Increasingly, designers are adopting building information modelling (BIM) to improve productivity and better manage project lifecycles, especially on large projects with multi-disciplinary teams.
The growing appetite to implement BIM workflows is supported by different BIM applications. This creates enormous variety in the designations, properties and naming conventions of BIM objects. While technological diversity is welcome, in this case it fosters ‘BIM ghettos’ (silos of segregated users), each bound to different software vendors.
NATSPEC can help you make interoperable BIM objects that work seamlessly.
Currently, users create BIM objects with different parameters for different digital workflows. It means the data included for one BIM object is not necessarily interoperable with data included with another object of the same type. This fragmentation has costly implications for manufacturers who must create different BIM objects to suit various needs.
Creating and maintaining BIM content can be expensive, particularly for large product ranges. Understandably, manufacturers are reluctant to invest in the creation of BIM content without some reassurance the subsequent content is suitable for users' needs.
To assist, NATSPEC has released the BIM Object Properties Generator, which helps manufacturers output a 'standardised' data schema that enables BIM objects to be interoperable between applications or users, thus allowing easier substitution of a generic BIM object with the manufacturer's BIM object.
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Manufacturers can now efficiently engage specifiers through ‘standardised’ BIM object data.
Having published the acclaimed and internationally adopted NATSPEC National BIM Guide (2011) and BIM Management Plan Template (2016), NATSPEC launched the BIM Properties Generator (2018), a new tool to help the standardisation of BIM objects across the construction industry.
Thanks to NATSPEC, it is now possible to create BIM content that is acceptable to more designers.
The tool helps architects, engineers and builders harmonise project requirements everywhere, since it enables manufacturers’ product BIM object data to integrate seamlessly across all workflows. This puts the power of BIM into the manufacturer’s hands and ensures products can be specified by everyone.
BIM objects are the new product catalogue, so it makes sense they work with different software platforms.
The BIM Properties Generator assists in the interoperability of BIM objects from project to project, software to software, eliminating the duplication and waste suffered by manufacturers to date. It does so by addressing information exchange issues between software vendors with the implementation of the IFC schema. This exchange of standard product information fosters collaboration between systems.
DID YOU KNOW?
Incorporating BIM content as part of your product marketing strategy can generate a regular stream of qualified 'early-stage project' leads.
WANT TO GET SPECIFIED FASTER?
Use the BIM Object Properties Generator.
Questions? Please visit: https://bim.natspec.org/