Welcome to the buildingSMART International Newsletter for June 2020. This edition covers a full wrap-up of the buildingSMART Virtual Summit 2020 which saw over 63 hours of material delivered as part of the Solutions and Standards Program.
There is also an update from the International Council, including materials that are now available. There are some important updates to some key projects including IFC Rail and the IFC Infrastructure Deployment projects as well as opportunities to join Expert Panels and other member-related webinars.
There is just three weeks left to submit for a buildingSMART Award for 2020. Don't miss out on your chance and submit today.
The buildingSMART Virtual Summit 2020
buildingSMART International has just completed the Virtual Summit 2020. There was a positive response to this event and would like to extend our thanks to the whole community. We had over 10,000 registered for 38 online webinars delivering around 63 hours of material. We've made all videos available as on-demand content on our video channel.
During these challenging times, it has been important for the community to stick together and at buildingSMART, we have experienced a heightened need for the work we do. We will continue to deliver the solutions and standards needed to transform the built asset industry.
Richard Petrie, Chief Executive, bSI said "I'm delighted we were able to put this event on at such short notice and open up the work that we do. The breadth and reach of the virtual summit has allowed us to communicate about our work and has clearly been well received. I'd like to express my thanks to the Rooms and the bSI leadership team for being able to put this on."
There is less than one month to go until the award submission portal closes. Submit your project for a chance to win a prestigious award. Do you have an exemplary project using buildingSMART openBIM solutions? We want to hear from you.
This year the categories are focused on:
Project Delivery
Operations
Research
Technology
We encourage firms that contribute to the delivery of projects to select project delivery, such as AEC firms. Asset owners should submit for operations. Students and professionals should submit to the research and software companies to the technology category.
Submission registrations will be accepted until July 5th, 2020. Submit your project now!
On the 9th June 2020, the International Council approved the buildingSMART Annual Report for 2019. The annual report covers all areas of buildingSMART including the three core programs. It also includes financial information and key updates from the community. You can read the full report below.
White Paper: Enabling an Ecosystem of Digital Twins
buildingSMART International has made available a positioning paper on the subject of digital twins. This paper titled “Enabling an Ecosystem of Digital Twins” was worked on by the Digital Twins Working Group. The aim of the paper was to find ways of unlocking more value through the use of digital technologies applied to the work done by buildingSMART and the connected ecosystem. This working group has developed this co-authored paper to deliver a vision and mission for the subject of digital twins.
IFC4.3 Infrastructure Deployment Webinar - Project Introduction and Call for Participation
2020 has been a major milestone year for the Infrastructure Room with the achievement of the IFC4.3 Candidate Standard (Infrastructure Extension). The next goal is to successfully deploy and validate the newly developed schema and push it to a bSI Final Standard in accordance with the bSI process. The IFC Infrastructure Extension Deployment Project has been established for this purpose.
This first expert panel focuses on the deployment activities within the project and includes a call for participation. The team would especially encourage domain experts and software vendors to participate.
Date: 17th June, 2020 Time: 10:00 a.m. (CET - Central European Time) Duration: 90 minutes
The Infrastructure Room Steering Committee, led by Tiina Perttula, shared progress at the bSI virtual summit that took place in May 2020. Key areas progressed in recent months include:
IFC Infrastructure Extensions Deployment – as announced at the bSI Virtual Summit in May 2020, the candidate standard has now been published for a fully-harmonized IFC schema extension for infrastructure covering road, rail, bridge, ports & waterways as well as concepts that are common across those domains. The complete 5-part Report was submitted to the bSI Standards Committee Executive and is now part of the Candidate Standard documentation. All the reports can be found further in the newsletter.
InfraRoom Roadmap - The team has now concluded the InfraRoom roadmap and recommendations of future projects that either support the extensions to bSI products, support Open Infrastructure, or involve interaction/communication with industry stakeholders, other standards bodies/technical developments and bSI in general. The InfraRoom Roadmap will be published via bSI.
IFC Road – Led by Dr Hyounseok Moon, Karin Anderson and Juha Hyvarinen, this project has now been completed. Throughout 2019 this project hit its key milestones and the team did a wonderful job in completing the project in May 2020.
IFC Infrastructure Extensions Deployment: Candidate Standard
The IFC Infrastructure Extensions Deployment Project is now available as a five-part Canidate Standard.
As the "IFC Rail" project enters Phase 2, there is a new web page dedicated to the project. IFC Rail is buildingSMART's largest project to date. This project was assembled by a group of stakeholders keen to address industry challenges, develop better ways of working, deliver open standards and extend the current buildingSMART schema to fit their needs.
This call for participation web page is dedicated to the project and aims to capture the next phase.
Join Bart Brink, Global Director Digital Twins at Royal HaskoningDHV for this buildingSMART webinar titled "Demystifying Digital Twins". As a multinational member of buildingSMART International, Royal HaskoningDHV is entitled to a webinar as a membership benefit.
In this webinar you will learn about:
Understanding digital twins and the role they play in digital transformation
Insight in various applications and dimensions of digital twins
Get inspired from concrete examples across multiple sectors
Suggestions, how to get started with digital twins
Date: 16th June 2020 Time: 14:00 p.m. (CEST - Central European Summer Time) Duration: 45 minutes Speakers: Bart Brink
Blog: Take BIM Processes to the next level with Digital Twins
Organizations in all industries are under pressure to deliver more robust and innovative operating models. Bart Brink, Global Director for Digital Twin at Royal HaskoningDHV, and Casey Rutland, UK Director of Digital at Royal HaskoningDHV, explore how digital twins can elevate BIM processes to create sustainable value and competitive advantage.
Now, it’s time for forward-thinking leaders to evolve their BIM outputs beyond design and construction and find new ways of deepening the use of collaborative data models in operational strategies through digital twin adoption.
You can read the rest of the blog by clicking the link below.
Esri joins buildingSMART International as a multinational member. Esri is the global leader in geographic information systems (GIS) and location intelligence. Read the press release here.
Chapter News:
The UK and Ireland Chapter publishes Fourth Edition of Guidance Part 2: Processes for Project Delivery Published. You can find out more by clicking here.
Chapter News:
buildingSMART Germany is hosting a series of webinars with UniversalTypes® dedicated to the digital distribution of building materials and products. You can find out more by visiting here.
News:
At the International Council, two new Board members were appointed. Kazumi Yajima and Jaan Saar were both appointed to the board of buildingSMART International with Inhan Kim and
Christophe Moreau stepping down.
Chapter News:
buildingSMART Benelux has launched its own Professional Certification LinkedIn page. This is a dedicated group supporting the overall buildingSMART Certiciation Program and can be accessed here.
Video:
A Chinese subtitled version of the introductory video on the COBie Certified Professional™ exam is now available. This webinar was shown at the Virtual Summit and can be accessedhere.
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