WELCOME TO OUR DESIGN SUMMIT PRESENTATION

WHAT IS COBie AND WHY DO I CARE

Senior Architect Product Specialist.

Juan Carlos Fabbiani, AIA

• What is COBie

• Discuss Team’s responsibilities

• Explain the Architect’s responsibilities

• Explain the process of COBie using Vectorworks

Learning Objectives

• COBie is the abbreviation of Construction Operations Building

information exchange

COBie

History

What?

or

Teams

Team Responsibilities

COBie Worksheet Required Content

Contact One row for the designer’s BIM manager shall be provided.

Facility One facility per COBie file.

Floor One row for each vertical level to include foundations, floors, roofs, and site.

Space One row per functional space, per room. Mult. spaces in a room possible.

Zone One row for each COBie.Space and COBie.Zone type.

Type One row for each scheduled product type found on design drawings.

Component One row for each individual scheduled product found on design drawings.

System One row for each system to be defined in the next stage of design.

DocumentOne row for each associated deliverable document linked to relevant sheet.

One row listing URL of target product COBie. Type selected.

Attribute One row for each required COBie. Space Attribute.

One row for each required COBie. Type Attribute.

One row for each required COBie. Component Attribute.

The ArchitectCOBie Deliverables at 35% and Construction Documents

http://projects.buildingsmartalliance.org/files/?artifact_id=4093

COBie and Vectorworks

• Ifc

• Vectorworks COBie Setup

• Export SPFF and/or Spreadsheet

• SPFF to xml

COBie queries the following IFC data types from an architectural model and/or its elements:

Owner History data

IFC Attributes

IFC Properties (standard IFC 2x3 and custom COBie 2-required properties)

IFC Classification Reference data

IFC Type Product entities

IFC Zone assignments

IFC System assignments

Base quantities

Space containment relation

Space boundary relation

• Ifc

IFC Data Mapping

Vectorworks 2018 COBie Setup

Pre-Flight Worksheets

Export IFC Project – Export Options

Vectorworks 2018 COBie Project Setup

Export IFC Project – Project Data

Export IFC Project – Author Data Export IFC Project – Author Addresses

Export IFC Project – Organization Data Export IFC Project – Organization Addresses

Export IFC Project – Site Data Export IFC Project – Site Addresses

Export IFC Project – Building Data Export IFC Project – Building Addresses

Export IFC Project – Layer Mapping

Spaces and Zones

Ifc Data Mapping

Export COBie

http://www.nibs.org/?page=bsa_cobiemm

or

Export COBie

Export IFC Project

COBie Ifc file

What to do with this file?

COBie Ifc file

http://projects.buildingsmartalliance.org/files/?artifact_id=5466

COBie Tool Kit

Import Ifc file

Export to COBie

Spreadsheet

COBie Ifc file

COBie Handover

Architect Contractor

COBie Journey

COBie

COBie Life Cycle

Q & A

Links

COBie Tool Kit

http://www.nibs.org/?page=bsa_cobiemm

COBie Design Template

http://projects.buildingsmartalliance.org/files/?artifact_id=5466

https://www.nibs.org/?page=bsa_cobie&hhSearchTerms=%22cobie%22

NIBS Construction Operations Building information exchange

Juan Carlos Fabbiani, AIA

jfabbiani@vectorworks.net

Patience. Use the force. Think.

http://projects.buildingsmartalliance.org/files/?artifact_id=4093

COBie Responsibility Matrix