Information Age Business Processes:Objects, Building Information Models and Specifiers

Opportunities for Specifiers who are not afraid of the web

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To profit in the Information Age - Transform Processes

Building industry professionals willing to use web-based business processes can prosper in this Age

Travel Industry Transformed Communications Industry Transformed Financial Markets Transformed

Owners of large real estate portfolios seek business partners with web capabilities

For example

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Connect people to project information they need

Federal Agencies seek cost savings from the web

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Help owners track their building assets on the web

Start here, with Excel

End up with 3D objects on the web

Images and process information courtesy of Onuma, Inc.

buildingSMART alliance has established paths

for getting started - BIMStorm® is one

DoD / VA - Space & Equipment Planning System (SEPS)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN-10UsWsSs&feature=share&list=PLVUOlnnVtoOGTNhjDd1FNo4toND_DvtZt&index=5

Current processes are disjointed

Start with Excel data, but

data is not connected

Information Age processes share data on the web

Data still starts in a structured

format,

but is stored on the web

and shared for the life of the

project

Master Construction

Specifications

How do you help owners benefit from web processes?Start with one object

António Frade Pina of concepsysBIM provides an example

Insert it into a room

Move it, show it in 2D, show it in 3D, replicate it

But the most important element is the Information

(Information can be in Portuguese for António’s clients)

SketchUp is a cost effective place to start with one object

See one object in many ways

Global Unique Identifiers (GUID) for duplicate objects

Share data through IFC (Industry Foundation Classes)

The most important thing to see is the data - online

Through this . . .

From this . . .

Have reports in many formats to communicate clearly

Each military hospital is to download one chair - Have they all done so yet?

Agreements can be simple, but they need to define process

Collaborative agreements help information flow properly

A process chart is part

of the contract

So the Military Doctors can repair a jaw properly

Everything from the

outlet to the medical

equipment is specified

properly

Credits and Links

Kimon Onuma, FAIA, Onuma, Inc.

António Frade Pina, concepsysBIM

Ryan Ghere, AIA, BPM Content Manager at SketchUp

James L. Salmon, Esq., Collaborative Construction

Alan Redmond, U.K. BIM Education Co-op leader

buildingSMART Alliance

Als

Information Age Business ProcessesObjects, Building Information Models and SpecifiersMichael Bordenaro - BIM Education Co-op - mbordenaro@cs.com

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