TY - GEN
T1 - Towards an Ontological Approach for the Integration of Information on Operation and Maintenance in BIM for Road Infrastructure
AU - Ait-Lamallam, Sara
AU - Sebari, Imane
AU - Yaagoubi, Reda
AU - Doukari, Omar
PY - 2022/9/23
Y1 - 2022/9/23
N2 - Building information modeling (BIM) is a new process to manage the full lifecycle of a construction project. For road infrastructure, the operation and maintenance (O&M) phase has major importance as it secures its sustainability. However, this phase is not satisfactorily integrated into the BIM process. This limitation emerges from two predominant factors: First, the current industry foundation classes (IFC) standard does not yet support objects related to infrastructure. Second, the information applied to the O&M phase, represented in the IFC, does not allow complete management of this phase. This research paper aims to propose an ontological approach, called IFCInfra4OM, to integrate O&M information in BIM for road infrastructure. In addition, it features the importance and requirements of O&M in road infrastructure and proposes the ontological approach to integrate these requirements within the IFC schema. For this purpose, the methodological diagram is presented. Its steps outline how the analysis of existing international standards is necessary for better integration of BIM into the road infrastructure domain. The proposed methodology develops the criteria to be considered for such an objective. Finally, the scientific contribution of the research is presented in the light of the prevailing field literature. Furthermore, future works for building IFCInfra4OM are submitted.
AB - Building information modeling (BIM) is a new process to manage the full lifecycle of a construction project. For road infrastructure, the operation and maintenance (O&M) phase has major importance as it secures its sustainability. However, this phase is not satisfactorily integrated into the BIM process. This limitation emerges from two predominant factors: First, the current industry foundation classes (IFC) standard does not yet support objects related to infrastructure. Second, the information applied to the O&M phase, represented in the IFC, does not allow complete management of this phase. This research paper aims to propose an ontological approach, called IFCInfra4OM, to integrate O&M information in BIM for road infrastructure. In addition, it features the importance and requirements of O&M in road infrastructure and proposes the ontological approach to integrate these requirements within the IFC schema. For this purpose, the methodological diagram is presented. Its steps outline how the analysis of existing international standards is necessary for better integration of BIM into the road infrastructure domain. The proposed methodology develops the criteria to be considered for such an objective. Finally, the scientific contribution of the research is presented in the light of the prevailing field literature. Furthermore, future works for building IFCInfra4OM are submitted.
KW - Building information modeling
KW - Industry foundation classes
KW - International standards
KW - Ontological approach
KW - Operation and maintenance
KW - Road infrastructure
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85116403809
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-16-2377-6_65
DO - 10.1007/978-981-16-2377-6_65
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85116403809
SN - 9789811623769
T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
SP - 701
EP - 712
BT - Proceedings of 6th International Congress on Information and Communication Technology
A2 - Yang, Xin-She
A2 - Sherratt, Simon
A2 - Dey, Nilanjan
A2 - Joshi, Amit
PB - Springer
CY - Singapore, Singapore
T2 - 6th International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, ICICT 2021
Y2 - 25 February 2021 through 26 February 2021
ER -
