Analysis of the possibility of using the IFC model to describe infrastructural objects on selected examples

Michał Wyszomirski
ORCID: 0000-0002-5407-0536
Warsaw University of Technology
Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography
Department of Cartography
Poland

Andrzej Szymon Borkowski
ORCID: 0000-0002-7013-670X
Warsaw University of Technology
Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography
Department of Spatial Management and Environmental Science
Poland

Abstract

The standards used in Building Information Modelling are mature, but currently they do not include methods for modelling of infrastructural objects. It is expected that the IFC standard will be extended with new classes of objects representing infrastructural objects in the near future. However, before this happens, BIM models of infrastructural objects will appear that will use the currently available IFC classes. The analysis of BIM models available to the authors, including infrastructural objects, showed that the classes of elements of a building are used to build the model. When the BIM model is analysed, as well as when BIM and GIS data are integrated, attention should be paid to such cases when object classes will not reflect the reality. In addition, existing BIM models of infrastructural objects are unlikely to be rebuilt after the introduction of the extended IFC model, so the semantics of these models will be incorrect. Development of coherent spatial information systems including data from BIM models must therefore take into account the need to translate the classes used in these models to their respective counterparts.

Received 3.09.2018 Accepted 31.01.2019 Published 30.03.2019

Keywords:

BIM technology; IFC; infrastructural projects

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