INCLUSION OF TEMPORAL DATABASES WITH INDUSTRY FOUNDATION CLASSES - A Basis for Adaptable Intelligent Buildings

As the basis for analysis and management of heritage assets, 3D laser scanning and photogrammetric 3D reconstruction have been probed as adequate techniques for point cloud data acquisition. The European Directive 2014/24/EU imposes BIM Level 2 for government centrally procured projects as a collaborative process of producing federated discipline-specific models. Although BIM software resources are intensified and increasingly growing, distinct specifications for heritage (H-BIM) are essential to driving particular processes and tools to efficiency shifting from point clouds to meaningful information ready to be exchanged using non-proprietary formats, such as Industry Foundation Classes (IFC). This paper details a procedure for processing enriched 3D point clouds into the REVIT software package due to its worldwide popularity and how closely it integrates with the BIM concept. The procedure will be additionally supported by a tailored plug-in to make high-quality 3D digital survey datasets usable together with 2D imaging, enhancing the capability to depict contextualized important graphical data to properly planning conservation actions. As a practical example, a 2D/3D enhanced combination is worked to accurately include into a BIM project, the length, orientation, and width of a big crack on the walls of the Castle of Torrelobatón (Spain) as a representative heritage building.

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BIM Interoperability Analyses in Structure Design

CivilEng ◽

10.3390/civileng2010010 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 174-192

Author(s):

Alcinia Zita Sampaio ◽

Augusto Martins Gomes

Keyword(s):

Data Transfer ◽

Structure Design ◽

Data Format ◽

Industry Foundation Classes ◽

Standard Data ◽

Transfer Processes ◽

Building Information ◽

Modeling Software ◽

Efficient Level ◽

Alternative Solutions

The building information modelling (BIM) methodology supports collaborative works, based on the centralization of all information in a federated BIM model and on an efficient level of interoperability between BIM-based platforms. Concerning the structure design, the interoperability capacity of the most used software presents limitations that must be identified and alternative solutions must be proposed. This study analyzes the process of transfer of structure models between modeling and structure analysis tools. Distinct building cases were performed in order to recognize the type of limitations verified in the transfer processes concerning two-way data flow between several software. The study involves the modeling software ArchiCAD 2020, Revit 2020, and AECOsim 2019 and the structure analyzes tools SAP 2020, Robot 2020, and ETABS 22020. The transfer processes are realized in two ways: using the native data format; using a universal standard data transfer, the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) format. The level of maturity of BIM in structure design is still relatively low, caused essentially by interoperability problems, but despite the limitations detected, this study shows throughout the development of several building case, that the methodology has clear advantages in the development of the structure project.

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Cache-efficient sweeping-based interval joins for extended Allen relation predicates

The VLDB Journal ◽

10.1007/s00778-020-00650-5 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Danila Piatov ◽

Sven Helmer ◽

Anton Dignös ◽

Fabio Persia

Keyword(s):

Data Structure ◽

Experimental Evaluation ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Temporal Databases ◽

Access Method ◽

Wide Range ◽

Interval Relation ◽

Cache Efficient ◽

Join Algorithms ◽

Better Than

AbstractWe develop a family of efficient plane-sweeping interval join algorithms for evaluating a wide range of interval predicates such as Allen’s relationships and parameterized relationships. Our technique is based on a framework, components of which can be flexibly combined in different manners to support the required interval relation. In temporal databases, our algorithms can exploit a well-known and flexible access method, the Timeline Index, thus expanding the set of operations it supports even further. Additionally, employing a compact data structure, the gapless hash map, we utilize the CPU cache efficiently. In an experimental evaluation, we show that our approach is several times faster and scales better than state-of-the-art techniques, while being much better suited for real-time event processing.

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A Common Approach to Geo-Referencing Building Models in Industry Foundation Classes for BIM/GIS Integration

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information ◽

10.3390/ijgi10060362 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (6) ◽

pp. 362

Author(s):

Junxiang Zhu ◽

Peng Wu

Keyword(s):

Building Information Modeling ◽

Information Modeling ◽

Industry Foundation Classes ◽

Spatial Reference ◽

Reference Information ◽

Building Models ◽

Digital Twins ◽

Gis Data ◽

Gis Integration ◽

Building Information

Previous geo-referencing approaches for building information modeling (BIM) models can be problematic due to: (a) the different interpretations of the term ‘geo-referencing’, (b) the insufficient consideration of the placement hierarchy of the industry foundation classes (IFCs), and (c) the misunderstanding that a common way to embed spatial reference information for IFC is absent. Therefore, the objective of this study is to (1) clarify the meaning of geo-referencing in the context of BIM/GIS data integration, and (2) develop a common geo-referencing approach for IFC. To achieve the goal, a systematic and thorough investigation into the IFC standard was conducted to assess the geo-referencing capability of IFC. Based on the investigation, a geo-referencing approach was established using IFC entities that are common in different IFC versions, which makes the proposed approach common to IFC. Such a geo-referencing approach supports automatic geo-referencing that would facilitate the use of BIM models in GIS, e.g., for the construction of digital twins.

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