National BIM Standard – United States®:

The Development, Application and Vision

John Messner, Ph.D.

Charles & Elinor Matts Professor of Architectural Engineering
Director, Computer Integrated Construction Research Program
Vice Chair, buildingSMART alliance™
Penn State © 2015
 Integrated Systems
Behavior
Virtual Mock-ups
Modularization BIM Innovation
Information Standards
Experienced-based Design

Sustainability
Process Models
High Performance Buildings
Automation

Visualization Decision Making

Virtual Reality
Integrated Delivery
Serious Games Team Selection

Boundary Management
Design Pedagogy
Simulation
Collaboration
Lean Planning Cloud computing

A focus on
Building Information Modeling
 CAN BE USED TO
CAN BE USED TO
VIRTUALLY DESIGN VIRTUALLY DESIGN
REVIEW DESIGN CONCEPTS
DETECT COLLISIONS
REVIEW CONSTRUCTABILITY
SCHEDULE TASKS & ACTIVITIES
COMPLETE ENGINEERING ANALYSIS
MODEL EXISTING CONDITIONS
CREATE A RECORD MODEL
MANAGE & MAINTAIN A BUILDING
 CAN BE USED TO
CAN BE USED TO
DETECT COLLISIONS REVIEW DESIGN CONCEPTS
 CAN BE USED TO
CAN BE USED TO
SCHEDULE TASKS & ACTIVITIES EVALUATE CONSTRUCTABILITY
 CAN BE USED TO
CAN BE USED TO
MODEL EXISTING CONDITIONS COMPLETE ENGINEERING ANALYSIS
 CAN BE USED TO
CAN BE USED TO
MANAGE & MAINTAIN A BUILDING CREATE RECORD MODEL
 The Challenges…

How should we implement BIM on projects?

How can we share information between tasks?

 1994
A Year to Remember

International Alliance for Interoperability

(now BuildingSMART International)
The Beginning of Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)
Received my PhD
Got Married

Product Modeling

Building Information Modeling

Process Modeling
Thirteen Years Later…

2007

NBIMS-US
Version 1
2007
A Definition of Building Information Modeling (BIM)
“… a product or intelligent digital representation of data about a
capital facility.…
… a collaborative process which covers business drivers,
automated process capabilities, and open information
standards.…”
… a facility lifecycle management tool of well understood
information exchanges, workflows, and procedures….”
Source:
National Building Information Model Standard,
Version 1, Part 1 (page 20)

A Process to Develop Information Exchange Standards

Program Process /
Use Case

Focus on
Design
Information
Needs and
Construct
Deployment

Deploy
• Five Years Later
Five Years Later…

2012

NBIMS-US
Version 2
2012
 Information Exchange
Standards
Practice Documents

NBIMS-US
Version 2
Reference Standards

Terms and Definitions

Included in Version 2
Information Exchange (ie) Standards
• Construction to Operations Building (COBie)
• Design to Spatial Programming
• Design to Energy Analysis
• Design to Quantity Take-off
Practice Documents
• BIM Project Execution Guide / Content
• Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) Coordination
• Planning, Executing and Managing Information Handover
• Minimum BIM
Reference Standards
• Industry Foundation Class (IFC 2x3 / ISO PAS 16739)
• OmniClass Tables 13, 21, 22, 23, 32, and 36
• IFD Library
 Construction to Operations Building
Information Exchange (COBie)

DESIGN BUILD OPERATE

Product Data
Space Layout
As-Built Layout
System Layout
Tag / Serial No
Equipment Layout
Warranties

East, E. W. (2013). “Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie).” Whole Building Design
Guide - National Institute of Building Sciences, www.wbdg.org/resources/cobie.php
A Four StepIdentifying
Structured GoalsPlanning
and Uses Procedure

BIM Goals
and Uses

Process

Information
Exchanges

Infrastructure
 Identifying
Identify BIM Goals and
Goals UsesUses
and

BIM Goals
and Uses

Process

Information
Exchanges “Begin with the
end in mind.”
Infrastructure

Design BIM Process

BIM Goals
and Uses

Process

Information
Exchanges

Infrastructure
 Develop Information Exchanges

BIM Goals
and Uses

Process

Information
Exchanges

Infrastructure

Develop Supporting Infrastructure

BIM Goals
and Uses

Process

Information
Exchanges

Infrastructure
• Five Years Later
Three Years Later…

2015

NBIMS-US

July 2015
Version 3
NBIMS-US: Version 3 Additional Content
Information Exchange (ie) Standards
• Construction to Operations Building (COBie) (New Version)
• Building Programming Info Exchange (BPie)
• Electrical Info Exchange (SPARKie)
• Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditionaing Info Exc (HVACie)
• Water Systems Info Exchange (Wsie)

Practice Documents
• BIM Planning Guide for Facility Owners
• Practical BIM Contract Requirements (from US Corp of Engineers)
• Uses of BIM
• Minimum BIM (revised)

NBIMS-US: Version 3 Additional Content (cont)

Reference Standards
• OmniClass (7 additional tables)
• BIM Collaboration Format
• LOD Specification
• National CAD Standard® – V5
 Identifying Goals and Uses
The Challenge

BIM Goals
and Uses

Process

Information
Exchanges “Begin with the
end in mind.”
Infrastructure
From Project to Organization
INTEGRATING BIM INTO AN ORGANIZATION

RECOMMENDED
TYPICAL ORGANIZATIONAL
ORGANIZATIONAL
BIM
BIM INTEGRATION PROGRESSION
ROGRESSION

BIM Planning Guide for Facility Owners

 BIM PLANNING ELEMENTS
The Purpose of BIM Implementation
Strategy
Mission – Vision – Goals - Objectives

The Specific Method of Implementing BIM

Uses
Generating – Processing – Communicating – Executing – Managing

The Means of BIM Implementation

Process
Current – Target – Transition

The Information Needed About the Facility

Information
Model Element Breakdown – Level of Development – Facility Data

The Infrastructure Needs to Implement BIM

Infrastructure
Software – Hardware – Workspace

The Affects of BIM on Personnel

Personnel
Roles & Responsibilities – Hierarchy – Education – Training – Change Readiness

Organizational BIM Assessment Profile

Transition
Current
Target Level of Maturity Totals
Strategy 0
Non-Existent
1
Initial
2
Managed
3
Defined
4
Quantitatively
5
Optimizing
Current Target Possible
No Basic Established Organization
Goals are specific,
Mission address Mission and Goals are

Mission and Goals C

Organizational
Mission or
Goals
Organizational
Mission
Established
T
Basic
Organizational
Goals
purpose, services,
values at
minimum
measurable,
attainable, relevant,
and timely
regularly revisited,
maintained and
updated (as necessary)
0 2 5
No BIM Vision Basic BIM Established BIM Vision BIM Objectives are Vision and Objectives

Vision and Objectives C

or Objectives
Defined
Vision is
Establish
T
Basic BIM
Objectives
address mission,
strategy, and
culture
specific, measurable,
attainable, relevant,
and timely
are regularly revisited,
maintained and
updated (as necessary)
0 2 5
Full Support for
BIM Limited support
No Limited Full support for BIM Full Support of
Management Support Management
Support
C
Support for
feasibility study
T
Implementatio
n with Some
Resource
Implementation with
Appropriate Resource
Commitment
for continuing
efforts with a
limited budget
continuing
efforts
1 2 5
Commitment
BIM Champion BIM Champion Multiple BIM Executive Level
identified but BIM Support Executive-level BIM

BIM Champion No BIM

Champion
limited time
committed to BIM
initiative
with Adequate
Time
Commitment
C
Champions
with Each
Working Group
T
Champion with
limit time
commitment
Champion working
closely with Working
Group Champion
3 4 5
No BIM Small Ad-hoc BIM Committee is Multi-disciplinary BIM Planning Committee BIM Planning

Planning Team C 5
Decisions are

T 0 3
Planning Committee includes members for
Planning Committee with formalized but not
established with all level of the
only those inclusive of all integrated with
Committee members from all organization including
organizational
interested in BIM operating units operative units executives
established Strategic Planning

Uses 0
Non-Existent
1
Initial
2
Managed
3
Defined
4
Quantitatively
5
Optimizing
Current Target Possible
Extensive use of
No BIM Uses No BIM Uses Minimal Owner Extensive use of Open sharing of
BIM with sharing

Project Uses for Projects

identified
for Projects
identified
Requirements
for BIM
CT
BIM with limited
sharing between
parties
between parties
within project
phase
BIM Data across
all parties and
project phases
3 3 5
Record (As- Record BIM data BIM data is
No BIM Uses BIM data manually

Operational Uses C 1 2 5
BIM data maintained
for Operations
identified
Built) BIM
model received
by operations
T
imported or
referenced for
operational uses
maintained for
operational uses
directly integrated
with operational
systems
with operational
systems in Real-time

Process 0
Non-Existent
1
Initial
2
Managed
3
Defined
4
Quantitatively
5
Optimizing
Current Target Possible
Detailed BIM
No external High-level BIM Integrated High Detailed BIM Detailed BIM Process

Project Process C
project BIM
Processes
Documented
Process
Documented
for Each Party
T
Level BIM
Process
Documented
Process
Documented for
Primary BIM Uses
Process
Documented
for all BIM Uses
Documented and
Regularly
Maintained and
0 2 5
Updated

High-Level BIM Detailed BIM Detailed BIM

No internal Integrated High Detailed BIM Process

T
Process Process Document

Operation Processes 0 2 5
level

C
organizational
BIM Processes
Documented
Documented for
each operating
unit
organizational
Process
documented
for primary
organizational
Uses
Process
Documented
for all BIM Uses
Documented and
Regularly
Maintained and
Updated
 Organizational BIM Roadmap
Timeline with
Key Phases

Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3

Organizational BIM Planning Elements

Strategy

Uses

Process

Information

Infrastructure

Personnel

ORGANIZATIONAL BIM EXECUTION PLANNING PROCEDURE

PRIORITY OBJECTIVE
Vision and Determine the BIM Vision and Objectives
Objectives for the duration of the Execution Plan

Determine how the organization will use

Uses BIM during the operations phase

Map the Organizational Processes

Process including future BIM Processes

Determine and Document operational

Information information needs including attributes

Determine operational infrastructure

Infrastructure including hardware, software, and spaces

Determine Personnel Needs to support

Personnel the implementation of BIM
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AUTHORS
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Chitwan Saluja
Ashwin Ramesh
Kim Price

Consensus Approved
Standard
Lifecycle Focus

NBIMS-US
Summary
Clearly Defined
Information Exchanges
Adoption Guidelines

Proven Practices
 Open BIM Adoption
Information Exchanges
Process Framework

Remaining Work

Global Standards Education

Coordination

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Homework

☐ Download the BIM Planning Guides (bim.psu.edu)

☐ Develop Plans for BIM Implementation on Projects

☐ Create a BIM Plan for Your Organization

☐ Support the Integration of BIM in Education

☐ Transform your processes through BIM integration

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The Uses of BIM

Classifying and Selecting BIM Uses!
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September 2013

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THANK
YOU John Messner
jmessner@engr.psu.edu