Nat ional Inst it ut e of Bui lding Sc ie nc es Fac ilit ies Inform at ion Counc il Nat ional BIM St andard Introduction to Appendices and References 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 Introduction to Appendices and References Introduction The two sections that follow Appendices and References are important components of the NBIMS but each have their own separate functions NBIMS Appendices are documents that will be reviewed through the NIBS consensus process Consensus incorporates formal review processes concluding in specific balloting in order to become official essentially stand alone standards under the NBIMS umbrella They will be compliant with all other aspects of NBIMS They are reviewed through the consensus process so that vendors may write software specifically to and be able to cite compliance with These shall also have IDM s produced for them that are written to the NBIMS as defined elsewhere in the document As noted in chapter 2 4 there are many other items that will be going through the NIBS consensus process over time also Some of these items will show up in Part 2 of this document others will show up in future versions The references that follow represent the work of many parallel groups that are working to define BIM implementation for their areas of responsibility Currently there are three types of references Business Process Roadmaps These documents provide the business relationships of the various activities of the real property industry These will be the basis for organizing the business processes and will likely be further detailed and coordinated over time The roadmaps will help organize the NBIMS and the procedures defined in the Information Delivery Manuals IDM s Guidelines Guidelines have currently been developed by several organizations and do currently include some items that should belong in the NBIMS Since NBIMS has not existed prior to this there was no standard from which to work resulting in a type of chicken and egg dilemma When formal NBIMS exist there will need to be some harmonization not only between the guideline and the NBIMS but also in relating the various guidelines to each other While guidelines are not actually a part of the NBIMS they are closely related and therefore included as references Other Key References These are parallel efforts being developed in concert with the NBIMS however are not part of the NBIMS and may in fact be standards on their own right These sections are provided to give the reader a better understanding of how each of these documents will ultimately fit together to enhance the National BIM Standard Over time each document in the appendices will likely transform in order to harmonize with the standard and the standard will change to better support their efforts Since the standard did not exist before this publishing the other documents could not be expected to be in harmony although many of the authors have been working together for some time now The documents are provided in their raw form with descriptions provided by the authors as to how and when they may change There will always be guidelines that describe how an organization intends to implement the National BIM Standard This is especially true due to the overall scope of the document What follows is a very brief identification of each of the sections that follow National Building Information Model Standard Copyright C 2007 National Institute of Building Sciences All rights reserved 3 11 2007 A R 1 Nat ional Inst it ut e of Bui lding Sc ie nc es Fac ilit ies Inform at ion Counc il Nat ional BIM St andard Introduction to Appendices and References 1 Appendices 2 3 4 5 6 A Early Design The objective of this work is to create a standard view definition based on Industry Foundation Classes IFC for the exchange of information between project planning programming Project Brief and early design and downs stream applications The view will contain owner requirements as well as constraints areas non graphic properties 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 B Construction Operations Building Information Exchange COBIE 14 15 References 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 The objectives of the Construction Operations Building Information Exchange COBIE project are two fold The first object is to reduce the cost of collating handover documents by providing a context within which those responsible for handover information may directly contribute that information The second objective is to provide the handover information in a clearly defined format that can be utilized by facility maintainers operators and asset managers The references are provided in an alphabetic list by name American General Contractors Guide to BIM A Guideline The Associated General Contractors of America s AGC Contractors Guide to BIM was written by contractors for contractors to provide a starting point for those seeking more information about Building Information Modeling The AGC Guide defines a Building Information Model as a data rich object oriented intelligent and parametric digital representation of the facility from which views and data appropriate to various users needs can be extracted and analyzed to generate information that can be used to make decisions and improve the process of delivering the facility 25 26 27 28 Coast Guard Information Model Guidelines A Guideline 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Contract Language Legal and Access Issues To be included in next version of NBIMS This document is currently located behind the USCG firewall and is not accessible to the public Please contact Dave Hammond for further information Of BIM s many impacts on practice those most certain to affect industry wide adoption are the effects on contractual methods and the underlying legal implications The design construction industry is at a key point in the development of BIM practices There is a general agreement in the industry that substantial project benefits can be realized through BIM however there is also a sense that BIM practices represent a substantial departure from the norms of professional practice The question remains how these developing practices should be expressed in prevailing contract language and thus represent contractual legal and liability risk The information contained within this section is provided for discussion only It is not intended to define specific standards for professional practice or provide a legal
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