Building Information - Representation and Management: Principles and Foundations for the Digital Era

The book presents a coherent theory of building information, focusing on its representation and management in the digital era. It addresses issues such as the information explosion and the structure of analogue building representations to propose a parsimonious approach to the deployment and utilization of symbolic digital technologies like BIM....

BIM/IFC files for 3D real property registration: an initial analysis

Land Administration is a quite inter-disciplinary field involving experts and knowledge regarding legal aspects, institutional support to establish relationships between involved parties and technical support to realize it. Today, land administrators and development organizations are challenged by an unprecedented demand to utilise space above...

To BIM or not to BIM: Een verkennend praktijkgericht onderzoek naar het gebruik van Bouwwerk Informatie Management (BIM) door MKB’ers ten behoeve van duurzame bouwlogistiek

De overheid kan volgens Tieleman meer vaart zetten achter de brede invoering van BIM. Door als opdrachtgever bij de aanbesteding van bouwwerken BIM als algemene richtlijn aan aannemers voor te schrijven. Engeland en Scandinavische landen doen dat al. De digitalisering van de bouwlogistiek kan worden gezien als een systeemverandering. Het gaat in...

Urban mining and buildings: A review of possibilities and limitations

In recent years there has been growing interest in urban mining in buildings from various environmental and economic perspectives. Materials hidden in buildings are attractive alternatives to raw ones and building activities are responsible for a large share of urban waste in many societies. The paper presents an analysis of possibilities for...