Standard digital deliverables for construction" (in spanish... EDEC)
Hi ! From the Ministerio de Obras Públicas of Argentina we are initiating the elaboration of regulations that define the "Standard digital deliverables for construction" (in spanish... EDEC). It is about precisely defining the content and form of the IFC and PDF files that make up a project delivery or quotation so that they are standard and a true "Big Data" of construction can be built with them. The project will include the development of open source viewers so that they can be viewed and controlled without proprietary software.
What do you think about it? Any contribution?
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Hi @joselaks this is really interesting to me as I work for New Zealand's government social housing provider, Kāinga Ora. We are currently trying to work out what BIM or IFC means to an organisation that owns over 60000 houses and are building 2000 plus a year.
Sorry for the late reply, but this sounds incredibly important @joselaks . I think a big part is that if open data like IFC is not requested, then all the building data you collect has an expiry date. For Revit, the hard deadline is 5 years. In practice, beyond 3 years you start getting really nasty upgrade bugs. Anybody with a large real estate portfolio will realise it is completely impractical to base their digital data on proprietary data - the sheer cost of merely stopping it from expiring and upgrading and fixing "bit rot" is tremendous.
The elephant in the room is that once you've got a bunch of IFC on your hands, whilst there's a lot of viewers out there, it's pretty much a static medium right now which significantly limits its usability. This is something that we need to invest in - Native IFC authoring platforms like the BlenderBIM Add-on, exchange platforms like Speckle, cloud viewers like IFC.JS, etc.