BIM Repository Workshop

On 28th and 29th June, BIM Repository Workshop was held at KTH. Arto Kiviniemi (Salford), Chuck Eastman (Georgia Tech), Vladimir Bazjanac (LBNL), Robin Drogemuller (Queensland UoT), Bob Owen (Salford, IDDS), Jacob Beetz (TU Eindhoven, BIMserver.org), Robert Amor (University of Auckland, IDDS), Patrick Houbaux (Eurostep, BIM servers), Jiri Hietanen (Datacubist, MVD, BLIS), van Berlo (TNO, BIMserver.org) and Väino Tarandi (KTH) participated, presented their works and contributd their points of view to the group during the workshops. Nick Nisbet (AEC3, COBie WP in the UK) and Thomas Olofsson (Luleå Technical University) were not able to attend.

A variety of topics were discussed and potential solutions for ambigious areas in the field were brainstormed. Requirements management, versioning and change management, partial model exchanges, server query facilities, system and service integration throughout the whole lifecycle, model responsibility, data ownership, long transactions and consolidation and data integrity in BIM were among the topics. The outcomes will be soon published as a white-paper. 

Jakob, me and Vladimir in Rökeriet, photo by Arto