Construction and Application of Integration under IFC Standard Based on BIM Database

Abstract:

Recently the BIM concept that all professionals carry out collaborative work among domains and departments in the industry has attracted more and more attention by research scholars and engineers around the world. The core of the BIM technology is the information sharing and exchanging among the life cycle. In view of this key problem, this article introduces the situation of the BIM research and development in domestic and overseas, and indicates that there are several common problems existing in the BIM development, such as, the information of multiple projects cannot be stored in a centralized database; the information is lost or incorrect when importing and exporting IFC model files with popular BIM software; the application software based on BIM technology is quite few, etc. The paper points out that the realization of BIM technology shall be based on the BIM database which is based on IFC standard. After that, this paper discusses how to build the BIM database based on IFC standard, the application interface of BIM database, the function of budgetary estimates and the transplantation of structural model conversion to BIM database. Then, a few examples are given to demonstrate the feasibility and reliability of the BIM database and corresponding applications developed in this research. As a result, it is concluded that the IFC based on BIM database is the foundation of developing building collaborative platform and digital city.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 926-930)
• Pages: 1894-1897
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.926-930.1894
• Online since: May 2014
• Authors: Chang Li Sun*, Chang Liu, Dan Shi
• Keywords: BIM, Collaborative Design, Database, IFC Standard, Information Exchange, Information Sharing

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DOI: 10.1061/40652(2003)18