Master thesis towards a Reference Architecture for bim building


What are the characteristics of a reference architecture for BIM integration designed to facilitate


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THESIS interation in the construction industry

What are the characteristics of a reference architecture for BIM integration designed to facilitate 
BIM adoption? 
There are three main components of the reference architecture: the data platform, the 
bus/integration platform and the support application. The data platform should be able to store and 
expose BIM models while adhering to the IFC standard. The bus is used to both be able to connect 
between the support application and the data platform, and between the support application and 
the existing application landscape.
The main characteristics are the open nature of the architecture developed, meaning any traditional 
tool should be able to connect and use BIM data within the existing environment. This is meant to 
alleviate the biggest barrier of BIM adoption, namely the high knowledge requirement. By allowing 
users to keep using their familiar work environments, less training is needed to adopt to the new way 
of working. While there will surely be changes to the work flow when moving towards a BIM centric 
way of working, technical knowledge requirements are lower than when users actually have to learn 
BIM tooling.
The architecture also serves as a starting point for businesses and researchers alike. By building upon 
this foundation, integration should become less convoluted and more understood. 
By reducing the two biggest barriers identified in literature, namely Required Training and Knowledge 
(by allowing users to work without BIM without having to learn everything about it) and Software 
and Integration issues (by creating an open integration based on existing standards and simplifying 
the integration tasks), the reference architecture will hopefully increase BIM adoption. 
By delivering this architecture, the hope is to provide science with a reference on which further 
attempts to integrate construction processes using BIM as source data. For practice, the hope is that 
we’ve shown the possibilities of BIM integration, as well as which steps to take to get there.
7.2 Limitations 
The research presented in this thesis has several limitations. First of all, context of all the gathered 
data is one medium sized Dutch construction firm, which, while representative for de Dutch 
construction industry, is still just one firm. The architecture should be validated in a wider array of 
organizations. Furthermore, all data is focused on the Dutch AEC industry. Other markets may or may 
not be organized entirely differently, so results are not automatically applicable everywhere else. 
Lastly, only one business process was prototyped. For further validation, a higher level of integration 
should be prototyped spanning several processes. This was not feasible within the time frame of this 
work. 


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7.3 Future Work 

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