Extending the IFC Standard to Enable Road Operation and Maintenance Management through OpenBIM

Ait-Lamallam, Sara, Yaagoubi, Reda, Sebari, Imane and Doukari, Omar (2021) Extending the IFC Standard to Enable Road Operation and Maintenance Management through OpenBIM. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 10 (8). p. 496. ISSN 2220-9964

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Abstract

Open Building Information Modelling (OpenBIM) is a collaborative project management process. Its application to road infrastructures is currently limited. OpenBIM standards for infrastructure are still under development. One of these standards is the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC), which is a data architecture for modelling infrastructure projects. The current and upcoming releases of IFCRoad focus on structuring data for the design and construction phases of an infrastructure’s lifecycle. Semantics of the O&M process phase are not fully integrated within these standards. This paper proposes an extension of the IFC schema to enrich this standard with semantics inherent in the O&M phase of road infrastructures. This extension, based on IFCInfra4OM ontology, allows the OpenBIM process to be fully applied to road infrastructures. Its implementation on a case study relative to the A7 Agadir–Marrakech Highway in Morocco enables, on the one hand, analysis and compliance with O&M management requirements on the basis of a single container: the IFC-BIM-based model. On the other hand, it allows comparison of the OpenBIM process with that of ClosedBIM for the integration of O&M data into BIM for a road infrastructure.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Industry Foundation Classes (IFC); IFCRoad; OpenBIM; operation and maintenance; IFC extension; road infrastructure; project management
Subjects: H200 Civil Engineering
Department: Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mechanical and Construction Engineering
Depositing User: Elena Carlaw
Date Deposited: 23 Jul 2021 13:48
Last Modified: 31 Jul 2021 10:04
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/46742

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