Webinars

On-demand Webinars

How to implement bSDD and IDS with Plannerly: A Step-by-Step Guide

Date: Thursday, May 26 2023

Join Clive and Akos, Co-founders of Plannerly, and check out their Step-by-Step Guide!

They cover the following topics:
• What is bSDD and IDS?
• Why should you use them for your BIM projects?
• How do you implement bSDD and IDS with Plannerly?
• Best practices on getting started.

At the end of this session, you will gain a better understanding of how bSDD and IDS can help your team collaborate more effectively.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to simplify your BIM implementation process.

Speakers: Clive Jordan and Akos Hamar

Masterclass: ZOOM in on IDS

Date: Wednesday, May 10th 2023

IDS is a standard that is finally finding its way to a broader audience. I am in the front row of that audience and I will show you what IDS is. What it does and how it works. From the perspective of a modeller, not a programmer. I create building models full of information. In this presentation, I will show you how IDS helps me control that information. How it saves me time while being more accurate than two, or even four, human eyes. Join me and learn about all the facets of IDS so you can start using it too.

Speaker: Menno Mekes

openBIM for the energy performance of historical buildings in the MED area

Description:
1. Introduction of the speakers and the BEEP partners
2. What is the role of buildingSMART International (Aidan Mercer)
3. Which services buildingSMART International provides to support openBIM in any country in the world (Céline Bent)
4. How to design a national roadmap to promote openBIM in a country (Anna Moreno)
5. buildingSMART Professional Certification in Italy: present and future step (Lorenzo Nissim)
6. Brief introduction of the two guidelines on energy performance and BIM, published by IBIMI, and the energy performance and BIM qualification (Anna Moreno)
7. BIM-based processes for energy improvement of built heritage, BEEP and TECH-START projects (Elena Gigliarelli, Filippo Calcerano)
8. Q&A

Speakers:

Aidan Mercer, Céline Bent, Anna Moreno, Lorenzo Nissim, Elena Gigliarelli, Filippo Calcerano

Accelerating the Virtual Reality Workflow through openBIM with Vrex and BricsCAD

Discover the new collaboration between BricsCAD BIM and Vrex to improve the model exchange workflow, enabling users to create detailed models in BricsCAD BIM and export to the Vrex Virtual Reality (VR) platform with minimal effort.

Learn how Vrex and BricsCAD BIM leverage the openBIM standards IFC and BCF to deliver a fluent collaborative workflow from design to coordination.

This enhanced workflow enables architecture, engineering, construction, and operations companies to streamline collaboration between the multiple stakeholders working together on a project in a VR environment.

Speakers:

Ruben Decuypere, Rune Vandli, Chris Keyack

ifcSpatialZone: Intermediate Expert Panel and Call for Participation

During this webinar, the team delivered a short insight into the project and presented some interactive questions, following the agenda below:

Greeting and welcome from bSI and the project
Introduction of the project team
Project overview with Interactive Questions (online interactive survey)
Call for Expert Panel participation and for Sponsorship
Q&A

In conversation with COBie founder Dr Bill East

Watch back this virtual drop-in session with COBie founder Dr. Bill East, Chair of buildingSMART International COBie Certification Subcommittee, Director of the COBie Academy, and Founder of Prairie Sky Consulting.

Do you practice COBie on your projects? Are you looking for some expert guidance on how to maximize your use of COBie? Bill answered questions from the audience and gave personalized advice in this hour-long drop-in session.

GIS and openBIM drive innovation, communication and success for Skanska

Join GIS and BIM leaders from Skanska UK whose use of openBIM and GIS drives innovation, improves communication and leads to success on some of England’s largest infrastructure projects. Hear the story behind the project and learn where IFC is being used in Tender, Design and Construction on HS2 and Highways England RDP.

The complexity of these linear infrastructure projects, the environmental impact of the construction and operation, and the sizes of projects require the input and collaboration of a large team of design and geospatial experts.

This session highlighted how Skanska’s approach to openBIM and their use of GIS lead to successfully making available many types of data and brought value to all teams and stakeholders.

The webinar introduced an integrated approach leveraging GIS and openBIM, showing how together they improve digital delivery and productivity. Using specific project examples, Skanska’s leaders explained how streamlining workflows between BIM software was accomplished with IFC data as a key to the approach. You will leave this session understanding how maximizing GIS and BIM expands value to all technical and non-technical teams throughout the lifecycle of the infrastructure.

Speakers:

Dr Anita Soni - Deputy Head of BIM, Skanska Infrastructure & SCS Railways

George Floros PhD(c), MSc., MEng. - GIS Lead – Infrastructure, Skanska UK

Marc Goldman - Director - AEC Industry Solutions, Esri

Supporting COBie Implementation

Watch this virtual event as it guides you through the process of COBie implementation. Listen to our a panel of COBie specialists, not just those who have worked within the COBie environment, but specialists who are in a small, elite group of COBie Certified Professionals™.

COBie Founder and Chair of the buildingSMART International COBie Certification Subcommittee, Dr Bill East leads the discussion with Emma Hooper, John Ford and Shawn O’Keeffe – all of whom are practicing COBie at its highest level.

The panel focuses on the five delivery steps of: People, Partners, Stakeholders, Process and Technology – looking at each step in turn and who is responsible for their effective implementation. The panel breaks down what this means for all across the supply chain and how this brings about project efficiencies

Speakers

Dr Bill East, Chair, buildingSMART International COBie Certification Subcommittee and Founder of Prairie Sky Consulting

Emma Hooper, Digital Information Specialist, Bond Bryan

John Ford, Group BIM & Digital Delivery Lead, Galliford Try

Dr Shawn O’Keeffe, CTO, Chief Scientist, and Co-founder at BIM & Scan Ltd

BIM Collaboration Format (BCF) 3.0

Learn about the latest version of BCF 3.0 from the team and find out how this industry service is helping improve collaboration on projects.

Agenda:

a) What is BCF? How does it work in practical workflows? (Frank Weiss)

b) What are the new features/issues fixed in version 3.0? (Yoram Kulbak and Pasi Paasiala)

c) Overview of how this fits into a broader picture of API developments and buildingSMART Solutions (Léon van Berlo)

d) Where to find informational material, e.g. videos, documentation, examples, etc. (Aidan Mercer)

e) Questions

Bricsys: Bringing automation to the OpenBIM workflow

The promise of OpenBIM is a considerable efficiency gain in the construction phase. By “building virtually” we avoid mistakes on the construction site, hence reducing costs, timing issues, etc.
But what about designers, architects and engineers? Creating detailed and data-rich BIM models is often considered to be a labor-intensive task, but it doesn’t need to be.

Automation, leveraging the power of AI and Machine Learning, can relieve designers from the repetitive and laborious tasks it takes to get from a first sketch, to a full-blown data-rich BIM model, ready for IFC export.
Think automatic classification, AI-supported increase of LOD and more.

In this webinar you will learn about:
• How AI-algorithms can remove the laborious manual work in your design workflow
• How IFC-models can be used in a design-first workflow
• How the OpenBIM workflow can benefit from automation tools for classification, detailing and data integrity
• Increasing the LOD of your model with AI tools that automatically apply the right connection type to the correct nodes

Speakers:

Ruben Decuypere, Chi-Yan Tang

‘Open House’ on the Role of open Standards for Regulators

The buildingSMART Regulatory Room hosted the first of a series of ‘Open House’ sessions planned to occur in-between the biannual buildingSMART Summits. ‘Open House’ will showcase the work of the Regulatory Room and pick up a particular theme, starting with ‘The Role of Open Standards for Regulators’, to introduce the benefits and opportunities that digitalisation can offer to Regulatory Agencies. Attendees are encouraged to question and challenge the speakers.

Speakers:

Nicholas Nisbet, Franco Coin

Digital Feedback Loops: How to Track Integrated Engineering Change in AEC Projects Without the Heavy Lift

The software engineering discipline has figured out how to bring solutions to market quickly by iterating with end-users. Agile methods focus on accomplishing the outcomes desired by the end-user and place emphasis on the “outside-in” perspective. Learn about

How digital twin approaches can deliver digital feedback loops
Integrating engineering change into digital feedback loops
How to perform a design review or clash inspection whenever you chose to
Reducing the manual work related to design reviews
How digital twins empower engineers
iModels and their role in consuming IFC data

Speaker:

Pavan Emani, Bentley Systems

The Digital Supply Chain in Built Environment (DSCiBE)

The Digital Supply Chain in Built Environment (DSCiBE) team is pleased to announce that registration for the next online workshop is now open. This is the 8^th workshop since its launch in March 2019.

Following on from the successful workshops in 2019, the teams from bSI, GS1, Cobuilder and IBM are pleased to share further insights and key topics that relate to digital supply chains in the built environment.

Watch it now!

Demystifying Digital Twins

Digital twins are on the rise. Increasingly this concept of connecting the physical and digital world, is adopted as the next step in digital transformation. In this presentation we give an introduction to the concept of digital twins, the way they can be supportive in business decisions and share concrete examples across the life cycle and from multiple sectors.

Speaker:

Bart Brink, Royal Haskoning

Bringing AEC Information into a Geospatial Context

Join buildingSMART International and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) for the first of two Webinars on integrating AEC and Geospatial workflows, technical objectives, success stories and community best practices involving key domains in Geo-BIM.

Speakers:

Maya Tryfona, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Adam Rendek VueOps/DPR & bSI Chair Airport Room
Mats Kahlström, NGI
Edward De Wit, the City of Den Haag
Gert-Jan Groenewoud, Studioschaeffer

Modelling Resilience through Digital Twinning

Join buildingSMART International and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) for the second of two Webinars on how digital twins can deliver more resilience through better AEC modeling and GIS information management. In this Webinar, hear from speakers from:

OYO Corporation
Meta Moto
City of Rotterdam

Speakers:

Richard Simpson, Meta Mota
Hiro Shima, OYO Corporation
Louis Smit, City of Rotterdam
Christian Veldhuis, City of Rotterdam