DEVELOPMENT OF A NORMATIVELY STANDARDIZED CONTENT STRUCTURE FOR THE HARMONIZATION OF BIM USE CASES

Abstract

The demand for a formalized content structure to communicate and perform services in the context of Building Information Modeling is becoming increasingly indispensable for the understanding of BIM use cases in the German and international construction industry. Different market participants have already provided their own proposals, but no solution has yet been consistently successful established. To address this demand, the authors of the paper at hand have initiated a research project to develop the needed standardized content structure. Various nationally and internationally engaged experts from research and industry have been involved to develop this universally applicable structure within the framework of the German standardization institutions DIN and VDI, taking into account the perspectives of all involved stakeholder in BIM projects and existing standards. The structure therefore aims not to only describe a BIM use case on a general level but to be an aid for understanding and executing the service described including needed information and possibilities for quality assurance. This paper underlines the fundamental need of such a standard using the example of the (beforehand) current state of industry in the German speaking countries and presents the final results of this efforts to provide a standardized and applicable structure for BIM use cases. An outlook on further currently developed standardization approaches is additionally given