Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
the
Building
class, but this extension is in LoD 3. Semantic classes, such as Room,
are extended by a subclass
VisibleElement
and additional elements (
Railing
,
Beam
,
Stair
or
Annotation
). The classes
Window
,
Door
and
RoofSurface
are extended by
attributes (De Laat and Van Berlo
2011
). UtilityNetworkADE (latest version 0.9.0)
defines a topological network model facilitating analyses and simulations on utility
networks. Furthermore, it allows the representation of network components such as
3D topographic city objects (Becker et al.
2011
).
Building and Technology Passport: Building Information
Modelling
This paper presents a pilot study using data from the Building and Technology
Passport. Since 2004, the Facility Management Division of the University Campus
at Masaryk University has collected digital spatial data on the real-estate property
of the University. Recently, a Building Passport has been created for more than
160 buildings owned by the University. However, this number will continue to
grow in the context of new construction. The Building Passport also registers assets
in buildings used but not owned by the University. Altogether, this means over
250 buildings with over 20,000 rooms (Glos and Sou
ˇ
ek
2009
; Kroutil
2009
).
In 2007, shortly after the Building Passport was created, work on the Technology
Passport began, this relating to technologies in buildings and rooms including the
location of all electronic devices, air-conditioning systems, fire equipment, water
distribution systems, and heat distribution systems. The Building and Technology
Passports together form BIM, or Building Information Modelling. Using BIM, the
Facility Management Division began modelling a new university campus in Brno
Bohunice and has gradually been collecting data about other buildings and rooms at
different faculties. So far, the Technology Passport has been completed for 40 build-
ings all over the University. The University Campus, the Faculty of Economics and
Administration, the Faculty of Social Studies, and the Faculty of Education have
already been finished. In 2013, a test of technology passport data acquisition started
at the Faculty of Science (Facility Management Division of the University Campus
Bohunice
2013
; Kuˇera et al.
2013
).
Spatial data include DWGs (
DraWinG
) of all floors, side-sights or cuts of each
university building. DWG blends symbology and attributes together, so, for the GIS
solution and web presentation as well, the most important features like ground
plans, steps, windows, and load bearing walls are also saved in ESRI geodatabases.
Passportization documentation is executed according to methodologies for building
and technological passports, which are an integral part of the tender documentation
for construction. Methodologies establish and describe the necessary operations in
the process of collecting, managing and updating data passports (Facility Manage-
ment Division of the University Campus Bohunice
2012
).
