The Digitalisation of the

Building industry, a paradigm

shift of massive proportions
 Stefan Larsson
stefan@bimobject.com

Digital content
Evangelist
BIMobject

The I=Information in BIM

 The global Urbanisation

1 million people move to cities every day

By 2050 more than 75% of the population will
live in megacities and we need to build
3 Billion homes
The process is fragmented,
old fashioned with too many
stakeholders
40% of the solid waste and
CO2 emissions are caused
by the building industry
What can digital technology do?
 3D, Thermal, FEM, Cost, Clash
detection, Production sequencing,
4D-5D-6D, Light, Shadow, Sun,
Energy, Waste, Function,
Construct-ability, CO2 energy
water foot prints, Production
costs
 It allow us to know more
earlier in the process to
simulate, calculate and visualise
and try more variations
 KNOWLEDGE
Know-how
Understanding
insight
intuition
contextualized information

INFORMATION
contextualized,
categorized,
calculated and
condensed data

DATA
Facts and gures
which relays to
something specic,
but which are not
organized in any way
 500

January 2012

January 2016

January 2021
100
0
Amount of properties and information in objects
But, it puts a massive burden
on the BIM users..

Where to find data, certified

information and secure the
knowledge?
Product knowledge exchange?
 More information generates
knowledge and leads to better
decisions.
Solve the problem in the
BIM model and not on the
construction site.
 Community of Professional BIM users
Today 170 000 registered BIM
users world-wide

Neutral to all BIM/CAD

software

Engineers, Constructors,
Architects, Manufacturers,
owners and designers.

Communicate and share know-

how
 BIM is a information process
BM = Building Modelling = 3D CAD
Model of room spaces
Draft building element model

Building element model

LOD 100
Construction element model

LOD 200 As built model

As-Required

LOD 300 As-Designed

LOD 350 As-Planned

As-Built
LOD 400
As-Maintained
Solve the problems in your computer model not on site.
Its all in the details
 BOM based on
HTML
Possible to create any look, filter and sort the information
based on Manufactures, type, story etc Templates can be
Walls as assemblies, drive logistics
 BOM based on
HTML
Possible to create any look, filter and sort the information
based on Manufactures, type, story etc Templates can be
 An intelligent
digital version
of a real
Building
product
 All product
information
in the near future will
be carried by objects
 We need change!

new processes
systematics
pre-specified products
industrialisation
limit the options
Life-cycle approach LCA
environment impact, quality and energy
 Life
cycle
Footprint
 Why?
If we don't change?

We would need a 2nd planet

What Google is for Search

What Linkedin is for Jobs

What iTunes is for Iphone Apps

What Spotify is for Music

What Facebook is for Social media

What BIMobject is
for Building Products

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 Thank You
Merci

Lets save the planet together