Planning
Data Exchange Standards Activity

Programming
ASHRAE ASHRAE Guideline 0-2005, The Commissioning Process, describes how to verify that a facility and its systems meet the owner’s project requirements.
Autodesk Space analysis
Bentley Space analysis, optimization.
BLIS PREMISS project is defining a requirements model, which can be linked to the design model. This requirements model can serve as basis for an IFC extension.
gbXML Is used to communicate early phase green building goals or targets.
Graphisoft Supporting the CIFE PREMISS - Requirements Management Interface to Building Product Models, using IFC.
IAI Yes. 70% covered*. Building commissioning is implicitly covered by having a model, but the process itself is not. (* covered means that IFC model has the capability to store the required information)
IFMA IFMA has developed the Area Measurement Standard ASTM E 1836-01 Standard Classification for Building Area Measurement.
NIBS Whole Building Design Guide - Comprehensive internet-based portal to a wide range of federal and private sector, building related guidance, criteria & technology. It links information across traditional professional disciplines to encourage integrated thinking and a "whole building" approach to the project during the planning/ programming, design, use, construction, operation, and maintenance of the facility.

As a registered CES provider, the WBDG CES system is a source of AIA Continuing Education System learning units for registered architects. The courses featured offer an introduction to whole building design concepts as well as more specific applications for design objectives, building types and operations and maintenance. All courses are currently available free of charge. www.wbdg.org

buildingSMART ® - buildingSMART is the dynamic and seamless exchange of accurate, useful information on the built environment among all members of the building community throughout the lifecycle of a facility. buildingSMART is simply a smarter process for managing the project lifecycle.

In January 2007, NIBS’ Board of Directors unanimously approved the buildingSMART® Alliance charter created to spearhead technical, political, and financial support for advanced digital technology in the real property industry—from concept, design and construction through operations and management. The new public/private initiative expands on goals of the North American Chapter of the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI-NA), whose Industry Foundation Classes (IFCs) have initiated open standards for national and international links among industry players, and will serve developers and users of Building Information Models (BIMs), the digital tools that are increasingly helping to share highly accurate information throughout a facility’s life cycle. www.iai-na.org/bsmart

National BIM Standard™ (NBIMS) a buildingSMART® initiative - National Building Information Model Standard, Version 1.0—Part 1
  1. Overview, Principles, and Methodologies (PDF 13.3 MB)
  2. Appendices and References (PDF 2.6 MB)
This comprehensive document developed for the past year and released in the spring of 2007 is the collaboration of over thirty subject matter experts from many areas of the capital facilities industry. There are many Building Information Modeling (BIM) issues to discuss, coordinate, and resolve, not only throughout the United States, but also with our international counterparts. It is hoped that this effort will facilitate discussion and bring to closure any areas of confusion. The NBIM committee is also finalizing their consensus process based on the NIBS NCS consensus process. Ballots will be developed for various items needing consensus voting. It is anticipated that NBIMS Version 1, Part 2 will be available near the end of 2008. www.facilityinformationcouncil.org/bim
OSCRE 1- Members of OSCRE’s REAL PROPERTY UNIQUE IDENTIFIER WORK GROUP (RPUID-WG) are currently developing a new business process that will associate a unique non-intelligent identification code to all properties, buildings and structures. All user defined and local regulatory agency numbers can associate to the RPUID.

This standard will apply RPUID’s to Non-Linear Assets such as Buildings and Linear Assets such as roadways, runways, tunnels, parking lots.

This standard has garnered interest and value to all stakeholders across the real property supply chain.

“Design a conceptual and organizational structure to manage the standard for building/property identifiers that is usable across a broad range of users and constituents.”
  • Ease the matching and reconciliation of disparate data sources.
  • Manage the dispute resolution of identification conflicts in mapping of different data sources.
  • Define a standard that can be used across all types of industries and properties.
  • Define the minimal core attributes of property that are needed to ensure unique identification.
  • Investigate RPUID distribution mechanisms.
  • Discuss the merits of a single source repository.
  • Allow for compatibility with existing identification schemas.
Scope and Success Criteria
The scope of the Working Group is as follows:
  • Define the RPUID standard data structures and process definitions in the OSCRE standard, to the degree that the definitions already exist, and to create new definitions as needed to allow for a unique identification for each unit of real property.
  • Identify constituents who would benefit from the RPUID.
  • Identify appropriate groups to form governance over the life of the project.
  • Recommend processes by the RPUID that could be administered.
Business Values
Assist in achieving multiple objectives within each adopting organization for synergies in data collection, reference, and use.
  • Creates a credible model for working with real property data for adaptors.
  • Creates a tool for moving towards common rather than divergent.
  • Better opportunities to benchmark through ease in matching different data elements supplied from different sources around individual assets.
  • Industry should be able to research property history as is currently possible for the automotive industry with CarFax.com that provides on-line, fee based reports of a specific vehicle based on its Vehicle Identification Number (VIN). This concept has been met with enthusiasm by the investment, appraisal and brokerage industries and should provide significant value throughout the stakeholder supply chain.
Summary
If you’ve ever wanted to aggregate portfolio data – either from internal autonomous agencies or via acquisitions into a single repository, the RPUID Standard is intended to be the master link. This WG standard will also be of value to all other OSCRE WG’s as it will be across the Real Estate industry.


2- Members of OSCRE's STRATEGY AND PLANNING METRICS WORK GROUP (S&PM-WG) are expected to publish the following standards by 2QFY07:

A- GEOLOCATION STANDARD
Allows users to roll-up and drill-down any metric from the Global portfolio down to the Site level. B- SPACE CLASSIFICATION STANDARD
Breaks 100% of the floorplate out into 3+ levels of hierarchy by Classification Code and works in conjunction with reconciled BOMA/IFMA Floor Area Measurement Standards and Financial Chart of Accounts.

Space classifications have been used as best practices by a large number of firms since the 1980's and made popular with the use of Computer Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) applications. This is the first coordinated industry-wide effort to standardize this set of classifications that will bring consistency, transparency and apples to apples capabilities to the real property supply-chain.

Both GeoLocations and Space Classifications are considered Primary Level Data (PLD) elements that a large number of metrics and calculations are developed from.

C- SPACE UTILIZATION METRIC
This metric is designed to enable space and portfolio planners and managers obtain an accurate determination how much time workers occupy a variety of space classifications such as designated offices, conference rooms, labs, etc with the basic calculation Duration Workspace Used / Duration Workspace Available. A variety of audit methods are considered in the project.

Specific benefits for adopters of the proposed standard include the following items:
  • True understanding of the performance of the organization’s real estate portfolio, resulting in significant infrastructure cost savings which can be realized by evolving from the current practice of Systems Integration to Standards Adoption.
  • Other areas of potential costs savings include those typically found within the Owner/Operator business processes and described within the International Facility Management Associations (IFMA) Benchmark Survey III Research Report #18, listing business process categories and associated costs per square foot.
  • More time dedicated to useful analysis and less time needed for data consolidation and reconciliation;
  • Robust data sharing due to connectivity improvements;
  • Easier, more effective communications with other parts of the organization such as EH&S, Security, Finance, IT, and HR;
  • Less time and money spent on initial system implementation and systems integration;
  • Quicker, easier deployment of systems. More efficient integration of new systems, such as integration needed following mergers and acquisitions, and greater agility to switch between systems and service providers as needed;
  • Easier and more effective benchmarking through more consistent performance metrics;
  • Better, more credible communications with senior executives;
  • Reduce/eliminate ‘reinventing the wheel’ by grabbing workplace standards off the shelf instead of developing new ones or having to decide on which corporate standard to adopt after acquisitions and mergers. Less time spent on developing consensus on definitions;
  • Suggested approaches to metrics that reflects new workplace strategies and uses, such as activity-based rather than allocation based use of space, which will support better evaluation of space usage and better decision-making.
Summary
The S&PMWG is also working on developing a standard set of Space Classifications that align with BOMA and IFMA’s Floor Area Measurement Standard allowing building owners, managers and investors to accurately and quickly; identify, quantify and compare types of space either within a building, site or across your entire portfolio. This will provide better performance metrics on CAM, Loss Factor, Rentable/Usable/Assignable areas. The output from this work group might very well have the greatest impact not only across all other OSCRE WG’s, but quite possibly the entire Real Estate supply chain.
PISCES Currently reviewing 1) Area Measurement Standards; Building and Space Classification Standards, Forecasting, Metric Analysis, Forecasting, BIM's for Financial (Depreciation and other Owner driven models) and Modeling.
Solibri Solibri Model Checker contains rich set of analysis functionality for the task. Comparing BIM/IFC information with e.g. space program or housing plan in Excel format.

Pre-Project Planning
AISC The Steel Solutions Center provides Conceptual Solutions, including framing studies and cost and schedule information, to steel construction industry professionals. Our Conceptual Solutions cannot replace the engineer of record's work. They are designed to help interested parties select framing materials for their project based upon reasonable estimates of time and money.

A typical Conceptual Solution can include:
  • Framing system comparisons based on economy, ease of erection and project schedule
  • Simple floor framing bay studies and optimized column layouts
  • Evaluation of steel framing systems for project specific requirements including low floor-to-floor heights, long clear spans, vibration, special foundation conditions, and more
  • Member sizes and steel quantities based on comprehensive framing studies, including gravity and lateral systems
  • Building Code review for steel parking structures
  • Information on protective coating systems for exposed steel
Autodesk Approvals process, design review, feasibility studies.
Bentley Approvals Process/Workflow, sharing of information for public involvement, design review, feasabilty studies.
BLIS Space Layout Editor from Digital Alchemy is a tool that loads a client space program from Excel and generates space objects in Visio. It includes several tools to optimize space layout. Combined with Digital Alchemy's IFC Model Exchange module for Visio, the spaces + any building elements added in Visio can be exported for more detailed design in other CAD products. Note: the resulting IFC model is a fully conformant 3D IFC BIM.
FIATECH Map the Decision Pocess - This project described and mapped the decision-making process including participants, timing, milestones, inputs and outputs. COMPLETED.

Product and Process Survey and Analysis - This project identified and evaluated commercially-available, decision-modeling products capable of analyzing the particular complex nature of facilities and the interrelated variables. A second purpose of the evaluation was to decide if commercially-available models are adequate to meet our objectives or if additional development of decision models for this type of situation is needed. COMPLETED.
gbXML Is used to communicate early phase green building goals or targets.
IAI Yes. 60% covered -- connecting enterprise operational needs with facilities, defining functional requirements, public input, feasibility studies. Not covered -- A/E, CM selection and procurement, funding.
IFMA NOTE 1: While not primarily focused on standards development, IFMA on behalf of its 17,300 worldwide members is a major stakeholder in standards and regulations affecting Ownership, Leasing, Operations and Management of real estate assets and the built environment and would appreciate the opportunity to participate in developing standards in this area.
NIBS Whole Building Design Guide (WBDG), buildingSMART alliance and NBIMS - see above.
Primavera Yes, creates XML (100%)
Solibri Automated rule-based Design Review supported.

Contracts
AISC Appendix to AISC Code of Standard Practice: Guidelines for 3D Modeling. The provisions in this Appendix shall apply when the contract documents indicate that an Electronic 3-dimensional electronic Logical Product Model (LPM) is to be used as the primary means of data exchange for the project.
IAI Yes. Project participant and contact info covered. Contracts can be referenced, but content not defined in IFC.
NIBS Whole Building Design Guide (WBDG), buildingSMART alliance and NBIMS - see above.
OSCRE Yes. OSCRE International (PISCES) is developing data standards for electronic Contract Transactions, though more focused towards Real Estate transactions. Additionally, up front language required for changes in handoff of project closeout documentation.
Primavera Yes, creates XML (100%).
Solibri Solibri Model Checker is used for Quality Assurance and BIM Guide Compliance.