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Civil BIM and 12d Model

As many of you would be aware, Building Information Modelling (BIM) is fast becoming essential on all projects. The Queensland Government now has an Open BIM policy and will be continuously improving their BIM capabilities for all projects, both Civil and Structures, from now through to 2023.

To date, most of the BIM standards have only been for vertical buildings and not civil works, but 12d Solutions and the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) have been active participants in extending the Open BIM standards for Industry Foundation Classes (IFCs) to the Civil area.

As part of this process, Dr Lee Gregory from 12d Solutions attended the buildingSMART International (bSI) Standards Summit in London (in Oct/Nov) where the Open BIM IFC standards for IFC Alignment, IFC Roads, IFC Rail, IFC Tunnels and IFC Bridges were being formulated and discussed. 12d Solutions and TMR are also participating in the buildingSMART IFC Alignment Pilot Project, which is defining and testing in 12d Model, the new IFC elements for Alignments and Tins that are being added to the Open BIM Standards.

To help everyone come to grips with Civil BIM, 12d will be running BIM courses in early 2018 where users will get hands on experience in reading and writing Open BIM data using 12d Model. Enquire today!