TY - GEN
T1 - THE IFC-BRIDGE PROJECT – EXTENDING THE IFC STANDARD TO ENABLE HIGH-QUALITY EXCHANGE OF BRIDGE INFORMATION MODELS
AU - Borrmann, André
AU - Muhič, Sergej
AU - Hyvärinen, Juha
AU - Chipman, Tim
AU - Jaud, Stefan
AU - Castaing, Christophe
AU - Dumoulin, Claude
AU - Liebich, Thomas
AU - Mol, Laura
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© European Council on Computing in Construction (EC3).
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The paper reports on the buildingSMART International project IFC-Bridge that developed an extension of the vendor-neutral data exchange standard Industry Foundation Classes (IFC). The paper highlights the importance of a well-defined development process and the involvement of an international expert panel. It also discusses the need to focus on "low hanging fruits" by considering only the most widespread bridge types and implementing the data exchange scenarios that provide the most benefit. The paper describes both the development process and the outcome – the actual extension of the IFC standard. In this regard, emphasis is given to the general principles of extending IFC, such as minimizing the number of new entities.
AB - The paper reports on the buildingSMART International project IFC-Bridge that developed an extension of the vendor-neutral data exchange standard Industry Foundation Classes (IFC). The paper highlights the importance of a well-defined development process and the involvement of an international expert panel. It also discusses the need to focus on "low hanging fruits" by considering only the most widespread bridge types and implementing the data exchange scenarios that provide the most benefit. The paper describes both the development process and the outcome – the actual extension of the IFC standard. In this regard, emphasis is given to the general principles of extending IFC, such as minimizing the number of new entities.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85078205399&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.35490/EC3.2019.193
DO - 10.35490/EC3.2019.193
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85078205399
SN - 9781910963371
T3 - Proceedings of the European Conference on Computing in Construction
SP - 377
EP - 386
BT - Proceedings of the 2019 European Conference on Computing in Construction
A2 - O'Donnell, James
A2 - Chassiakos, Athanasios
A2 - Rovas, Dimitrios
A2 - Hall, Daniel
PB - European Council on Computing in Construction (EC3)
T2 - European Conference on Computing in Construction, EC3 2019
Y2 - 10 July 2019 through 12 July 2019
ER -