Current projects

CI-2 Bridge

CAD systems and engineering design programs are essential to designers, contractors and government entities. This led some participants of this project to develop software dedicated to the bridge domain.

CI-3 Industry Foundation Classes for GIS (IFG)

There is a significant overlap between the AEC world and the GIS world. Buildings are constructed facilities that are placed within the world. Satisfaction of the scope of the project provides sufficient information from stored GIS data to enable the various design requirements of a building to proceed.

EL-2 Electrical Installations in Buildings

This project will focus on some of the issues left out of scope in the earlier EL-1 project.

FM-10 Commissioning data for facility management from IFC model

Agreement on the information needed to be submitted for completed buildings (or buildings undergoing an inventory). The source of the information may be design or construction BIM models, inventory data, or existing facility management data.

PM-4 Quantity take-off from the IFC model

Enables the use of a neutral BIM (building information model) for cost estimation and calculation processes across the boundaries of proprietary software solutions. It should allow project teams to collaborate while using CAD and cost estimation / calculation software tools of their choice.

RE-1 Real Estate Cost Recovery

Upon completion of new construction or capital projects, clients are forced to identify and segregate building components in order to take advantage of accelerating depreciation (5 - 25 years) for significant financial gains via the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery Systems (MACRS). In most cases clients simply depreciate new construction over 39-year straight-line depreciation method because they either are not aware of MACRS or it is too difficult a process to breakout building elements. The financial advantages of MACRS directly affect the corporate bottom line.

ST-5 Structural Timber Model

The focus of the project is on optimization of computer based cooperation between design and fabrication of timber structures. This will not only reduce the number of errors, time and cost but will also meet customer needs far better and more specifically than in the past. The project greatly benefits from long term experience of its members in the fields of integrated data exchange from design through to production lines.

ST-6 CIS/2 - IFC Harmonization

CIS/2 is a mature, widely used product model for building structural steel. It address steel design, analysis, detailing, fabrication (manufacturing) and erection. CIS/2 has 15 well-developed application interfaces and is used daily in production projects. The business segment CIS/2 addresses has important interfaces (use cases) with the rest of the construction industry. Thus it makes a strong business case to facilitate interoperability between CIS/2 and IFC.

ST-7 Finite Element Model, Dynamic Analysis Process, and Assignment

Extending defined structural analysis model to the finite element model, extending the defined structural analysis concepts to include dynamic analysis, assigning structural analysis results to structural analysis model.

XM-7 Harmonization of ISO 12006 Part 3 with IFC

Mapping of concepts between IFC and ISO PAS 12006 part 3.

XM-9 IFC drafting extension - Phase 2

Follow-up of XM-4 IFC drafting extension: annotations, drawing sheet, viewing pipeline.