Code: 128PMDB Process Modeling and Data Formats for BIM
Lecturer: Ing. Jiøí Kaiser Ph.D. Weekly load: 1P+2C Completion: A, EX
Department: 11128 Credits: 4 Semester: W,S
Description:
Fundamental terms from fields of information management, business process management, and BIM. General business process modeling using Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) and Unified Modeling Language (UML). Advanced Business Process models - collaboration of processes and choreography diagrams,
Adaptation of business process modeling languages for modeling of BIM processes in BIM Execution Plan (BEP) - using BPMN for modeling of BIM overview map and detailed BIM uses map, process modeling for Information Delivery Manual (IDM). Other uses of process modeling methods in civil engineering.
Basics of data formats for BIM - IFC/STEP, Express modeling language.
Contents:
1. Explanation of keywords (data, information, knowledge, information system), modeling of system neighborhood and process hierarchy
2. Basics of process modeling using Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)
3. Advanced process models and models of collaboration of processes using Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)
4. Process Modeling for BIM Execution Plan (BEP) and Information Delivery Manual (IDM)
5. Process modeling applications in civil engineering
6. Principles of IFC data structure
Seminar contents:
Process modeling, data modeling
Recommended literature:
ARLOW, J.: UML 2 and the unified process: practical object-oriented analysis and design, 2005
AMBLER, S.: The elements of UML 2.0 style, 2005
Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN). Documents Associated with Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) Version 2.0, 2011
Building Information Modeling Execution Planning Guide. BIM Execution Planning, 2010
Information Delivery Manual Guide to Components and Development Methods, 2010
http://www.buildingsmart-tech.org/
Keywords:
Building information modeling (BIM), BIM Execution Plan (BEP), Information Delivery Manual (IDM), process modeling, Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), Unified Modeling Language (UML), BIM goals, BIM uses. BIM overview map, BIM use map, data formats, IFC, IFCXML, relational databases

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