BIM, Open Standards, and Pre-PlansGolden Gate Safety Network Building Service Performance Project@ NYC BIM Interest Group 18-Feb-2009

Questions from Greg Jakubowski, P.E., CSP, FSFPE, Principal and Chief Engineer, Fire Planning Associates

Q: must have pre-incident information about buildings, how can we achieve that through BIM?

Q: Who will use this information and what do they need to know?

Q: Who has that information? Capturing through design and construction, annotated pictures and diagrams, must be a common format.

How Can the Open Floor Plan Display Project Help?

Q: must have pre-incident information about buildings, how can we achieve that through BIM?

A: By limiting building information exchanges to only what is needed by fire services and useful to police. By easing terminology differences ~ developing a process and definitions at a level the basic concepts belong to everyone.

Q: Who will use this information and what do they need to know?

A: In this case, Fire Departments, Owners, and Inspectors. Where possible, use existing ISO, IBC, IFC, NFPA standards to facilitate efficient documentation and strong communication chains.

Q: Who has that information? Capturing through design and construction, annotated pictures and diagrams, must be a common format.

A: Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBIE) can already perform many of these tasks. A deliverable of the Open Floor Plan Display Project is a set of recommendations, guidelines and mapping to relevant code citations, standards, and best practices using XML and COBIE.

What is COBIE? not for working, only for the exchange Bill East USACE on the phone

Talking to the BuildingWhere are you located?What kind of building are you?Who are the occupants?Where are the exits, elevators, stairs ?Where is the fire?How has the fire progressed?What else is in this building?

Locating the Building using BIG web standardsGeoconcepts Ontology v1.2 & v1.2_swrl at Geospatial Meaning: Geospatial Semantic Web Research. GeoWeb Trends

Limiting Building Information

What do fire service organizations want to know?

Meet Local Code! Additionally and consistently mentioned:

Storage or Use of Flammable or Combustible MaterialsStructures susceptible to early collapseHazardous openingsHeavy ItemsPotential Traps such as swimming poolsLobbies on multiple floorsCounterflow in stairway lower levels

Open Floor Plan Display Problem SpaceSTATIC - Prepared ahead of time, each building and jurisdiction may be differentOSHA's Interactive Floorplan DemonstrationDYNAMIC - Interoperable, SystematicAny vendor or public safety organization can use CurrentFutureSVGRecognizable Symbol

Functional Display Requirements

Refer to http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FloorplanMarkupLanguage2006 International Fire Code, Section 509 The fire command center shall comply with NFPA 72 and contain the following features:

Schematic building plans indicating the typical floor plan and detailing the building core, means of egress, fire protection systems, fire-fighting equipment and fire department access. some people are passionate about access flooring Mark Kalin SCIP at Specifiers Property Sets Kickoff

Anyone can, Sign up, Log In, and Work On

Format Preparation GuidelinesThe proposed floor plan data exchange format is meant to be general purpose irrespective of the size, shape, or age of the building. Therefore it is important to recognize the starting point for deriving this format may vary greatly from one building to the next. Several examples, from old to new, are as follows:Old Building, No Floor PlansOld Building, Paper PlansRecent Building, Un-conformed CAD

Recent Building, Good CAD PracticesCurrent and Future Buildings, Advanced CAD Practices

Designing to a Fully Functional CityFire Department of New York Selects IBM for Intelligent Fire Safety SystemMonday January 12, 2009, 10:20 am EST

A single, unified view of a property;

Improved resource deployment and utilization for inspections;

Expanded management, Analysis and preparedness planning;

A risk-based inspection system for field inspections.NIST BFRL Scenario has some common goals

StandardizingGISSymbologyCreating Templates

Combining NIST BFRL and OGC Building Emergency Response ScenarioFollowing is a use case scenario of a building fire incident and covers alert generation and propagation to dispatch followed by the first responder use of building data. In addition, a table is presented that collects previous work with public safety representative in defining useful building data.

Open path we think will work: SVG, JavaScript, AJAX, EDXL-DE, CAP

The scenario begins in a large commercial building

at 321 Prince Street

in a section of the third floor Note: Each conceptFalls into the place Where it belongs

that is undergoing renovation. Contractors left out some vapor-producing chemicals that have ignited after-hours, producing a small explosion and starting a fire.

The explosion disables the smoke alarm in the room

but this generates a trouble condition at the fire panel.

The fire panel generates a Common Alerting Protocol CAP alert

that is passed to the BISACS Base Server (BBS)Note: Elements thatAre already knownAre fixed and stay.

The alert is then passed to the subscribing central station alarm (CSA) company

that monitors the building

Upon receipt at the CSA, a representative attempts to contact the building personnel to verify the alert (smoke alarm trouble in room 310)

While the CSA representative follows procedures to verify the alert, another alert arrives

reporting a smoke alarm from the hallway outside 310

STOPPED @ ALERTS GROUPED TOGETHER IN A MESSAGE:

The equivalent of Fire DepartmentDigital Keybox is outside the scope of the Open Floor Plan Display Project. Fitting and adapting NIST Diagram to Fit OGC / NBIMS hierarchy is currentlyIncomplete.Remainder of the scenarioIs parallel work by NIST Workshop participants and Subject Matter Experts Advising on this projectOpen Floor Plans are Before Security and Access

Nevertheless, an Open Standard Context will help whole systems work together better sooner or later. Today, Open2D only. CurrentFutureAn Easy Rapid Prototyping Technique with Point Cloud Data by Pralay Pal in the Rapid Prototyping Journal

Useful SoonerLinking BIM to GIS

Sooner: Building A Limited Dictionary

Sooner: Lightweight Stand Alone Floor Plans

A Beneficial Case Study: Worst Case Scenario Agreement on Floor 0GINA MARIE>Around Auckland (and Kapa Haka Performance)

A Beneficial Program: Architect / Owner / AHJCurrentFutureImagine a volunteer program,Were here to help you with your building documentation David Coggeshallon the phoneShould work with a fullyFunctional AHJ suchAs Arlington County

Someone has to pay forAll of this

Discussions at WDG

Turn over to David Coggeshall SFC MapLab Common Operating Picture ConceptOpen Floor Plan Display Demonstration