BIMSERVER.ORGAn overview

Léon van Berlo

INNOVATION FOR LIFE

“TNO connects people and knowledge to create innovations that boost the

sustainable competitive strength of industry and well-being of society“

TNO in short

• Netherlands largest research organization (top 3 in EU)

• Independent & not-for-profit

• Working closely with Academia, Public & Private industry

• Founded in 1932, head office in The Hague

THE POWER OF TNOFROM IDEA TO INNOVATION

TNO IN NUMBERS 2015

SCIENTIFIC PROFILE

BIM AT TNO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_information_modeling

GREAT TRACK RECORD

BIM expertise integrated in multi disciplinary teams.

Objective and independent in every aspect.

Great BIM track record:

First reference of ‘Building Information Model’ in publication (1992)

BIM Handbook in 1988 (!)

Worked on IFC since beginning

Leading role in open source BIM collective

Involved on several levels at BuildingSMART and openBIMstandards.org

Continuously critical on developments (objective/independent)

BIM AT TNO

Towards a ‘data driven industry’

education

data

processtools

OUR ‘FLAGSHIP’: BIMSERVER

BIMSERVER.ORG IS

Software

“A Platform”

To create an IFC based BIM database

Focussed on getting BIM data online (cloud)

Equipped with BIM specific features for data analyses and management

BIMSERVER = SOFTWARE

IFC based database

Plug-ins

API / Connections

BIMSERVER ARCHITECTURE

Plug-ins

API / Connections

Open standards, Object

based versioning,

Revisioning, User

management, Merging, etc.

Modelchecking,

(de)serialization, Render

engine, Services, compare,

add/edit/delete, etc.

Web services,

Authoring tools connections,

Visualisation, API (json,

soap), etc

IFC based database

Security/Authorisation/etc

Logging

Metrics

BIMSERVER ARCHITECTURE

Plug-ins

API / Connections

IFC based database

Non-IFC

Database

(BCF)

TECHNICAL

Open and stable core to use and build on top

Core server features like revisions, authorization, compare, query, modelchecking,

merging, etc..

Open interfaces, lots of network protocols (soap, OAuth, json)

Open standards (data and interface)

Plugin framework for render engines (like IfcOpenShell); Query engines (like BimQL)

Flexible admin configuration & fine-tuning

Good developers documentation and SDK

Open source

Etc..

BIMSERVER IS NOT ALONE

BIMSERVER.ORG:

mission is to help all actors in the Architectural, Engineering

and Construction (AEC) industry to collaborate/work more

efficiently and effectively

(and thereby creating better buildings for lower costs).

goal is to create the most favorite software platform for online

collaboration in the AEC-industry.

QUITE SOME TRACTION…

QUITE SOME TRACTION…

Site visits 2016

QUITE SOME TRACTION…1.(not set)

2.Beijing

3.Shanghai

4.London

5.Paris

6.Warsaw

7.Vienna

8.Melbourne

9.Berlin

10.Chennai

WHERE DID YOU USE BIMSERVER?

CHARTING

BCF Forum (design / issue management)

MODELCHECK

MODELCHECK

FLOORPLAN GENERATOR

L.A. Metro Westside Subway Extension

L.A. Metro Westside Subway Extension

Information inheritance between

Architectural data and

Supplier data

Spin-off products

LEARNING FROM COLLABORATION LOGS

SUPPLIERS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=878Kb_zaAFY

LOD Checker

BIMSERVER.ORG

Stable base to push innovation with tools, data and processes.

Started in 2008

Fully based on IFC (IFC2x3 and IFC4)

First ‘cloud’ system for BIM

Affero GPL and open interface which makes it suitable for commercial use

100.000 downloads in 2016

Growing number of commercial support agreements (software vendors;

government organisations; larger engineering firms; etc)

Awards for best performance and most stable

Broadly used and accepted in the industry

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION