Welcome to the buildingSMART International Newsletter for March 2023, delivered to you by Céline Bent, Compliance Director of bSI.
Tickets are available for the upcoming International Standards Summit, which will take place in Rome from 27-30 March 2023. We are, however, sorry to say that Gala dinner tickets are now sold out. There is a waitlist which can be found in the tickets section of the website.
The Summit brings together a huge community of experts focused on developing solutions and standards for a better-built asset industry. At the event, there will be keynotes, roundtables, masterclasses, hackathons, Room sessions, a national conference, a closing plenary, and much more! Below you will find some of the sessions happening. Don't forget to book your place!
There are also other key announcements in the community, including some standards voting updates, Chapters news and more!
Céline (R) with Boet (M) and Paul (L)
Surf's up!
Throughout 2023, a different member of the bSI team will be producing this newsletter each month. A great chance to get to know the team a bit more...
February's newsletter is
brought to you by:
Céline Bent
Position at buildingSMART:
Compliance Director
Time with the company:
8 months
Based in:
The Netherlands
Hobbies:
Surfing, and growing and cooking food from my garden! 🏄 🍄
A little about me:
My partner and I just started the renovation of a little house that we bought near the beach in South West France, where we plan to live full time once it’s finished. To make it as sustainable and self-sufficient as possible, we are using bio-based materials for insulation, installing a heat-pump, solar panels, a compost and rainwater collection system and try to preserve as much as possible of the original quality, materials and vegetation of the building and garden.
Together with our construction manager and engineer were are using 3D scanning technology and IFC to capture and integrate all information along the way and make the process go as smooth as possible. Fingers crossed!
Tickets and Sponsorship are Available Now!
The buildingSMART International Summit will take place in Rome between the 27th – 30th of March 2023. This event is focused on “Delivering a Diverse and Sustainable Future with openBIM. After recent feedback and some team brainstorming, there will be some new topics and session types in Rome and the agenda will be published on the event website soon. If you don't yet have your ticket, please register below.
We would like to thank the companies who have signed up so far to be represented at the event and are delighted to present them to you here.
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The buildingSMART International Standards Summit will take place in Rome between the 27th – 30th of March 2023. This event brings together the international openBIM community to help shape the standards and services that ensure a more sustainable, productive, and collaborative future for the built asset industry. The event is designed for professionals that want to improve the industry by sharing best practices, open data standards, and finding better ways of working together for a brighter future. This event is focused on “Delivering a Diverse and Sustainable Future with openBIM”.
Some sessions from the event can be found below.
Opening Day: 27th March 2023
Sessions and topics
Opening Keynotes and bS Talks
Industry Pioneers Shaping the Future with openBIM
Digital Twins: The Three Horizons
A Strategic View from Asset Owners
Day 2: 28th March 2023
Sessions and topics include
What is buildingSMART?
Shared topic: Sustainability
Shared Room Topic: ISO 19650, ISO, CEN
Masterclass: ZOOM in on IDS
'Ticket to openBIM' Game: Presentation of Software Tools to be Used
Italian Chapter Strategy and Future Goals
Workshop: bSDD Part 1 - Let's build a data dictionary
Royal HaskoningDHV first global consulting engineers in the Netherlands to embrace the buildingSMART Professional Certification programme
From left to right: Carlita Vis, Technical & Innovations Director at Royal HaskoningDHV, Anton van der Sanden, Global Director Mobility & Infrastructure and Director Netherlands at Royal HaskoningDHV, Paul Bos, Board Member buildingSMART Benelux, Celine Bent, Compliance Director at buildingSMART International, Rob Roef, Chair of the Board at buildingSMART Benelux en Jugal Makwana, Global Director Digital Engineering at Royal HaskoningDHV at the signing of the agreement.
Royal HaskoningDHV signed an agreement with buildingSMART Benelux to join the buildingSMART Professional Certification programme. By integrating the curriculum of buildingSMART in its Digital Academy, Royal HaskoningDHV continues to invest in Building Information Modelling (BIM) knowledge, skills, and competences.
The Finnish Parliament approved laws that reduce construction emissions and promote digitalization
Finnish Parliament passed the Construction Act to come into effect in January 2025 that mandates One of the significant implications of this new legislation is that a BIM in IFC 4.0.2.1 format will be a mandatory requirement for the building permit. Moreover, the project has to deliver an as-built model in IFC 4.0.2.1 format before it passes the final inspection at the end of the project. In practical terms, this means that all projects in Finland will be modeled using IFC.
A number of community proposals are out for vote and can be accessed via the 'Standards Committee Consultation' page, which takes information directly from the projects. Follow the link below to learn more.
There is a variety of votes currently out there in the community with access done via the open and live website that takes information directly from the projects. You can learn more by clicking the link below.
Following its release in December 2022, ETIM International is pleased to announce the publication of ETIM 9.0 in the buildingSMART Data Dictionary (bSDD). Indeed, a milestone for both the ETIM model and buildingSMART as driven change-makers in the digital transformation of the built asset industry, but how exactly will this impact the sector? Time to catch up with Léon van Berlo, Technical Director of buildingSMART International and Jeroen van der Holst, Community Director of ETIM International.
Publishing of the bSI Technical Report on BIM & Building Energy Modelling (BEM) Workflows and Data Interoperability
Almost 40 percent of total global CO₂ emissions are caused by various contributors in the built asset industry, a majority of which (80%) comes from existing buildings with poorly designed, constructed, and/or maintained envelopes. In the EU alone, 36% of total greenhouse gas emissions come from buildings, a majority of which (75%) are not designed to effective energy efficiency standards. buildingSMART International (bSI) is convinced that digital ways of working combined with open standards and advanced model-centric tools and workflows can make valuable contributions to sustainability and resource conservation in the construction industry. To address and bring the domains of building information modelling (BIM) and building energy modelling (BEM) together, a bSI Technical Report was developed to lay the groundwork for finding practical, open, standardized solutions for getting the right information into the right hands at the right time.
buildingSMART is pleased to announce a new member for March 2023:
Standard Member: Track Machines Connected Gesellschaft
Track Machines Connected Gesellschaft m.b.H (‘tmc’) is an innovative railway digitalization leader that applies multi-disciplinary sciences to create unique software and hardware solutions. Founded in Austria, headquartered in Linz, and with subsidiary Vienna and Delhi offices, tmc employs over 100 of the world’s brightest scientists, developers, and railway digitalization enthusiasts. Learn more at www.tmconnected.com
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