A question was asked on Linked in about experience of creating COBie data and software used. Rather than post a reply, solely in Linked-In, I thought it would be good to make our experience public. Here is a sketch of our experience and developments linking models with external data. We developed a briefing application…
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We have had file based complete single models, then we needed to share other peoples work with in our own models so we had references then we needed to analysis these references together so we got federated models. With me so far. All these scenarios are based on files exchanges. Now we have virtual models…
I’ve had a look at the school proposals for utilising it’s assets to consolidate the school premises. I am really pleased that they are proposing this because our community needs good schools and in todays climate that means well equiped modern facilities. Do you remember when the school was losing students from the area to…
There is a view that the coordinate sheet in COBie is not important to the handover information set for FM. This might well be true – if the FM system that receives this data does not support spatial information and displaying it in context as graphical floor plan, there are a lot out there that don’t or…
Thematic plans are a remarkably productive way of visualising data about rooms in a building. Producing those thematic plans requires drawings with spaces clearly defined so that the enclosed area can be easily coloured / hatched usually in a CAD system. The process for many projects has surveyors going out to each building recording a…
Dangling from a cradle 40 stories high, clip board tethered to a wrist, scaling up and down the side of a building, weather permitting, inspecting joints, seals and glazing. This job has to be done for the life of the tall building; lives and rent are at risk. Nearly all major cities around the world…
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