Infrastructural BIM standards-development of an Information Delivery Manual for the geotechnical infrastructural design and analysis process

Defining infrastructural BIM standards is an essential issue to successfully implement BIM in the civil engineering domain and to gain acceptance of engineers, software developers and executive users. For this reason the paper proposes a way to improve collaboration between the geomechanical infrastructural design and analysis process, by introducing an infrastructural Information Delivery Manual (IDM). To realize IDM, the traditional geomechanical infrastructural use case was defined and the process specific workflow (activities & data exchange) was determined by developing an infrastructural process map. In order to ensure correct data exchange between the involved processes various Exchange Requirements (ER) were specified. But to the effect an infrastructural product model like IFC is still not available, the data exchange as well as the ER specification was made by different formats. At the end of this research activity the Model View Definition (MVD) was discussed.