BIM Approach for Smart Infrastructure Design and Maintenance Operations

Abstract

In the age of the Internet-of-Things and Big Data, Building Information Modeling (BIM) is being expanded into sectors for which it was not originally designed, such as the infrastructure sector, and becomes a necessity for the planning and management of smart cities. The digitization of the urban environment, its building and infrastructural heritage and its services is at the center of the concept of smart city, and this appears strongly linked to the use of BIM on an increasingly extended scale as an enabling tool for planning cities that are increasingly intelligent, sustainable, interconnected and above all liveable. In this chapter a creation process for the digitalization of existing roads, as well-known as reverse engineering method, will be shown as follows: a) modeling 3D digital terrain model; b) creating the horizontal alignment, vertical profiles and editing cross-sections; c) modeling the 3D corridor. As a response to long-term development between BIM and road engineering, this chapter will contribute also by offering innovative and practical solutions for integration of road design and pavement analysis, for a better management and optimization of road pavement maintenance.

Towards Bim-Gis Integration for Road Intelligent Management System

“…BIM-GIS integration can improve the quality and quantity information, helping decision-making for those responsible for Operation and Maintenance the infrastructure (O&M) (Abd et al, 2020;Carneiro et al, 2019) and supporting the development of sustainable built environments (Wang et al, 2019). The BIM provides detailed information on each element while the GIS provides an overall vision of the whole and the interactions with its environment (Biancardo et al, 2020c;Sharafat et al, 2021). Furthermore, ICT could be able to provide information to both models and solve some interoperability issues between the two systems (Sharafat et al, 2021).…”