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
1st test was for architectural design software at the early stages
of the design process.
- The
2nd test was with software that supports the delivery of a
consolidated design model at the Construction Documents stage of design.
- The
3rd 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.
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.