We aim to capture everything: the building, the equipment, operations, software, hazards, quality requirements, whatever is important in that system.
When Jack Ricketts contacted her about his desire to digitise planning, it seemed a perfect opportunity..Stages of information transfer in design and construction.
There are various stages of information involved in the creation of a new building, or an extension of a domestic dwelling.Architects produce one set of information to one set of criteria, submitting it to planners who then need another, and particular, set of information.From there it goes to the people who might approve the building, or the people constructing the building.
In reality, though, all of these people just need slightly different slices of the same information.If everyone could agree and collect information to the same standards, sharing the same pieces of information upon creation, and when changed, it would unblock the system and lead to significantly greater efficiency..
While early BIM slides had a digital thread looping operational data all the way around, in fact there are all sorts of breakpoints.
The handover from construction into operation never works particularly effectively, and we never really get that kind of handover into the capital model.In order to enable a digitised planning process, the core requirement is to:.
Standardise and digitise (as far as possible and/or desirable) the rules under which designs are - by different parties - created, submitted, assessed, consulted on, amended, approved and ultimately built.. Agree the interoperable standard datasets that will enable this, and how to generate and use them.. As already said, the aim of this project is not to create a single solution for this process; we do not believe a single solution is in anyone’s best interests.We are interested in realising the environment within which one or multiple solutions can be developed and operate together.. To date we have focused on scoping each stage of the process and developing a demo version of how a digital planning process would operate.
The demo version is a series of dashboards showing how sets of interoperable data will enable the planning process at its various stages; which elements can be automated and which will require human intervention; and where we can connect with existing solutions.. Standardising and digitising the rules and datasets will enable us to move from demo to reality.. As said earlier, this is not a question of starting from scratch (or reinventing the wheel): the data already generated through the use of BIM and 3D modelling will form the basis of this process.Established formats such as BCF already allow for rich data sharing (although they are not always used to achieve this).