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Consistency Verification Between Cost and Geometric Information Based on IFC: Application on Structural Elements

  • Jacopo Cassandro
  • Claudio Mirarchi
  • Alberto Pavan
  • Maria Grazia Donatiello
  • CARLO ZANCHETTA

Cost estimation for tendering is one of the leading causes of legal disputes in the architecture, engineering, construction, and facilities management (AEC/FM) industry. The lack of a standardised support procedure to verify the association of cost data with the objects model causes waste of time and inaccuracy in the cost estimation. This research work, starting from a previous study where the research group integrated a cost domain in the IFC data schema, investigated the possible applications of this IFC based cost domain integrated with an IFC geometrical information model. The current paper investigates a specific case study focused on a structural model to verify current and future applications. Furthermore, rules for BIM information requirements will be defined through the Information Delivery Specification (IDS) to ensure an easy way for humans and computers to understand it. This will allow to specify which data must be present in the geometric model to subsequently ensure validation and verification of uniqueness of the cost data associated with geometric data. The results show the possibility to define a structured cost items in IFC associated through relationships to other entities and then verify their association to geometric data to guarantee its consistency and uniqueness

  • Keywords:
  • IFC,
  • cost ontology,
  • BIM,
  • cost item,
  • Information Delivery Specification (IDS),
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Jacopo Cassandro

Politecnico di Milano, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-1487-8178

Claudio Mirarchi

Politecnico di Milano, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-9288-8662

Alberto Pavan

Politecnico di Milano, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-0884-4075

Maria Grazia Donatiello

University of Padua, Italy

CARLO ZANCHETTA

University of Padua, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-8185-4301

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Chapter Title

Consistency Verification Between Cost and Geometric Information Based on IFC: Application on Structural Elements

Authors

Jacopo Cassandro, Claudio Mirarchi, Alberto Pavan, Maria Grazia Donatiello, CARLO ZANCHETTA

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10.36253/979-12-215-0289-3.80

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2023

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CONVR 2023 - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality

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Managing the Digital Transformation of Construction Industry

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Pietro Capone, Vito Getuli, Farzad Pour Rahimian, Nashwan Dawood, Alessandro Bruttini, Tommaso Sorbi

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2023

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Firenze University Press

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