Abstract
The Construction Operations Building information exchange (COBie) is a specification that evolved from the idea of Computer Aided Facility Management (CAFM). The specification describes processes and information requirements which streamline the handover of specific data from the design and construction phases to the facility’s operation and maintenance (FM). Until now, the handover comprises a bulk of paper or e-paper documents, but extracting FM relevant information from these documents is considered to be tedious work. Therefore, the key idea of COBie is to incrementally gather and systematically store relevant information in a digital form as soon as they emerge in the project. To realize an effective data exchange and to guarantee market neutrality, the COBie specification suggests open formats, such as Extensible Markup Language (XML), SpreadsheetML or the IFC STEP format. These formats are meant for system-to-system data exchange. However, the implementation status of COBie is still at early stages. In practice, the creation of COBie deliverables is seen as problematic, due to wrong understanding of end users as well as insufficient software implementation. This ultimately lowers the acceptance among practitioners. Nevertheless, the potential benefit for the employer can be significant, if further technical and practical improvements are achieved.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
AEC Digital Solutions. (2015). AEC digital solutions portfolio: COBie/Level 2 BIM. Retrieved 10 Apr 2018, from https://www.slideshare.net/AEC_Digital_Solutions/aec-digital-solutions-portfoliocobielevel-2-bim
Bogen, C., & East, E. W. (2016). COBieLite: A lightweight XML format for COBie data. Retrieved 10 Apr 2018, from https://www.nibs.org/?page=bsa_cobielite
buildingSMART. (2013). Construction operations building information exchange: MVD for IFC4. Retrieved 10 Apr 2018, from http://docs.buildingsmartalliance.org/MVD_COBIE/
buildingSMART United Kingdom and Ireland. (2016). Judging the performance of level 2 BIM. Retrieved 10 Apr 2018, from http://www.bre.co.uk/enews/bre/bsUKI/bsUKI_jun14.html
East, E. W. (2012). Construction-operations building information exchange (COBie), buildingSMART alliance, National Institute of building Sciences, Washington, DC. http://www.nibs.org/?page=bsa_cobie (cited 27 Sept 2017)
East, E. W. (2013a). Life cycle information exchange (LCie), buildingSMART alliance, National Institute of building Sciences, Washington, DC. http://www.nibs.org/?page=bsa_lcie (cited 27 Sept 2017)
East, E. W. (2013b). Water system information exchange (WSie), buildingSMART alliance, National Institute of building Sciences, Washington, DC. http://www.nibs.org/?page=bsa_wsie (cited 27 Sept 2017)
East, E. W. (2016a). Information exchange projects. Retrieved 27 Sept 2017, from https://www.nibs.org/?page=bsa_infoexchange
East, E. W. (2016b). Common building information model files and tools. Retrieved 27 Sept 2017, from https://www.nibs.org/?page=bsa_commonbimfiles
East, E. W. (2016c). COBie responsibility matrix. Retrieved 27 Sept 2017, from http://projects.buildingsmartalliance.org/files/?artifact_id=4093
East, E. W., Nisbet, N., & Liebich, T. (2013). Facility management handover model view. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 27(1), 61–67. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000196
Hannell, A. (2016). COBie is already an outdated method of data management, Retrieved 5 Dec 2017, from http://www.bimplus.co.uk/people/cobie-already-outdated-method-data-management/
Lea, G., Ganah, A., Goulding, J., & Ainsworth, N. (2015). Identification and analysis of UK and US BIM standards to aid collaboration. In: L. Mahdjoubi, C. Brebbia, & R. Laing (Eds.), BIM 2015 (pp. 505–516). Southampton: WIT Press
NIBS. (2015). National BIM Standard – United States version 3. Retrieved 10 Apr 2018, from https://www.nationalbimstandard.org/
WBDG. (2016). Construction-operations building information exchange (COBie). Retrieved 10 Apr 2018, from: https://www.wbdg.org/resources/cobie.php
Yalcinkaya, M., & Singh, V. (2016). Evaluating the usability aspects of construction operation building information exchange (COBie) standard. In Proceedings of the CIB World Building Congress, Tampere. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303811016_Evaluating_the_Usability_Aspects_of_Construction_Operation_Building_Information_Exchange_COBie_Standard
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2018 Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Schwabe, K., Dichtl, M., König, M., Koch, C. (2018). COBie: A Specification for the Construction Operations Building Information Exchange. In: Borrmann, A., König, M., Koch, C., Beetz, J. (eds) Building Information Modeling. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92862-3_9
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92862-3_9
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-92861-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-92862-3
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)