Product Room bsDD Pilot Project Birgitta Foster Assisting Director - buildingSMART alliance Member - buildingSMART International

buildingSMART International ITM/IUG meeting bsDD Pilot Project buildingSMART International ITM/IUG meeting October 16-17, 2012 Tokyo, Japan Product Room resolution : “…formation of a small pilot project to add, review, and assess the current tools for entering product attributes into the bsDD. “ The following countries agreed to participate UK FR US (lead) CA NO SE

bsDD Pilot Project Product selected : Acoustic Ceilings (with a limited set of properties / attributes) Goal : identify additional procedures or tools that need to be developed to make the bsDD fully functional to Industry Deadline : November 30, 2012 for bsDD Group meeting in UK Weekly Project Conference call participates: Birgitta Foster (US) Ian Chapman (UK) David Watson (CA) Vincent Garreau /Frédéric Grand/Laurent Ortas (FR) Håvard Bell / Jøns Sjøgren (NO) Vaino Tarandi (SE) With such a simplified and limited scope but on a level that reasonable solutions can be found.

Why is UK interested in bsDD? Product Library Systems >1000 Products >4,000 + 20,000 manuf Clauses >10,000 Keywords >30,000 Documents >5,000 Ian Chapman/NBS 21012

Why is FR interested in bsDD?

Why is US interested in bsDD? IFC Property sets SPie Project COBie Standard bsDD-US

(scheduled weekly conference call for discussions and demonstrations) bsDD Pilot Project Project five (5) steps (scheduled weekly conference call for discussions and demonstrations) Introduction to bsDD: content, structure, template, and tools Demonstration of bsDD content upload tools with example of new term template Testing bsDD tools with each country uploading their product content Discussion of benefits/challenges with current bsDD tools for entering content Development a list of bsDD issues and next step recommendations

bsDD Pilot Project Current Tools: 1-Batch Import Manager 2-Library Propertylizer 3-IFD Browser

Ceiling System UK FR US CA NO 9

Classification - Omniclass Table 23 : Products

Norway

UK Uniclass

bsDD Pilot Project Ceiling Panel Ceiling System 13

Ceiling Panel properties

bsDD Pilot Project Initial Challenges “Component Systems” too complex Simplified to “ceiling panel” Classification Systems Differ Uniclass (UK) vs. US/CA (Omniclass) bsDD can handle them all Definitions varied Illustration/pictures/diagrams needed Conceptually same Context matters 15

bsDD Pilot Project Project five (5) steps (As of Nov 30th) Introduction to bsDD: content, structure, template, and tools Demonstration of bsDD content upload tools with example of new term template Testing bsDD tools with each country uploading their product content Discussion of benefits/ challenges with current bsDD tools for entering content Development a list of bsDD issues and next step recommendations

bsDD Pilot Project November 29 -30, 2012 bsDD Meeting, UK Phase 2 Extend the pilot to include classification and more complex data November 29 -30, 2012 bsDD Meeting, UK Suggested next steps : Extend the pilot to include classification and more complex data Create a forum for discussing content matters Create a content guide/policy

bsDD Pilot Project PHASE 2 (by Mid February 2013 ) Upload UK Uniclass Work Results table into bsDD Using IFD Browser, show product term ( ceiling panel) in bsDD with multi-national translations and classifications Demonstrate bsDD Propertylizer uploading product content Development a compelling list Industry benefits of and uses for bsDD

bsDD Pilot Project Jan 9, 2013

bsDD Pilot Project Jan 9, 2013

Thank You For additional information please contact: Birgitta Foster Roger Grant Assisting Director CSI/bsDD bfoster.c@nibs.org I appreciate the opportunity to present to you today. I would be happy to take any questions now, or you can contact either Deke or Birgitta at any time in the future. rgrant@nibs.org