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BIM and its Envisioned Use in Engineering Infrastructure Graduation Thesis Author Jan-Peter Ter Maaten Date September 1, 2015 Version 1.0 Status Final ‘If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there’ Quote derived from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland Figure 1 | Corporate Vision E2CS (E2CS Partners LLC., 2007) © Copyright 2015 by J. Ter Maaten, TU Delft and Grontmij Nederland B.V. All rights reserved. No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilised in any way or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the prior permission from the proprietors. Research Title BIM’s Horizon Research Sub Title BIM and its Envisioned Use in Engineering Infrastructure Document Type Graduation Thesis Date of Completion September 1, 2015 Date of Presentation September 16, 2015 Author Jan-Peter Ter Maaten Hoofdweg 115 6744 WJ Ederveen 06-57240749 [email protected] [email protected] Student number 4098951 University Delft University of Technology Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Master Track Construction Management and Engineering Graduation Committee Prof.dr.ir. M.J.C.M. Hertogh CEG, TU Delft Dr.ir. G.A. van Nederveen CEG, TU Delft Dr. S.G. Lukosch TBM, TU Delft Ing. M.B.J. de Kroon Grontmij, Nederland Grontmij Nederland B.V. De Holle Bilt 22 3732 HM, De Bilt Delft University of Technology Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences Stevinweg 1 2628, CN, Delft J. Ter Maaten iii Writing a report often ends with the first textual part of it, and so it does in this case as well. Finishing the master Construction Management and Engineering at the Technical University of Delft, this master thesis report is the cap stone. In order to graduate every master student needs to write his thesis report after analysing and researching his subject at his internship organisation. The subject of my graduation thesis is BIM on a very strategic level. During my internship at Grontmij in De Bilt, I researched BIM and conducted many interviews. This information was used to define a corporate vision on BIM. This vision is the goal towards which Grontmij should head in order to get the most out of BIM. In this preface I’d like to thank everybody who helped me during my graduation internship. My gratitude goes out to Maurice for being my main supervisor, for helping me formulating the research set-up, for introducing me to BIMing Grontmij, for answering many questions, and for helping me whenever necessary. Furthermore, I’m thankful to my graduation committee. Sander, as my primary supervisor and mentor, thanks very much for your advice, knowledge and expertise, and for answering many questions, both on BIM and on graduation processes. Also thanks to Marcel and Stephan for your time, critiques, and constructive input. I conducted ten interviews during my research project. These were very helpful and certainly necessary to develop a sound and consistent corporate vision on BIM. Therefore I want to thank everybody I interviewed – Arjen, Dik, Renzo, Bart and Frans outside Grontmij and Martijn, Martijn, Patrick, John and Hans within the organisation – and everybody who had input in another way. Finally I’d like to thank Sandra for helping me scheduling all meetings in Delft; family, friends, and colleagues for talking about and thinking along my graduation subject; and Lianne for your support, improvements, ideas, and – not the least important – love. Jan-Peter Ter Maaten Ederveen, September 2015 J. Ter Maaten v Preface ........................................................................................................................................ v Summary ..................................................................................................................................... xi Samenvatting – Translation into Dutch ....................................................................................... xiii Glossary ...................................................................................................................................... xv 1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Problem Analysis ..................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Problem Statement ................................................................................................................. 2 1.3 Research Objective .................................................................................................................. 2 1.4 Research Approach .................................................................................................................. 2 1.5 Research Questions ................................................................................................................. 3 1.6 Report Structure ...................................................................................................................... 4 2 Research Methodology ......................................................................................................... 5 2.1 Research Design ...................................................................................................................... 5 2.2 Vision – Definition, Purpose, Criteria, Processes, and Application ......................................... 6 2.2.1 Definitions and Purpose .................................................................................................................... 6 2.2.2 Criteria for Assessing a Vision ........................................................................................................... 8 2.2.3 Vision Creation Processes ................................................................................................................. 8 2.2.4 Applying Vision Development Theories to Building Information Modelling ..................................... 9 2.3 Interviews ................................................................................................................................ 9 2.4 Scope and Limitations ........................................................................................................... 10 3 Building Information Modelling ........................................................................................... 11 3.1 Defining BIM – Perception and Misperception ..................................................................... 11 3.1.1 BIM is not Precisely Delimited – Several Definitions ....................................................................... 11 3.1.2 BIM is not Strictly Limited either ..................................................................................................... 12 3.1.3 A Working Definition of BIM ........................................................................................................... 13 3.2 BIM’s Roots and Development .............................................................................................. 14 3.2.1 The Explosive Development of Computer Aided Design ................................................................. 14 3.2.2 How BIM could have become Reality much Earlier ........................................................................ 15 3.2.3 BIM in its Rapids – Promoting Revit and Onwards .......................................................................... 16 3.2.4 BIM in Infrastructure was Underexposed ....................................................................................... 17 3.2.5 So Why BIM? ................................................................................................................................... 18 3.3 General Notions – What is anyone talking about? ................................................................ 20 3.3.1 Object-oriented Modelling .............................................................................................................. 20 3.3.2 Interoperability – Standards, Libraries, and Languages .................................................................. 20 3.3.3 Level of Development ..................................................................................................................... 21 3.3.4 Maturity Levels ................................................................................................................................ 22 3.3.5 BIG BIM versus little bim ................................................................................................................. 22 3.4 BIM Essentials – The Most Essential Data Sources to Connect ............................................. 23 J. Ter Maaten vii 3.4.1 Essential 1 | Technical Details ......................................................................................................... 24 3.4.2 Essential 2 | Requirements ............................................................................................................. 24 3.4.3 Essential 3 | Geospatial Information ............................................................................................... 25 3.4.4 Essential 4 | Time ............................................................................................................................ 26 3.4.5 Essential 5 | Finances ...................................................................................................................... 27 3.4.6 Essential