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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