Abstract
The integration of building information modelling (BIM) and geographic information system (GIS) in construction management is a new and fast developing trend in recent years, from research to industrial practice. BIM has advantages on rich geometric and semantic information through the building life cycle, while GIS is a broad field covering geovisualization-based decision making and geospatial modelling. However, most current studies of BIM-GIS integration focus on the integration techniques but lack theories and methods for further data analysis and mathematic modelling. This paper reviews the applications and discusses future trends of BIM-GIS integration in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry based on the studies of 96 high-quality research articles from a spatio-temporal statistical perspective. The analysis of these applications helps reveal the evolution progress of BIM-GIS integration. Results show that the utilization of BIM-GIS integration in the AEC industry requires systematic theories beyond integration technologies and deep applications of mathematical modeling methods, including spatio-temporal statistical modeling in GIS and 4D/nD BIM simulation and management. Opportunities of BIM-GIS integration are outlined as three hypotheses in the AEC industry for future research on the in-depth integration of BIM and GIS. BIM-GIS integration hypotheses enable more comprehensive applications through the life cycle of AEC projects.
Highlights
Worldwide growth of cities with rapid urbanization and global climate change are the two most critical issues in current world [1,2,3]
Evolution progress of building information modelling (BIM)-geographic information system (GIS) integration is characterized by three aspects: application evolution in AEC industry, history from the perspective of surveying and mapping, and comparison study of the evolution progresses of GIS, BIM and integrated BIM-GIS
This paper reviews previous BIM-GIS integration studies from a spatio-temporal statistical perspective to reveal its evolution progress and recommend future development trends
Summary
Worldwide growth of cities with rapid urbanization and global climate change are the two most critical issues in current world [1,2,3]. Smart sustainable city is an innovative city that has widely spread since the mid-2010s and aims at improving quality of life of present and future generations under the conditions of urbanization and global climate change [4,5,6]. BIM has advantages on rich geometric and semantic information through the building life cycle [11], while GIS is a broad field covering geovisualisation-based decision making and geospatial modelling [12]. Their respective advantages have been discussed in some of the previous review articles [8,13,14]. During the past ten years, BIM-GIS integration has been applied on multiple cases such as visualization of construction supply chain management [15], emergency response [16,17,18], urban energy assessment and management [19,20,21], heritage protection [22,23], climate adaption [24] and ecological assessment [25]
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