(BIM Strategies: BIM Specifications & Information Management)
This session will present a quick snapshot of BIM trends in contemporary practice and will show current examples of integrating BIM and specifications. You’ll learn how to transition to specifications in BIM models and the larger structure of integrating BIM and project information.
Trends in BIM and specification integration, examples of using the Specifiers Property Information Exchange (SPIE) data set, integrating building product models with BIM, and coordination with green building rating systems. Trends include structuring specification information for use in BIM models and improving design and specification coordination using BIM models.
An update of the use of specifiers’ property sets with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers demonstration projects integrating specifications, the Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBIE) and Product Guides of the Building Smart Alliance.
The potential for parametric indexing, search, and web services using a combination of OmniClass tables, MasterFormat, and UniFormat. Particular focus will include the normalization of facility and space type namespaces, attributes and properties, mapping between standards and formats, avoiding markup disasters, and the role of metadata and ontology. A landscape of related standards and current initiatives will be presented, culminating in an assessment of current adoption and use of open standards for a variety of stakeholder needs:
- How the sustainable design information of materials can be incorporated in a BIM model.
- Relationship of project information and materials in OmniClass and in BIM models.
- Information management and the relationship of CSI standards, BIM and MasterFormat.
Moderated By: Hosney Abdelgelil Project Controls Director of Hill International’s New York
Your Speakers:
Mark Kalin
Mr. Kalin is President of Kalin Associates, an independent specification consulting firm in the Boston area. He is a registered architect, CSI certified construction specifier, a LEED accredited professional, and a fellow in both the AIA and CSI. Mr. Kalin is currently President of Specification Consultants in Independent Practice (SCIP) and the primary author of the Specifiers’ Properties Information Exchange (SPIE) data sets He is also the current Chair of CSI¹s Sustainable Facilities Practice Group.
Deborah MacPherson
Deborah MacPherson works in Specifications and Research at Cannon Design, an Architectural Engineering firm with offices throughout the United States and around the world. She is a CSI Certified Construction Specifier, associate member of AIA, and active participant in Building Smart Alliance, OmniClass, and National Building Information Modeling Standard (NBIMS) working groups, and industry collaborations with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
John Patrick McCaffrey
Mr. McCaffrey is a self employed Architect writing specifications for other architects. He is a graduate of The Catholic University of America, and has a Bachelor of Architecture Degree. With over 42 years of experience in building documentation, he’s worked at Miller Waltz Diedrich, Milwaukee, WI and Ft Lauderdale, FL; CRS Sirrine, Houston, TX; Stone, Marraccini & Patterson, San Francisco, CA, and Esherick Homsey Dodge and Davis, San Francisco, CA. He has had the pleasure of working with two AIA Gold Medalists, Bill Caudill and Joe Esherick. McCaffrey is the immediate Past Secretary of the Construction multiple construction projects for large-scale commercial, industrial and nuclear contractors, from inception to completion.
