The buildingSMART openBIM Awards 2024 – Winners Announced
Marrakesh, Morocco – October 8th, 2024 — The openBIM Awards 2024 concluded with a ceremony on Thursday 3rd October 2024, at the majestic Beldi Country Club in Marrakesh. The ceremony followed a full day of presentations from 22 finalists, competing to win an openBIM Award. Four elite jury teams deliberated for the various categories, selecting 9 award winners and 2 special mentions.
The complete list of winners is as follows:
Category of CONSTRUCTION FOR BUILDINGS:
- Kier Construction – “Optimising Super Prison Delivery: Kier’s Collaboration with the MoJ Using Open Standards” – United Kingdom.
Category of CONSTRUCTION FOR INFRASTRUCTURE:
- China Communication Construction Company – “Successful information management innovations based on openBIM for Bogotá Metro Line 1” – Colombia.
Category of DESIGN FOR BUILDINGS:
- Hip Hing Engineering Company Limited – “Kai Tak Sports Park: Delivering a state-of-the-art design of a multipurpose sports complex with open and interoperable processes” – Hong Kong, China.
Category of DESIGN FOR INFRASTRUCTURE:
- Copenhagen Metro – “openBIM integration and data validation in conceptual design phase for the new M5 Metro Line” – Denmark.
Category of HANDOVER:
- Electrical and Mechanical Services Department, The Government of the Hong Kong SAR – “Transforming MEP Project Handover Practices: Embracing BCF, bSDD, IDS, IFC, and openBIM into BIM Asset Management Life Cycle” – Hong Kong, China.
Category of PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH:
- Mostostal Warszawa S.A. – “Assist-IoT: Smart Safety on Construction Site - IoT platform utilising openBIM and AI for automatic OSH monitoring and incident location with use of an IFC model” – Poland.
Category of STUDENT RESEARCH:
- The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology – “CarbonSmart: Automated Knowledge Graph-based Carbon Assessment and Tracking throughout the Construction Life Cycle using openBIM, openGIS, and Blockchain” – Hong Kong, China.
Category of SUSTAINABILITY:
- Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) – “Use, re-use but do not abuse resources: an openBIM approach to standardising terminology, data and processes for circular construction information management and exchange” – The Netherlands.
Category of TECHNOLOGY:
- BIM & Scan – “BIM & Scan® OpenOp: An openBIM Life-Cycle Management Platform - Validation and Reconstruction Tools” – Ireland.
Additionally, two of the finalists were awarded a Special Mention:
- Københavns Ejendomme – “KEJD Dataportal: Towards Next-Gen IFC” – Denmark.
- Polythecnic of Milan – “IFC COST: Redefining Cost Efficiency and Transparency in the AEC Industry” – Italy.
The openBIM Awards 2025 portal for submissions will open on 18th March 2025.
About buildingSMART International
buildingSMART International is a vendor-neutral and not for profit body that leads the development of open standards that support digital information flows across the built asset industry. Its mission is to proactively engage industry participants who want to develop open standards for planning, design, procurement, assembly and operation of buildings and infrastructure worldwide. It provides the international network plus the necessary technical and process support to develop consensus based open standards. Its members, who range from across the entire built environment spectrum, collaborate under the buildingSMART organization and management. buildingSMART also partners with other international standards bodies such as ISO, the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). Its core Industry Foundation Class (IFC) standard achieved ISO approval in 2012.
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