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buildingSMART over 2008

A brief summary of this year's key activities

This month buildingSMART will hold an end of year Board meeting followed by the Annual General Meeting from 5pm to 6pm (EDT – Eastern Daylight Time). Note all financial members can vote for Board member positions. If you would like to participate see the Event details above. For those nominating for postions on the Board, you can get the Nomination forms here.

The year has seen many developments, particularly as the engineering disciplines adopt BIM, which has been an important stimulus for multi-disciplinary collaboration. Several major projects for example, such as the new office building for DBBREEF at Albert Street Brisbane, and The Ark project  for Investa in North Sydney, are demonstrating the benefits of BIM.

buildingSMART International held its annual summit in Stockholm from Sept 15-19th, hosted by two of Sweden's leading design practices, Sweco and White, both of whom are committed to the new model based ways of working.

The Summit hosted its traditional Wednesday industry day where 300 delegates saw a diverse range of projects and demonstration of the latest IFC implementations.

Presentations included the new HQ for Rambøll in Copenhagen, recent work from Finland's Senate Properties the HAKA6 project where an existing office building has been refurbished using their BIM Guidelines, and a Norwegian Border Post project, utilising all disciplines using openBIM.

You can download the presentations from the Swedish buildingSMART website here under Documentation.

buildingSMART participated in Built Environment Meets Parliament (BEMP) where the combined effort of ASBEC, AIA, PCOA, GBCaus, ACEA and PIA successfully put forward to the Federal Government a suite of policy proposals on GHG reductions that can be achieved by the Construction sector. Minister Kim Carr announced the creation of a Built Environment Industry Innovation Council (BEIIC) with its inaugral chairman Sue Holliday, and recently announced the remaining members covering a broad cross section of the industry.

Current iniatives by building SMART Australasia are:

  • the development of a formal policy proposal to the Federal Government on the benefits of openBIM to support industry innovation in Local Government, facility development and GHG reduction. A recent report of the STANDINN project in Europe has developed a handbook soon to be published, and will be an important resource for our Australasian considerations.
  • holding a Conference Sep/Oct 2009, located in Sydney to include all the discplines involved in the life cycle of building developments. The theme will be collaborative projects, with international and local project presentations. A feature of the conference will be training workshops in the use of openBIM and exchange processes, with a wide variety of collaboration scenarios
  • working with product manufacturers, Government and Industry to create product information in an open object format that can support the Industry's takeup of BIM. Already BPIC are developing Life Cycle Inventory data to support sustainability and the proper measurement of embodied energy. buildingSMART's goal is to assist product manufacturers convert their disparate product information into objects that are accurate 3D representations, have rich data describing key physical, performance and commercail properties and be in a format that all relevant parties of the Built Environment can share from inception to operations and management.
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