Using IFC models for asset management

Rick_BriceRick_Brice
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I work in the US transportation sector for a State Department of Transportation. We are trying to wrap our heads around BIM/IFC and all the great stuff that's related. I have a question. IFC models for project development, contracting, construction, eventually end up as As-Built models. A project may cover a mile or two of roadway. Our transportation network has 1000s of miles with millions of individual assets that must be managed. We do many projects a year (don't have a count but let's say 500+ of varying sizes and complexity).

When it comes to using the IFC models for asset management and operations, what do people do to keep all the information organized? How can you do a system-wide query across your entire agency's asset inventory when everything is in project-based models?

I supposed a corollary would be a someone who owns multiple buildings, with a model for each building, that wants to get information about all their buildings across their entire asset portfolio.

What software tools do people use for this?

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  • DimitrisDimitris
    edited May 20

    Hi @Rick_Brice ,

    You might want to check on https://pooledfund.org/Details/Study/624, and https://bimclearinghouse.com/ as I understand there is a "BIM for Infrastructure is a collaborative work method for structuring, managing, and using an agency’s enterprise-wide data and information for transportation assets throughout their life cycles. BIM is about “liberating” data from siloed systems and making it available in an automated way to anyone who needs it when they need it. This website - developed under Transportation Pooled Fund Study TPF-5(480) - provides technical guidance for leveraging the concepts of BIM and open data standards, and guidelines for information management across all phases of the built environment., I think there might be more info on the subject from the state authorities themselves.

  • Rick_BriceRick_Brice

    @Dimitris thank you for the reply. I'm involved with that project. This question has come up several times and we don't have a good answer.
    This same question has come up for a sign lifecycle management project I'm involved with. The only solution we've found is https://github.com/IfcSharp/IfcSQL. It doesn't look all that promising since no one is really working on the project (commits are over a year old).

    I was hoping to gain some insights from other that have to manage large numbers of geographically dispersed assets.

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