and long-term benefits

Open & Neutral Data Exchanges

Members - Strategic

News!

Members - Multinational

Members - Standard

Italy

Austria

Spain SingaporeBenelux

China

South Korea

Canada

Nordics

Germany

UK&I Australasia

Japan Norway

France Russia Switzerland USA

Chapter Community

Potential Future Chapters

Portugal UAE

Estonia Latvia

Poland

Lithuania

Peru

Brazil

Turkey

SloveniaMexico

Chile Croatia

Hong Kong

Formal Chapter RequestsNewest Chapter

SwedenFinland

Chapters

Partners

In the NewsbuildingSMART and ODA Sign Agreement

This letter of cooperation will ensure:

• Better software testing

• Deeper software implementations

• Broader interoperability

News!

Development ApprovalInitiation Deployed

IFC Rail

Proposal

MVD Energy Simulation

IFC Ports & Waterways

IFC RebarMVD FM Handover

LOXSee the publication

list

IFC precast

IFC Bridge

IFC Land and Site Development

DfMA, lean & offsite

IFC = Industry Foundation ClassesMVD = Model View DefinitionIDM = Information Delivery ManualDfMA = Design for Manufacture and AssemblyLOX=Level of Development/definition/…

Project Progress.

IFC Tunnel

MVD Quantity take off

IDM Model set up

IDM Legal IFC Road

IDM planning e-submissions

Your proposal here!

IDM Toolkit

Fire safety

Common schema

Standardization Post-standardization

Project Proposal

Making Successful StandardsThe role of industry

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When N

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Industry Standardization

Expanded Certification

Project Process

Candidate Standard

Harmonization

Early Certification

Vendor Implementation

Final bSI Standard

Localization

Compliance

User Deployment

• buildingSMART Germany May 2018

• buildingSMART Switzerland May 2019

• buildingSMART Spain June 2019

• buildingSMART Italy September 2019

• buildingSMART Austria Autumn 2019

• buildingSMART Russia December 2019

• buildingSMART Poland March 2020

• buildingSMART Canada 2020

• …

Vectorworks GRAPHISOFT

Professional Certification provides an approved

buildingSMART training course for individuals

Software Certification provides validation for

implementation ons for software vendors

Compliance ProgramProfessional and Software Certification

Managing GrowthOne of the fastest growing standards-making communities

• 10,000 followers per year on LinkedIn

• Over 1,300 attendance at the

Dusseldorf Summit (March 2019)

• 20 active projects

• 8 Industry partnerships

• Worldwide endorsement (WEF & GII)

• 50 members

World Economic ForumAn action plan to accelerate BIM adoption – Feb 2018

“IU companies should support similar

bottom-up consortia to standardize

BIM data exchange …One such

consortium exists – buildingSMART,

which developed the Industry Foundation

Class (IFC), the only open (non-

proprietary) BIM data exchange standard

– but more needs to be done.”

IU = Infrastructure and Urban Development Industry

Global Infrastructure InitiativeRecommendation – Oct 2018

“Create an industry-level group

that sets data and technology

standards to unlock opportunities

presented by the Internet of Things

(IoT), analytics, and artificial

intelligence.”

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