Autodesk wins buildingSMART alliance’s Design COBie Challenge

Autodesk Revit wins the buildingSMART alliance’s Design COBie Challenge. The Design COBie Challenge is an opportunity for software vendors to demonstrate the conformance and accuracy with the vendor-neutral interoperability format (COBie) that supports the exchange of building asset information.

What is COBie?

COBie (Construction Operations Building Information Exchange) is a framework for organizing data developed and collected during the course of a building project for delivery to facilities owners and operators involved in lifecycle management. This information is essential to support the operations, maintenance, and the management of the facilities assets by the owner and/or property. The COBie approach is to enter the data as it is created during the design, construction, and commissioning phase(s). Using COBie saves time and money as collecting this information after the project is time and resource consuming. 

 

Challenge details:

• The 1^st test was for architectural design software at the early stages of the design process.
• The 2^nd test was with software that supports the delivery of a consolidated design model at the Construction Documents stage of design.
• The 3^rd test was with construction and commissioning software that imports data from Construction Documents stage COBie, updates that with construction data, and exports the Construction Handover Stage file.

 

The Results

The Autodesk Revit 2013 COBie Toolkit (plugin application) allowed the user to streamline the export and comply with the COBie xml table format (e.g. MS Excel) with almost zero errors. The user utilizing Autodesk Revit 2013 software is estimated to have to spend 9 minutes cleaning/fixing the COBie file for a facility of comparable size and complexity.

Company	Product	Result/Details
Autodesk	Autodesk Revit 2013	9 minutes to correct
Bentley Systems	AECOsim Building Designer (BETA)	3.6 hours to correct
GraphiSoft	ArchiCAD 17 Beta	8 hours to correct

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Learn More

Download the free Autodesk Revit COBie toolkit by clicking here. 

Click here to learn more about Autodesk BIM solutions for the owner and operator.