Towards BIM-Enhanced Renovation Management Tools with Support to Stakeholder Interaction

Abstract

This paper presents two renovation management tools that are currently being developed in BIM4EEB project: BIMPlanner—a planning and management tool for housing renovation projects —and BIM4Occupants—a coordination tool between contractors and occupants. An information-sharing layer, based on ontologies and linked data technologies, is an essential technical enabler of these tools. The layer allows data sharing across the different components of the toolkit. The tools aim to enhance information sharing between renovation stakeholders and to enrich BIM data with links to other relevant data in renovation projects.

Keywords

• renovation
• ontology
• building information modelling (BIM)
• linked data
• construction management
• location breakdown structure