Welcome to the buildingSMART International Newsletter for May 2022. This edition has links to a number of recordings of recent events and webinars, including the Spring Virtual Summit and the inaugural User Conference. The recordings are all available via our YouTube channel, so please subscribe to stay up to date.
The openBIM Awards Program is still open for new submissions, but the deadline is fast approaching so don't delay!
The Airport Room, Building Room, and Regulatory Room all have surveys out, so please take a few minutes of your time to complete these if you can.
buildingSMART International Announces
the Sad Passing of Richard Petrie
It is with deep sadness that we inform you of the passing of Richard Petrie on April 17th, 2022, following a short illness. Richard was the Chief Executive of buildingSMART International and leaves behind his wife Jane and three adult children, Michael, Maddie, and Lottie.
On behalf of the Board of Directors, management office, and employees, we extend our deepest sympathies to Richard’s family.
With immediate effect, Ian Howell will take over as interim Chief Executive Officer of bSI.
You can read Richard's obituary below and donate to the family's charity of choice.
The buildingSMART International Virtual Summit Spring 2022
The latest buildingSMART International Standards Summit took place from 28th March - 1st April with the theme "Helping clients and users control their digital destiny". The one-week event was well attended with 833 registrants - a truly international community representing 54 countries.
The Summit was comprised of 35 individual sessions, featuring over 100 speakers. The recordings and PDF presentations are now publicly available:
The 2022 openBIM Awards Program is still open for new submissions, with a deadline of 24th May. This year finalists will be invited to the International Standards Summit in Montreal, Canada between 18-21 October 2022.
The 2022 program is host to several new categories as follows:
Design for Buildings
Design for Infrastructure
Construction for Buildings
Construction for Infrastructure
Sustainable Outcomes
There is much more detailed information along with an FAQ on the Awards section of the bSI website. If you have any questions or would like to volunteer for the Jury, please contact awards@buildingsmart.org
Fire Safety Engineering - Call for Project Sponsorship
While BIM has become the standard platform for integrated digital design, the lack of fire safety engineering data standards and tools is having negative effects.
The purpose of this project is to incorporate fire and life safety definitions into the IFC standards to maintain design & analysis data at all stages in an open, connected, digital workflow….where 3D models, calculations, and reviews can be integrated into the “golden thread”.
Use the link below to learn more or to enquire about joining the project / providing project sponsorship.
The IfcSpatialZone ENTITY was introduced in the IFC4 schema for representing the flexible spatial object in the Building Information Model. The traditional IfcSpace ENTITY is defined as representing physically and logically partitioned space. On the other hand, a spatial zone is a non-hierarchical and potentially overlapping decomposition of the project under some functional consideration.
A spatial zone might represent a thermal zone, a construction zone, a lighting zone, or a usable area zone. A spatial zone might have its independent placement and shape representation.
With this survey, the intention is to verify which/what would be the characteristics that would make this Entity more useful.
The Airport Entities project team has produced a survey on Baggage Handling Systems. The survey aims to verify the proposed mapping of airport-specific objects to IFC entities and check its completeness.
Are you an expert in Baggage Handling System and BIM? Then take the survey now!
The Regulatory Room strategy is to engage actors of the regulatory process to support the adoption of openBIM to improve the whole process. To achieve this goal buildingSMART (and we think the global building ecosystem) is tremendously interested in regulated firms and regulatory bodies expectations.
Unsurprisingly, expectations are not the same everywhere, and change over time, so in 2020 we decided to launch a survey to fix a point and discover and analyse a general perception about openBIM adoption in the compliance processes, collecting the points of view of both regulators and regulated industry.
The final goal of the assessment was to find the best messages and communications channels to improve the engagement needed to foster openBIM adoption in regulatory processes.
The Infrastructure Room Steering Committee, led by Tiina Perttula, communicated progress at the bSI Virtual Summit from 28th March 2022:
InfraRoom Roadmap workshop – The bSI German Chapter and the bSI Finland Chapter have both facilitated Roadmap Workshops to gain valuable feedback from the wider community. There are further workshops planned in Italy, UK & Ireland and Australasia.
IRSC aim to conclude consultation with our community and update the IRSC Roadmap with a view to presenting it at the next bSI Summit.
IFC 4.3 is published as a bSI Production Standard. The Infrastructure and Railway Rooms have now concluded their projects to extend IFC for Infrastructure entities. The standard has been submitted and presented to the ISO JWG 12. It is anticipated that the ISO process, to issue the next release of ISO 16739, will conclude in early 2023.
bS USA Webinar: Best Practices with Digital Layout
on Projects Big and Small
In this webinar, join presenter John Tocci Jr who serves as PCL Construction’s VDC Manager, lending his technical and VDC expertise to projects spanning the firm’s Southern California Buildings District.
Installing work accurately is an obvious, but challenging step in any digital project execution. This presentation will review practical workflows in the design model, trade/fabrication modeling, and layout/execution process.
NEXT-generation CDEs to advance the sustainability of the construction industry?
This roundtable featured speakers from buildingSMART International, BSI Group, Oracle Construction and Engineering, Tractebel Engie, and VAMED. The panel of experts discussed the future today:
What works today and what are the challenges? Which values can NEXT-generation CDEs deliver? How do intelligent platforms make clients and users more efficient? How do standards and certifications create more trust and increase productivity? Will CDEs support sustainability requirements?
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.
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