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

2. 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

3. 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.

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

5. Why is FR interested in bsDD?

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

7. (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

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

9. Ceiling System UK FR US CA NO 9

10. Classification - Omniclass
Table 23 : Products

11. Norway

12. UK Uniclass

13. bsDD Pilot Project
Ceiling Panel
Ceiling System 13

14. Ceiling Panel properties

15. 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

16. 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

17. bsDD Pilot Project November 29 -30, 2012 bsDD Meeting, UK Phase 2
Extend the pilot to include classification and more complex data
November , 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

18. 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

19. bsDD Pilot Project Jan 9, 2013

20. bsDD Pilot Project Jan 9, 2013

21. Thank You For additional information please contact:
Birgitta Foster Roger Grant
Assisting Director CSI/bsDD
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.