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openBIM® Processes Helped Minnucci Associati s.r.l. Deliver Whole-life Value for Naples Station

Project Overview About Naples Centrale Station To keep pace with growing demands, the owner Minnucci Associati s.r.l. The Naples Centrale Station is the main needed to eradicate existing paper-based railway station in the city of Naples, Italy. The decision-making for new building installations Location: station is the sixth largest for passenger flow and ongoing maintenance decision-making. RFI Naples, Italy in Italy, catering for around 150,000 people also wanted to enforce open and interoperable a day with around 400 trains in operation. standards to improve the flow of the newly Objectives: The owner-operator, Rete Ferroviaria Italiana created data. To develop an openBIM (RFI), is responsible for the management methodology to integrate with and safety of rail traffic on the entire national As BIM manager for the project, Minnucci existing facilities management network including the track, stations and Associati s.r.l. needed to develop a BIM model processes installations. covering the 5 main buildings, spanning over 400,000 square meters to provide a digital data Software used: With the need to develop new buildings and workflow to manage thousands of components Leica TruView, CloudCompare, better understand their existing assets, RFI including electrical, HVAC, hydraulics, and other Smart City 3D, ARCHICAD, required a solution that could capture and critical assets that need regular maintenance. BIMcloud, BIMx Pro, SOLIBRI model their existing buildings and an open Model Checker (SMC), Tekla and collaborative framework for integration Creating a Common Data Environment BIMsight, GeoWeb Fm, GeoWeb into their facilities management system to Minucci also needed to create a common data Smart Build CCDE, Lumion 7 help improve the whole-life value of their environment (CDE) to set up an exchange, assets. This openBIM solution would need storing and verification of the BIM deliverables. buildingSMART tools: to integrate with their existing facilities GRAPHISOFT’s BIMcloud was the chosen IFC 2x3 management platforms. With passenger solution. This solution would provide the BCF flow, experience and health and safety being platform to collaborate and communicate bSDD of central importance to the station, RFI with all project stakeholders and develop required all project participants to work in a an openBIM methodology to manage the standardised methodology. digital flow of data that was needed for asset performance. The CDE needed to be open and Napoli Centrale is the main railway Improving the Management of Data interoperable and inclusive of participants from station in the city of Naples and in The aim of this project was to improve the other organizations. It also had to meet the southern Italy and the sixth largest overall passenger experience, including technical specifications and documentation as station in Italy in terms of passenger safety and flow as well as better integrate set out by RFI. flow. The station has 150,000 daily services from commercial buildings. RFI passengers, 400 operational trains also wanted project teams to work within The CDE needed to house 12,500 components and an annual ridership of 50 million buildingSMART standards and toolkits to that were divided into 65 groups. These passengers. better manage the flow of information. components included the geometry, parametric values and a location code. The CDE helped Highlights: Part of the scope of the project included a to federate 44 different models to create their scan and survey of the station. This was Asset Information Models (AIM) which could be • 44 different designs that totaled needed because they didn’t have a digital connected to their maintenance system, SAP. 12,500 components representation of the existing assets within the station itself. The data captured would need All assets were then modelled and tagged, and • Point clouds were 380 to be modelled by a team of BIM specialists a mobile app was developed enabling mobility gigabytes in size to develop new digital representations of the of information and asset recognition through existing station. By capturing the existing barcode recognition. This level of innovation • 7 different stakeholder assets and developing a digital workflow, RFI relied on good data management through the organizations involved in the wanted a process to connect BIM deliverables CDE and interoperability between their digital project with their teams in an automated workflow. applications. Managing Big Data Design Transfer View Spanning the 5 main buildings, Minucci had As part of the contractual obligations, the IFC to map and model this large surface area models were delivered to the client either at “The most complex and important with multi-layers of complexity. A high-level revision stage or against final completion of the aspect that BIM offered us was the of detail was needed so an accurate solution milestones. ability to support the need for building was developed. Laser scanners were used to capture the existing assets with a point cloud The validation, contract compliance and final stock management throughout the of the area totalling 380 gigabytes. To make model acceptance were based on IFC files project. this process more manageable, the data was jointly authored. The IFC models were imported partitioned into smaller groups and assigned into the CDE-integrated IFC view for all project We are able to design and create a to a designer. Each designer connected the participants. virtual building model using the latest existing drawings and models with the new openBIM technologies, delivering point cloud data and the result was stored FM Handover View exceptional management and and managed in the CDE. IFC standards were used to import models maintenance capabilities during the into the existing SAP facilities management entire process. GRAPHISOFT’s ARCHICAD was the chosen platform. Properties were mapped to their BIM authoring tool with an open workflow IfcProperty and gathered into IfcPropertySet. All with IFC. The 44 models created were shared maintenance objects were identified, classified This was only possible thanks to the with the owner for approval. By mapping the and placed into the model using IFC standard. buildingSMART’s open digital data BIM authoring tool with IFC open standards, workflows.” Minucci was able to create automated BIM Collaboration Format workflows and instant asset recognition. The XML format open file BCFXML and the BCF Ernesto Minnucci open file were used to check the compound’s Technical Director, Minucci Associati s.r.l. buildings geometric interferences. All models were merged into a unique reference view in Solibri Model Checker software and the BIM coordinator generated the revision report.

For more information about buildingSMART International, buildingSMART Tools Deployed This project benefited from a variety of please visit: buildingSMART tools and solutions to enable better collaboration, cooperation and value www.buildingSMART.org from their BIM deliverables. IFC2x3 was deployed for Coordination View, Reference Minucci used a variety of tools to connect to an Or contact us: View, Design Transfer View and FM existing facilities management system Email: contact@buildingsmart.org Handover View. By committing to this way Tel: +44 923 277953 of working, and adopting buildingSMART buildingSMART Data Dictionary standards, this project was able to take The buildingSMART Data Dictionary (bSDD) advantage of an openBIM workflow was used as reference guide to define all to meet the overall project demands. undergone maintenance objects within Naples Centrale Station, classifying them either as Coordination View IFC type level or at lower level as IFC subtype. The IFC coordination view was able to merge This consistent language provides greater different models to better check geometric assurance to all stakeholders on the project. interferences and IFC sheet information inconsistencies. IFC files were exchanged The value of openBIM with other BIM checking tools (Solibri Model As a result of adhering to open standards, Checker) to validate the model. This was Minucci was able to demonstrate true value used for clash detection, deficiency detection, in developing, managing and exchanging BIM and enabling the matching of elements. deliverables as well as seamless integration with existing facilities management tools. IFC Reference View This openBIM approached helped to not only The IFC standard was used for delivering the capture and model the existing station but milestones for the client through the various enabled better decision-making by providing stages of the lifecycle of the project. This accurate digital information that would be used process helped RFI represent the ongoing for the ongoing operations and maintenance of progress of the virtual model against the the Naples Centrale Station. state of the project as a method for progress reporting. As a result, the client was kept up-to-date with the project milestones and timelines.

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