Interoperability – An Introduction to IFC and buildingSMART Standards, Integrating Infrastructure Modeling

Bernd Domer is professor of digital construction and project management at HEPIA Geneva. Rachele Bernardello is a research fellow at the University of Padova.

• 1. Introduction // 2. Digital representation of built assets: general concepts // 3. The IfcBuiltElement example // 4. Visual representation of the IFC structure // 5. Organization of IFC // 6. buildingSMART specifications for interoperability // 7. IFC for infrastructure // 8. Ifc for roads // 9. Ifc for bridges // Annexe 1: Complementary chapters // 10. Linking Representation and Geometric Modeling in IFC // 11. BIM – GIS integration // 12. Schema modelling of IFC // 13. Development of IFC // Annexe 2: General Matrix // Annexe 3: Partial hierarchical tree for IFC infrastructure objects // Bibliographie