Towards Managing Iterative Changes in BIM Collaboration Workflows

8 pages•Published: October 23, 2017

Abstract

Collaboration on Building Information Models (BIMs) requires iterative and distributed processes that make maximum reuse of the information being exchanged directly between models in a platform independent model collaboration environment. BIMs are subject to constant evolution where information is created, coordinated and exchanged concurrently, allowing multiple users to manipulate information whilst requiring the data to be synchronized in a shared data repository. As the information in a BIM grows during an iterative design and production process and even beyond into maintenance, a critical issue is how to manage the iterative changes because of the collaboration operations and workflows that involves various project participants and heterogeneous applications. This paper highlights the overall problem of managing iterative changes in BIMs and discusses various issues and challenges involved in controlling the collaboration transactions on a BIM data repository in a multi-model collaboration environment. This positional paper describes that model matching and comparison strategies are the key to solve the problem of iterative change management, which may have better solutions in other knowledge domain such as software engineering. The future research is exploring Software Source Control (SSC) strategies to devise a signature-based model comparison approach for IFC models that can lead to potential solutions for effective management of collaboration operations with BIMs.

Keyphrases: bim, ifc, model comparison, model server

In: Marsha Lamb (editor). AUBEA 2017: Australasian Universities Building Education Association Conference 2017, vol 1, pages 316-323.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/47Xp
	https://doi.org/10.29007/fd3z

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{AUBEA2017:Towards_Managing_Iterative_Changes,
  author    = {Muhammad Tariq Shafiq and Steve Lockley},
  title     = {Towards Managing Iterative Changes in BIM Collaboration Workflows},
  booktitle = {AUBEA 2017: Australasian Universities Building Education Association Conference 2017},
  editor    = {Marsha Lamb},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Education Science},
  volume    = {1},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2516-2306},
  url       = {/publications/paper/47Xp},
  doi       = {10.29007/fd3z},
  pages     = {316-323},
  year      = {2017}}

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