With Alberta Infrastructure’s new BIM policy now in effect, now is the time for companies that intend to bid on Alberta Infrastructure projects to ensure that they can meet the new requirements. (Not sure what the requirements are? View them here).
One of the major areas of change—and the one that’s been causing the biggest headache—is the question of how to collect and output asset data in COBie format and provide a resource who is accountable for asset information collection. How much additional work is involved in meeting this deliverable?
First a quick primer on COBie.
Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) is a non-proprietary data format focused on delivering asset data from building information models (BIM). In its simplest form it is a spreadsheet that contains digital information, generated during the Design and Construction phases of the project, in as a complete and useful a form as possible.
It is also the only agreed upon standard for…