Il processo edilizio supportato dal BIMM: l’approccio InnovANCE - BIMM enabled construction processes: the InnovANCE approach

This paper deals with the INNOVANCE BIMM – Building Information Modeling and Management - concept, that has been envisioned within the frame of the national research project INNOVANCE. The INNOVANCE team has at first defined a procedure to define standard BIM objects, useful to deliver proprietary and interoperable BIM libraries – linked to the INNOVANCE database - as a support of BIM enabled construction processes. The INNOVANCE BIM libraries have been conceived in order to embed all the information needed by the various building process actors, and to guarantee a proper information exchange between different actors as well as software platforms, thanks to an architecture relying on the most dependable international standards for interoperability. During a further phase of the research process, the requirement for operational standards has been highlighted: indeed, the first group of object libraries delivered by the different research units has made evident the need for common modeling procedures, in order to guarantee the consistency of the information within a building model, as well as of its final representation. Such standards, fundamental in order to properly manage a BIM based construction process, refer both to graphical standards, useful for the traditional graphical representation of a building model, as well as to modeling procedures and information content, this being the key point of a BIM based process. The aim of the INNOVANCE team is to provide a set of concepts and requirements addressing both the graphical and modeling issues, referring to national and international standards, interpreted according to the national frame of rules for the building process. The set of references and rules defined by INNOVANCE and here presented, is a first step, in the Italian environment, towards standards procedures useful to properly manage the construction processes using the IT tools.