Construction Product Data and Building Information Models: a Flexible Model for Incorporating Constructionproduct Data into Building Information Models

This book presents a solution concept that linkscontinually updated and extensible life-cycle productdata to a software independent building informationmodel (IFC) all over the life span of the productitself. The solution concept has managed to reach areliable building information model that is capableof being kept up to date and containing validinformation about construction products. In themeantime, the solution concept presented in this bookis capable of referencing, retrieving, updating, andmerging product data at any point in time. Adistributed network application that represents allthe involved parties in the construction productvalue chain is simulated by real software tools todemonstrate the proof of concept of this researchwork. The work is entirely based on the IFCSTEP/EXPRESS technologies in addition to Java RemoteMethod Invocation and 2D graphics. The research workpresented in this book has won the first rankingprise in the field of IT in Civil Engineering in theAuf IT gebaut 2007" competition in Germany. "