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LarsHarrie

Lars Harrie

Professor

LarsHarrie

Reference study of IFC software support : The GeoBIM benchmark 2019—Part I

Author

  • Francesca Noardo
  • Thomas Krijnen
  • Ken Arroyo Ohori
  • Filip Biljecki
  • Claire Ellul
  • Lars Harrie
  • Helen Eriksson
  • Lorenzo Polia
  • Nebras Salheb
  • Helga Tauscher
  • Jordi van Liempt
  • Hendrik Goerne
  • Dean Hintz
  • Tim Kaiser
  • Cristina Leoni
  • Artur Warchol
  • Jantien Stoter
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Summary, in English

Industry Foundation Classes (IFC), the buildingSMART open standard for BIM, is underused with respect to its promising potential, since, according to the experience of practitioners and researchers working with BIM, issues in the standard’s implementation and use prevent its effective use. Nevertheless, a systematic investigation of these issues has never been carried out, and there is thus insufficient evidence for tackling the problems. The GeoBIM benchmark project is aimed at finding such evidence by involving external volunteers, reporting on various aspects of the behavior of tools (geometry, semantics, georeferencing, functionalities), analyzed and described in this article. Interestingly, different IFC software programs with the same standardized data sets yield inconsistent results, with few detectable common patterns, and significant issues are found in their support of the standard, probably due to the very high complexity of the standard data model. A companion article (Part II) describes the results of the benchmark related to CityGML, the counterpart of IFC within geoinformation.

Department/s

  • Centre for Geographical Information Systems (GIS Centre)
  • Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science
  • eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration

Publishing year

2021-04-01

Language

English

Pages

805-841

Publication/Series

Transactions in GIS

Volume

25

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • Environmental Analysis and Construction Information Technology

Keywords

  • building information models
  • GeoBIM
  • Industry Foundation Classes
  • interoperability
  • open standards
  • software support

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1361-1682