
Lars Harrie
Professor

Reference study of IFC software support : The GeoBIM benchmark 2019—Part I
Författare
Summary, in English
Industry Foundation Classes (IFC), the buildingSMART open standard for BIM, is underused with respect to its promising potential, since, according to the experience of practitioners and researchers working with BIM, issues in the standard’s implementation and use prevent its effective use. Nevertheless, a systematic investigation of these issues has never been carried out, and there is thus insufficient evidence for tackling the problems. The GeoBIM benchmark project is aimed at finding such evidence by involving external volunteers, reporting on various aspects of the behavior of tools (geometry, semantics, georeferencing, functionalities), analyzed and described in this article. Interestingly, different IFC software programs with the same standardized data sets yield inconsistent results, with few detectable common patterns, and significant issues are found in their support of the standard, probably due to the very high complexity of the standard data model. A companion article (Part II) describes the results of the benchmark related to CityGML, the counterpart of IFC within geoinformation.
Avdelning/ar
- Centrum för geografiska informationssystem (GIS-centrum)
- Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap
- eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
Publiceringsår
2021-04-01
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
805-841
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Transactions in GIS
Volym
25
Issue
2
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Ämne
- Environmental Analysis and Construction Information Technology
Nyckelord
- building information models
- GeoBIM
- Industry Foundation Classes
- interoperability
- open standards
- software support
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1361-1682