making infrastructure work: bim meets geospatial (rollo home, ordnance survey)
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Integration of our Nation’s Infrastructure
Rollo Home
Senior Product Manager
14 November 2013
• First map of Kent in 1801.
Unclassified
Introductions
25 March 2013 …
The bigger picture …
www.fwi.co.uk
“… out-going Government Chief Scientist
warns of floods, droughts and storms ...”
Actually much more than this:
• Growth in population – 1Billion in the next 12 years
• Development of cities
• … and the impacts of climate change
Professor Sir John Beddington
: Iron Hide
: Iron Hide
Smart services to transform
the efficiency and
sustainability of communities,
leading to reduction in service
costs and carbon emissions,
improving the quality of life for
all.
“Everything that happens in
the world has to happen
somewhere.” Hugh Abbott, The
Thick of It
BIM meets geospatial
• BIM meets geospatial
o Are these things really incompatible? ….
o … we used to talk of CAD and GIS in the same way.
• … but for the meantime I want to explore the geospatial
connection in three different ways – how does geospatial serve
to integrate our nation’s infrastructure?
o Visualising the appearance of new places
o Mapping a sense of place
o Modelling a sense of function
The basic data requirements
• Data must be consistent
• Data must model the real world – not simply map it or allow
visualisation. The demand is for data that supports modelling of
processes
• Data should be authoritative – to a readily available specification
• Features in the real world must be identifiable
• Data must be maintainable and maintained
Just about visualisation …
Image courtesy of Autodesk Uk
Just about visualisation …
3D - Two centuries of learned behaviour…
We carefully survey
urban landscapes and
model them in 2D…
…for users to apply this
2D data to help make
decisions which are
inherently 3-dimensional.
Slide 14
3D drivers in the UK
Data analytics
Smart cities
Climate change adaption
Consultative planning
Right to light
Protected views
BIM Situational awareness
Pervasive 3D media
Risk
Carbon reduction
Some challenging parameters for 3D developments
Survey standards
Maintained
Nationally consistent
Underpinning,
interoperable, analytical
Economical
‘More’ than this ‘Less’ than this
What do we mean by ‘analytical 3D’?
Application level Description Example
1: Pure visual Getting a sense of place or
navigating to a destination
A fly-through or personal routing
display (e.g. web search giants)
2: Visual-
analytical
Making judgements or decisions,
informed by visual information
provided by 3D.
Viewing a planned development from
different perspectives to see how it
would impact on views of a city
3: Propagation
analysis
Using 3D-based algorithms to
analyse phenomena such as
visibility, shade, noise or airborne
pollution
Running a viewshed or noise
mapping analysis
4: Topological
analysis
Querying the model in terms of
spatial relationships
Querying all roads less than 30m
from buildings with a volume greater
than 5000 cu m
5: Database
analysis
Using identifiers to relate the 3D
model to associated datasets
Querying the ownership status of
buildings with roof suitable for solar
power generation
"What we are trying to do is take all of the information that we as a
city collect on a day-to-day basis... and synthesise it to do
something useful."
Mike Flowers: Office of Policy and Strategic Planning, New
York City
BIM / COBIE Compliant Asset Register (Facility)
BIM / COBIE Compliant Asset Register (Product)
Functional Site
TOID
Address
Access Points( )
Classification X-
Ref
COBie class
Uniclass
UPRN
Connecting BIM and GIS
• BIM/GIS info connected through
• National Identifiers (e.g. TOID, UPRN) and
• COBie classification
GIS BIM
OS SiteTOID
COBie class
COBie
Facility/SiteCOBie class
TOID
Asset
Register 1COBie Products
Asset in BIM
modelCOBie Products
TOID, UPRN reference
(as URL for linked data or as key for GIS)
Added to Asset register
Extending use of Asset Register
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Functional Site
TOID (x)
- Address - Access Points
- Classification References - COBie Class:Facility
- Uniclass - NLPG
TOIDs (Site and all surfaces)
X
Y
Z
Topography (Flagpole)
TOID
- Classification References - COBie Class:Product
- Uniclass - NLPG
Benefits / Use Cases
Reporting
CAD / BIM model of building or facility
GIS BIM
# Elevators
Maintenance List
- Elevator - where is it
(point to geography) Use hyperlink
Interfaces
Facility Class TOID
OS Magician to collate links/mappings
Elevator belongs to
COBie Class:Product
Asset List - Elevators
Referencing BIM to
Geospatial
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Show totals (installations, sites, etc.) against geographic
backdrop
Query assets/products/maintenance in
GIS
Aggregating information and exploiting proximity
• Query in a GIS environment aggregating COBie product information for
geographic areas (how many elevators need to be serviced in the South-East within the next quarter?)
• Query in a BIM environment finding similar/related products nearby
(list all items by the same manufacturer within a 20 mile radius)
GIS BIM
National initiatives - data sharing and interoperability
We have good experiences to build on:
• “DNF is an industry standard for the sharing and integration of business and geographic information from multiple sources.”
• “The Atlantis Initiative seeks to provide
better integrated geographical and environmental information to support decisions on flooding.”
Connecting data in 2D: intelligent geospatial referencing
Creation of a definitive National Addressing Gazetteer
Key projects cutting across government and engaging the citizen
Smart services to transform the
efficiency and sustainability of
communities ……. improving the
quality of life for all
Requires a change from simply
mapping place to creating a
model that supports the
modelling of environmental
and social processes.
Real-world view
Structuring of the real world in an underpinning framework
• Identification and management of common function
Functional Sites Extents: Capturing the Access Points
OS MasterMap Sites Layer: Referencing ITN
More sophisticated networks
• Detailed River Network
Scottish Detailed River Network (Clyde area)
Pre Alpha, February 2012
More sophisticated networks
• Detailed Rail Network
From mapping place to enabling the underpinning DNA of a city
created by BIM to be exposed and connected to the geographic
features that control process and function in the landscape …
… we’re well beyond geospatial being relevant to BIM …
… we must not miss the opportunity to ensure that data created to
underpin new infrastructure in the next decade is immediately wired
into to the ecosystems of tomorrow’s smart(er) communities
… a significant proportion of our effort should be focussing on
making sure that our nation’s infrastructure is a truly integrated asset
In summary