Welcome to the buildingSMART International Newsletter for August 2021.
We are delighted to announce that tickets are on sale for the upcoming virtual summit at an early bird rate! This event will again bring together the whole community from the built asset industry.
The past month has been packed full of webinars, all of which are now available on-demand. Once again there are new episodes in the Digital Twins Podcast and in the new series of Myth Busters.
There is a postponement announcement for the InfraBIM Open event and more news from the community.
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Early Bird Tickets are Live!
The buildingSMART Virtual Summit Autumn 2021 takes place from Monday 27th September - Friday 8th October and you can take advantage of a 15% saving on your ticket from now until Sunday 29th August.
A limited number of sponsorship opportunities are still available - if you would like to sponsor the event, please email the events team at: summits@buildingsmart.org.
Learn about the latest version of BCF 3.0 from the team and find out how this industry service is helping improve collaboration on projects in this on-demand webinar.
This short 30-minute webinar included topics such as:
What is BCF? How does it work in practical workflows?
What are the new features/issues fixed in version 3.0?
Overview of how this fits into a broader picture of API developments and buildingSMART Solutions
Where to find informational material, e.g. videos, documentation, examples, etc.
The Construction Operation Building information exchange (COBie) is an information delivery specification often typically delivered at the end of a project. However, the goal of COBie is to highlight how handover information can be captured and delivered during design and construction saving both time and money compared with traditional handover methods.
Learn more about what it means to be a COBie master with this blog.
The next meeting of the General Assembly of Implementers (which has replaced the ISG - Implementers Support Group) will take place on:
Monday 6th, Tuesday 7th and Wednesday 8th September, 11am - 3pm CEST
The agenda is available below, and you must register in advance in order to receive the meeting passcode enabling you to join (one registration gives access to all 3 days of meetings). Please note that these meetings are of a technical nature.
This is your chance to present at the buildingSMART Virtual Summit Autumn 2021!
Simply submit your concept or idea via the link below, and if it is voted to the top of the leader board you will be invited to present during a session of ‘openBIM Marketplace’ presentations on Tuesday 28th September.
Even if you don’t wish to present yourself, be sure to check it out and vote for your favorite proposals - everyone is entitled to 5 votes.
Airports need to have clearer knowledge and understanding of critical systems, assets, data and information to make better decisions. Airports do not always know what entities, types, properties, and quantities to choose while working with critical airport object classes. The creation of clear agreements within the airport community will allow for airports to focus on the necessary parts of the IFC schema, maximizing the value throughout the whole lifecycle of assets and reduce inconsistencies and redundancies.
buildingSMART International is calling on industry sponsorship to fund the Airport Entities project.
buildingSMART USA is hosting a webinar series covering technical and industry topics. The webinars take place on the second Wednesday of each month and recordings of the first two webinars are available now:
'Meet the New buildingSMART USA Technical Committee' took place in June featuring technical leaders Jeffrey W. Ouellette and Dr. Dennis Shelden.
'openBIM: An Owner’s Perspective' was hosted by Dr. Calvin Kam in July, who was joined by guest speaker Charles Matta.
The next webinar is later today (Wednesday 11th August) and covers 'The buildingSMART Data Dictionary (bSDD) Service & US national standard content (USDD)'. Join Dr. Aaron Costin, leader of the USDD Working Group, as he walks the community through the proposal for a US national standard data dictionary (the USDD) governed by bS-USA and its members.
OGC Seeking Sponsors for a new IDBE Pilot linking Geospatial
and Building Information Models
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), together with buildingSMART International (bSI) invite organizations to express their interest in sponsoring the OGC Integrated Digital Built Environment Pilot.
The Pilot will explore, through real-world use cases, the current state-of-the-art in geospatial and Building Information Model (BIM) data integration and forge a path for better-integrated solutions. Responses are due September 30, 2021.
Due to the uncertainties generated by the 4th wave of covid-19 and its Delta variant in France (whose contamination rate is increasing very rapidly) and in order to avoid last-minute travel restrictions or bans, the organizers have no choice but to postpone the InfraBIM Open congress to 10-12 January 2022.
buildingSMART International's Podcast
Join Aidan Mercer, Marketing Director at bSI, as he speaks to more prominent figures from the industry in the next episodes of the Digital Twins Podcast. Below follows a summary of the new episodes available, which you can listen to on either Buzzsprout or Spotify by clicking the respective links below.
Hear from Huw about his career, starting as an architect and moving into software.
Learn what a rhythmic gymnastics center in Moscow, the world’s second-tallest skyscraper, and a Washington, DC-based school of the arts all have in common!
Hear from Rahul about his journey and how Bricsys is expanding around the globe. Find out how important IFC is to Bricsys and the varying applications developed by a strong developer team.
The latest WGIC Newsletter featured an article from buildingSMART International. You can view the whole Newsletter or go directly to the article below.
There 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.
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