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Reference study of IFC software support : The GeoBIM benchmark 2019—Part I

Noardo, Francesca ; Krijnen, Thomas ; Arroyo Ohori, Ken ; Biljecki, Filip ; Ellul, Claire ; Harrie, Lars LU orcid ; Eriksson, Helen LU ; Polia, Lorenzo ; Salheb, Nebras and Tauscher, Helga , et al. (2021) In Transactions in GIS 25(2). p.805-841
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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... (More)

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.

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building information models, GeoBIM, Industry Foundation Classes, interoperability, open standards, software support
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Transactions in GIS
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25
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37 pages
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Wiley-Blackwell
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10.1111/tgis.12709
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  author       = {{Noardo, Francesca and Krijnen, Thomas and Arroyo Ohori, Ken and Biljecki, Filip and Ellul, Claire and Harrie, Lars and Eriksson, Helen and Polia, Lorenzo and Salheb, Nebras and Tauscher, Helga and van Liempt, Jordi and Goerne, Hendrik and Hintz, Dean and Kaiser, Tim and Leoni, Cristina and Warchol, Artur and Stoter, Jantien}},
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  keywords     = {{building information models; GeoBIM; Industry Foundation Classes; interoperability; open standards; software support}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{04}},
  number       = {{2}},
  pages        = {{805--841}},
  publisher    = {{Wiley-Blackwell}},
  series       = {{Transactions in GIS}},
  title        = {{Reference study of IFC software support : The GeoBIM benchmark 2019—Part I}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12709}},
  doi          = {{10.1111/tgis.12709}},
  volume       = {{25}},
  year         = {{2021}},
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