The issue of standards is quite complex in the BIM world, but the benefits are perhaps even greater for open systems than in the GIS space. The eagerness of the BIM community to move toward interoperability has led them to tap the tried and proven approach of the Open Geospatial Consortium to conduct an interoperability testbed that’s now underway.
Louis Hecht, director of business development at OGC is coordinating the AECOO-1 Testbed to align AEC industry information technology and information pathways. He just wrote a feature that is now posted on the V1 Magazine homepage that outlines some of the issues that this market faces.
Excerpt:
“The “I” in BIM is not about automating paper-based processes. It is about synchronizing information across applications to speed up, make more relevant and shorten certain building-related workflows. It is about simulation, decision support, data bases, and purpose-driven content sharing. To address the business issues confronting the global building industry, any vendor’s BIM needs to interoperate across the Internet with a wide range of other software solutions, providing a reliable basis for tracking and making decisions during the building’s life cycle.”
Read the full feature here.
