Product modeling standards for the building and construction industry: past, present and future

Tolman, F.P.

doi:10.1016/s0926-5805(98)00073-9

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“…DWG and DGN) are considered as fixed schemas, and accounting for the ever-expanding developments in various industries like piping, mechanical, electrical and other building systems in these formats would result in very large-size files and uninterpretable formats. Therefore, new initiatives emerged for domain-specific data exchange in the product model category which their overview has been provided by Tolman (1999) and Karimi and Akinci (2010). Some of these developments were later combined as part of a more comprehensive set of ISO standards.…”

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Spatial Information in Support of 3d Flood Damage Assessment Of Buildings at Micro Level: A Review

Amirebrahimi

Rajabifard

Sabri

et al. 2016

ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:Floods, as the most common and costliest natural disaster around the globe, have adverse impacts on buildings which are considered as major contributors to the overall economic damage. With emphasis on risk management methods for reducing the risks to structures and people, estimating damage from potential flood events becomes an important task for identifying and implementing the optimal flood risk-reduction solutions. While traditional Flood Damage Assessment (FDA) methods focus on simple representation of buildings for large-scale damage assessment purposes, recent emphasis on buildings' flood resilience resulted in development of a sophisticated method that allows for a detailed and effective damage evaluation at the scale of building and its components. In pursuit of finding the suitable spatial information model to satisfy the needs of implementing such frameworks, this article explores the technical developments for an effective representation of buildings, floods and other required information within the built environment. The search begins with the Geospatial domain and investigates the state-of-the-art and relevant developments from data point of view in this area. It is further extended to other relevant disciplines in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction domain (AEC/FM) and finally, even some overlapping areas between these domains are considered and explored.

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Spatial Information in Support of 3d Flood Damage Assessment Of Buildings at Micro Level: A Review

Amirebrahimi

Rajabifard

Sabri

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ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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“…ATLAS was funded in 1994 to develop semantic models for technical building projects with sizeable plant requirements (Tolman, 1999). This system addressed four layers of information -product, process, resource and control -but lacked support for versioning, user roles, recording of design intent and change notification (Rezgui et al, 1996).…”

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“…While the resulting information transfers are often less robust in comparison, they provide a mechanism by which otherwise incompatible AEC software can be integrated (Watson, 2011). The Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) constitute one of the more heavily used of these standards, and perhaps the most well-known AEC derivative of the STEP framework (Boddy, et al, 2007;Tolman, 1999). This non-proprietary specification was first published in 1997 by the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI) and is currently administered by the IAI's successor organisation, buildingSMART (Björk & Laakso, 2010;buildingSMART, 2013).…”

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“…Support for the project diminished, however, once the benefits of the general systems model were found to be minimal (Tolman, 1999).…”

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“…Uptake was limited by its reliance on a complete set of product model definitions and engagement by the majority of the target audience to guarantee its usefulness (Tolman, 1999).…”

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Product modeling standards for the building and construction industry: past, present and future

Cited by 75 publications

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Energy simulation for decision support in early architectural design

Configuration Views from PLM to Building Lifecycle Management

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