Standardized rule checking of BIM

Posted by Håvard Bell on Dec 20, 2009 in Blog, Publications | 1 comment

There is almost no limit to what you can do with a building information model (BIM), once you have the data. Imagine all the different analysis or simulations you can do, once you have a virtual building to play with! Useful software is already showing up, a very good example of this i Solibri Model Checker. The real challenge with this, however, is to develop a way to standardize the rules. Statsbygg in Norway, Standards Norway and the National Office of Building Technology and Administration in Norway has all seen this challenge, and...