GIS meets BIM

1. GIS Meets BIM Slide 1GIS Meets BIM
GIS Meets BIM
Steven Eglinton FBCS, FBCart.S, MIoD
Director, GeoEnable
Chairman Asset Management SIG
Association for Geographic Information (AGI)
Chairman, Business Information Systems SG
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Esri UK Annual Conference
LONDON | 19 May 2015
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2. GIS Meets BIM
GIS meets BIM - AGENDA
• How BIM will affect us all
• How can we add value to BIM
• Opportunities for GIS professionals
• Summary
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3. GIS Meets BIM
What is BIM?
•Depends who you ask!
• Building Information Models - things
•Building Information Modelling - tasks
•Building Information Management –
processes
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4. GIS Meets BIM
Building Information Modelling (BIM)
•“An integrated digital process
providing coordinated, reliable
information about a project and assets
throughout all phases, from design
through construction and into
operation”
•Better Information Management
•For all asset types – buildings and
infrastructure
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5. GIS Meets BIM
Building Information Modelling (BIM)
•Cross-discipline collaboration
•Standard methods and procedures
•Information provision is contracted
•Digital Plan of Works (DPoW)
•Enabling tools, workflows and
validation
•Exchange formats and standards
•Information / data is a commodity
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6. GIS Meets BIM
Information as a Commodity
•In economics, a commodity is a
marketable item produced to satisfy
wants or needs
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7. GIS Meets BIM
Common Data Environment - Context
•Common Data Environment (CDE)
•Defined in UK Standards BS 1192:2007
•Elaborated on in PAS 1192-2 and PAS
1192-3
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8. GIS Meets BIM
Common Data Environment - Data
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• File naming convention from BS 1192-2007:

9. GIS Meets BIM
Geospatial Convergence
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• Capture - Geomatics / Survey
• Plan – Planners, Town Planners
• Design - Architects / Designers
• Build - Client, Contractors, Supply chain
• Operate / Maintain - Client, Contractors, Supply
chain
• GIS and mapping – validation, presentation,
analytics/reporting, time sequencing, context to
projects and assets

10. GIS Meets BIM
Everything Happens Somewhere
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•Location provides context to data
•Location provides patterns, trends & gaps
•Maps are easier to understand
• ‘Placed-based’ planning is understood
• Proximity can connect people / Orgs
• Services Delivery depends on Location
•See opportunities to consolidate/augment
services

11. GIS Meets BIM
The big challenge is communication
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•Between systems
•Between data formats
•Between organisations
•Between disciplines

12. GIS Meets BIM
When is a polygon a polygon?
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•We can have language challenges!
Shapefiles
Dangling segments
Link-node models
Projections
Vector
Raster
Joins and Links
Points
Polylines
Polygons
Vertices
Snapping
Buffering
GeoProcesses
Dissolve
Merge
Union
Spatial Join
Models
Dynamic segmentation
‘Plotting’ data
GeoCoding
GIS
Self-intersecting Polygons
Doughnut
Polygon?

13. GIS Meets BIM
5 Major Opportunities
1. Real-world experience for users
2. GIS provides context to projects/assets
3. Spatial Analytics - Place-based
planning/focus of services
4. Spatial Analytics - Asset performance,
trending and patterns
5. Location is a common language for all
disciplines
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14. GIS Meets BIM Slide 14GIS Meets BIM Slide 14
Overview to GeoEnable
• “At GeoEnable we help you unlock your geospatial and
location information as part of workflows and
efficient business processes.”
• We democratise location information by embedding
location technologies
• We are UK-based, working with partners in the USA,
Brazil and Globally
• We are part of the Esri Partner Network and Esri
Developer Network
• Our UK and EMEA Director is Steven Eglinton

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Contact
Steven Eglinton FBCS, FBCart.S, MIoD
Director, GeoEnable
Chairman Asset Management SIG
Association for Geographic Information (AGI)
Chairman, Business Information Systems SG
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
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16. GIS Meets BIM Slide 16GIS Meets BIM
1. Case Study: King’s Cross
Development, Argent
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2. AEC Bundle, GeoEnable / Esri UK
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