buildingSMART International Newsletter October 2023
This month, we review the recent buildingSMART Standards Summit in Lillestrøm, Norway. We are also pleased to share information about the next event in Valencia, Spain, on 12-15 March 2024, for which sponsorship is available now.
You can join members of the bSI team Artur Tomczak, Aidan Mercer, and Léon van Berlo at some upcoming events - SpeckleCon and London Build Expo 2023 - both are free to attend. Details of these events (and more), including how to register, can be found below.
The openBIM Awards 2023 winners have been announced following a successful Awards Ceremony at the Summit, and a new "Maritime Domain" has been launched. We also welcome a new developing Chapter and several new members in this and recent months - see the bottom part of the newsletter to learn about who they are.
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...
October's newsletter is
brought to you by:
Artur Tomczak
Position at buildingSMART:
bSDD Product Manager
Time with the company:
10 months
Based in:
Oslo, Norway
(but originally from Poland)
Hobbies:
Wind/kitesurfing, hiking, skiing, freediving 🌊🚶⛷️
A little about me:
Previously, I worked as a computational engineer automating tedious structural design work, until I realised we rarely optimize for the sustainability of buildings. In 2021, my supportive partner and I moved to Norway so I could pursue a PhD in digital support for circular building design. In our spare time, we enjoy Norwegian nature, cycling and hiking. When not travelling, I help to restore Oslofjord by freediving.
I joined the team of buildingSMART International as bSDD Product Manager when I realised that technology is here to help us, but it alone won't save us from the climate emergency. We need collective effort and agreement on how to apply it.
Join Artur Tomczak at SpeckleCon
Join Artur at SpeckleCon on Tuesday 14th November, for his presentation 'Give your data meaning using Speckle and bSDD'.
This free online conference, now including one dev day, will focus on how to unlock data to fuel collaboration, automation, and connectivity across all design workflows. Over two days, participate in talks and workshops with fellow designers, coders, and entrepreneurs. Together, explore and build the tools and workflows you need to deliver and create value at scale - pushing the boundaries of design with data-driven workflows and unprecedented connectivity!
Why are they doing this? "Data is at the heart of AEC: vendors are increasingly locking it in, and it’s down to us to build an open, modern ecosystem that delivers for all - let’s join forces!"
buildingSMART International Standards Summit - Lillestrøm 23
The buildingSMART International Standards Summit - Lillestrøm 2023 recently concluded, having addressed the theme “Digital Products and the openBIM Workflow”. The event featured:
Sponsorship packages for the next buildingSMART Summit to be held in Valencia, Spain are available now. View the packages by clicking or scanning the QR code below. To sign up or for any enquiries, please contact dan.little@buildingsmart.org.
openBIM Awards 2023: Winners Announced
buildingSMART International is delighted to announce the full list of winners and special mentions from the openBIM Awards 2023.
All the finalists in this year’s program presented their projects during the buildingSMART International Standards Summit in Lillestrøm, Norway, on Wednesday 20th of September. An elite jury deliberated following each set of presentations to select a winner from each category. A total of ten winners and five special mentions were announced at a live awards ceremony that evening.
This episode was recorded during the buildingSMART International Summit in Norway when Antony Oliver sat down with Patrick MacLeamy to talk about the history of buildingSMART, his personal journey and the role of digital standards and services. You can listen to the full episode below.
Would you like to learn more about the Strategic Roadmap developed by bSI? There is now a dedicated webpage with next steps as the vision of buildingSMART of the seamless exchange of trusted information across the built environment ismet.
Addressing these challenges demands both optimised decision-making and increased automation across the project lifecycle. In turn, this requires the ability to fuse together project data from all sources to create comprehensive and trusted information – in a machine-interpretable format – and to retain and build on this information throughout the life of the project. buildingSMART establishes the open digital standards and services that allows this to happen.
The latest General Assembly of Implementers meeting took place in Vélizy-Villacoublay, France, on 30-31 August. The two-day meetings were sponsored and supported by Dassault Systèmes.
Recordings from the two days have been published on bSI's YouTube channel:
The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th February 2024, sponsored by Oracle and hosted at the Oracle Innovation Lab just outside Chicago, USA.
In-person registration for this event is now open:
The Infrastructure Domain Steering Committee (IDSC) is holding an Industry Forum for the bSI community on 17th and 18th October 2023. This is an opportunity for you to hear from the IDSC on their plans for the development of the Infrastructure Domain (ID) over the next 5 years and, if you wish, to actively participate in the activities and projects set out in the ID Roadmap.
The 2023 to 2027 Infrastructure Domain Roadmap was presented at the recent bSI Standards Summit in Lillestrom, Norway. It includes initiatives and project proposals to implement the use of IFC 4.3 in real-world infrastructure projects as well as further development of standards and technical solutions that will enhance the use of digitalization in the built-asset industry.
Topics include Asset Operations Handover, IFC and Geospatial for Infrastructure, Model as a Legal Document, bSDD for Infrastructure, role of InfraBIM in delivering digital twins, Infra Extension projects for Tunnel, Bridge, Ports, and much more as set out in the Roadmap-on-a-Page graphic above.
So, if you want to hear about these exciting plans or, better still, participate and/or sponsor some of them, please join the IDSC on the 17th or 18th of October to hear more. You can register your interest and obtain the Industry Forum call details using the link below. Two calls are taking place in different time zones to assist with global coverage.
buildingSMART International is a proud partner of London Build Expo 2023!
Join Marketing Director Aidan Mercer and Technical Director Léon van Berlo on Wednesday 15th November: Aidan will moderate a panel at 14:00 BST discussing "Digital Transformation in Megaproject Construction: Leveraging BIM, IoT and AI" and Léon will lead a workshop at 17:00 BST on "The openBIM Ecosystem".
The UK's biggest Festival of Construction features a jam-packed two days of incredible content with 500+ inspiring speakers across 8 conference stages and you can register for FREE tickets to attend (Nov 15th & 16th, Olympia London):
buildingSMART International is pleased to announce the "Maritime Domain" has been launched, advancing work done under the "Ports and Waterways" project.
The new Maritime Domain will combine stakeholders from around the world, including China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), Royal Haskoning DHV and Cardiff University, with more to follow, to advance efforts done during the IFC 4.3 Ports and Waterways shared schema elements project. With IFC 4.3 in the Final Draft International Standard (FDIS) process for ISO, this timely announcement will ensure a dedicated working group will focus on developing projects to enhance standards and services for this new domain.
buildingSMART International is pleased to announce that Serbia has been formally approved as a “Developing Chapter” by the Board at the International Standards Summit in Lillestrøm, 18-21 September 2023.
The Board's approval follows a successful submission demonstrating the competency and strategic vision of the Chapter, backed by an existing national ecosystem with strong industry engagement. The application was submitted by the 'Association BIM Serbia', which will be the founding entity for the Chapter. You can read the full press release below.
We are excited to introduce five new members who have all joined bSI within the last two months. Please find their profiles below and join us in welcoming them to the community.
Schindler is a leading provider of sustainable and smart urban mobility. Together with their customers, they help organize cities: by moving people and goods, and connecting vertical and horizontal transportation systems. They engineer vertical mobility to make urban spaces more comfortable, inclusive, and sustainable. Since their founding in Central Switzerland in 1874, Schindler have been pioneering new technologies and driving innovation. Behind their success are more than 69,000 employees in over 100 countries, serving customers from more than 1,000 branch offices worldwide, running production sites in eight countries, and six R&D facilities around the world. https://group.schindler.com/en.html
SierraSoft is a company that develops and markets BIM software solutions for the sectors of land surveying, infrastructure design and construction. Based in Italy, SierraSoft products are used in more than 15 countries by surveyors, architects, engineers, engineering companies, architecture companies, construction companies, research institutes, public bodies. www.sierrasoft.com
ORBITS Engineering Firm is a Civil Engineering, Management Consulting, and Business Services company based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This member is the first member from KSA. https://www.orbitseng.com/
LeapThought is an enterprise company that builds next generation and deep tech solutions for AEC and Productivity. Founded in 2011, LeapThought has been expanding globally with offices in Auckland, Sydney, Singapore, India and the USA and serving customers spanning transportation, defense, utilities, AEC companies, regulatory authorities, commercial and residential property developers and healthcare. www.leapthought.com
CERTI is a technologically based institution whose purpose since 1984 is to “contribute in an important manner to the competitiveness of companies and the sustainable development of Brazil, by helping to develop a consistent and dynamic ecosystem of innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship.” CERTI, having accumulated years of experience in entrepreneurship, design, and manufacturing of hardware and software has been guided by the concepts of quality, agility, innovation, responsibility and providing value to constantly dedicate itself to innovation and R&D. www.certi.org.br/en/
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