Welcome to Nine O’Clock Banana. The blog about the final and conclusive truth about BIM!
Now you may wonder about the connection between bananas and BIM, and why on earth nine o’clock? Well, when we founded Datacubist in 2009 with my colleague Sakari Lehtinen, he took the habit of eating a banana every morning at nine o’clock, and we had many of our best ideas on his daily banana break.
One obvious banana related feature we came up with early on is peeling, the functionality of dragging and dropping objects from a 3D window such that they disappear from that 3D window and appear somewhere else. Peeling is still one of the unique key features of simplebim®, but most ideas were naturally not even remotely banana-related.
Many of our ideas are implemented in the Simplebim® application or enabled by it, but this blog is not only about Simplebim®. We hope you find our ideas interesting and that we can even help you gain a deeper understanding of BIM, IFC data exchange and all the things around them. Ultimately to empower you with the knowledge, that working and reliable data exchange can create for you.
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Simplebim and IFC4.3
Extending the existing IFC schema to better support infrastructure projects, including rail, roads, bridges, tunnels, ports, and waterways, the IFC4.3 aims to cover more infrastructure domains to facilitate comprehensive digital representation and management of these assets. Several countries are moving towards mandating IFC4.3 including the UK, Germany and the Nordics...
Here at Simplebim, we talk a lot about standardising and enriching BIM data in IFCs. But what does this mean, practically, for the construction companies, architects, structural engineers, HVAC engineers, BIM managers and quantity surveyors who use our data-wrangling software? And how do they benefit? What follows are six practical...
Inconsistent, voluminous, inaccurate and unstructured data is one of the main challenges to BIM adoption. Add to that the multiple data sources and the numerous requirements of the different disciplines involved in the construction process and you’d wonder how anything gets built. That’s where BIM Data Wrangling comes in. What...