1. Current situation and standards
All too often today, projects designed using BIM are still no more than a simple graphic representation with little technical content.
CAD tools, or BIM as they are known, are first and foremost drawing tools, which publishers have supplemented with semantic fields. All have more or less adopted a common library: wall, slab, roof, column, beam, staircase, door, window...
Figure 1 shows an example of how to represent a wall object in a CAD tool.
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Current situation and standards
Implementation in IFC Standard Case (IFC semantics) – Object models Wall – Floor – Roof
Bibliography
- (1) - CELNIK (O.), LEBÈGUE (E.), NAGY (G.) - BIM et maquette numérique – - Pour l'architecture, le bâtiment et la construction (Eyrolles 2015).
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Websites
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Mediaconstruct, association representing BuildingSMART in France
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BuildingSMART Standards
https://www.buildingsmart.org/compliance/software-certification/
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Events
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BIM World, Annual exhibition
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bSI Summits, International BuildingSMART Standards Summit
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buildingSMART France, BIM agenda...
Standards and norms
- « Industry Foundation Classes » : standard d'échange d'information d'un projet de construction. - (EN ISO 16739) - 2013
- in design – Properties of products and systems used in construction – Definition of properties, methodology for creating and managing properties - prEN ISO 23386 -
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