Building Service Performance (BSP) Project Home Page (1DRI)
'' Building Service Performance" is an Ontolog project to formalize how we describe the Purpose(s) of a Facility and the associated services expected from the building systems. We hope to include the beginning of a compliance framework as well. That is, how to understand and capture if the services being provided are in accordance with required performance metrics. (1SCD)
Current Work on Open Floor Plan Display (21JP)
Child Page Building Information Service Ontology (2BZL)
Modeling Golden Gate Safety Network and Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley Campus have begun collaborating on a course work project in mobile pervasive computing. The goal is to track Fire Fighters in a burning building, and improve the fire fighters own situation awareness, using ad hoc methods that can be applied on an incident specific basis. Responder locations will be tracked using known sensor locations and Open Floor Plans as reference. Demonstration Portal http://maplab.org/demo (Contact David Coggeshall). (211D)
Naming Conventions Participation in the development of OmniClass Table 13 Spaces by Function, 14 Spaces by Form, and 49 Properties which are all relevant to Open Floor Plan classification and exchange. Looking the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) model structure, namespaces, and NIEM's use of external standards such as the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) and CityGML (Contact DeborahMacPherson). (211E)
Data Integration Writing juried articles for The Journal of Fire Protection Engineering and National Institute of Standards and Technology Internal Report Interagency Report (NISTIR). Concentrating on message content, formats, and distribution; graphical user interface; spatial representation using Open Floor Plans; information security and IT infrastructure (Contact MichelleRaymond). (211F)
Secure Open Network Specifications Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) v. 1.2 USA Integrated Public Alert and Warning System Profile public review draft published August 2009 approval as a Committee Draft of the Emergency Management Technical Committee (EM TC) of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) pending. Ongoing work in Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Distribution Element (EDXL-DE) Hospital Availability (EDXL-HAVE) and a ValueListURN structure to move Open Floor Plan data across public safety networks (Contact RexBrooks) (211G)
City-Facing Departments and Sustainability General Plans, Specific Plans, energy assessment models and dependency graphing for Huntington Beach California Environmental Board. Emphasis is on gbXML and related analytical tools, establishing guidelines for cities to work with innovative urban design consulting firms and technology such as Onuma Planning System, and the development of e-permitting strategies to use Open Floor Plans with city departments (Contact BobSmith). (211H)
Past Calls and Events (1JQD)
- Project Coordination Sub-team Meeting Monday, April 13 at 1pm Pacific / 4pm Eastern Time for ~ 1 1/2 hours (1XV9)
- Purpose: Project Coordination (1XVA)
- ConferenceCall_2009_1_12 Next Steps in Preparing Phase 0 Proposals to NIST and buildingSMART Alliance (1XVB)
- ConferenceCall_2009_04_04 (1WQO)
- Purpose: Preparation for OntologySummit2009 presentation/discussion (1W3W)
- Short name: Ontology across Building, Emergency, and Energy Standards (1W3X)
- Long name: Ontology and tools for integration of building, emergency management, and energy management standards for cross-domain information exchange and representation. (1W3Y)
Mission (1SC6)
- "Building Service Performance" is an Ontolog project to formalize how we describe services performed in the built environment. (1SC7)
Current Projects (1PC5)
- FloorplanDataExchange - Working Group addressing floorplans for building information data exchange (1PC6)
Charter (1SC8)
- see: /BSPCharter (1SC2)
- ARCHIVED discussion points: /ArchivedCharterWork (1K13)
The Team (1DS0)
- BobSmith (1DSK)
- DeborahMacPherson (1DSL)
- MichelleRaymond (1DSM)
- RexBrooks (1DSN)
- SegunAlayande (1DSO)
- TobyConsidine (1DSP)
- PeterYim (observer) (1JYD)
- DickBates Ryan Companies (1HAJ)
- Dr. Walter Black (1HL0)
- Finith Jernigan (1HL1)
- Anto Budiardjo Clasma Events (Interested, but conflicting meeting) (1HAK)
- ...(put list of team members here)... (1DS1)
Motivations for Project Involvement - initial views from the co-conveners (1I9B)
- I am concerned that there is a fundamental disconnect between the building systems that manage building performance between what the system integrator can do and what the owner asks for. Building service performance is not handled well during building design because there is currently no accepted way for owners and designers to discuss the services desired and the performance expected for each service in simple general terms. Construction processes deliver diverse technical systems each discussed using concrete physical attributes whose effects are understood through a deep domain knowledge not often common to either owner or designer, or even to different contractors. This leads to specifying materials and processes rather than results, is ineffective in defining success after commissioning into long term operations and maintenance. (1K7C)
- New demands that buildings interact dynamically with entities other than the owner and operator will soon require that provisioning of services be managed over the lifecycle of the building rather than merely for procedural completeness at building turnover. These external entities include power provision and emergency management. (1K7D)
- I hope by formalizing new semantics to enable discussion of building services and their quality, we will create a common basis for discussing service between all actors over the life of the building. The semantics will also provide the groundwork for buildings to interact with actors external to themselves. We will be successful when the leasing agent uses our semantics to distinguish his property from others on the market. (1K7E)
- Note that I am not interested in all in “all services provided by the built world." I have no interest in developing yet another list of kinds of buildings. I have no interest in discussing how the community draws pride from a landmark. I want to focus directly on the services provided by the interactive processes of a building, and how we discuss their performance. (1IHR)
- Tall Tree Labs seeks to enable local building service users to streamline regulatory permit processes without significant impacts on a community's long term sustainability. (1IYC)
- Over the last 30 years, complex and complicated regulatory data modeling processes have been independently designed without concerns for interoperability nor local comprehension. Silos of scientific, engineering, cultural knowledge was then accepted. Today, however, Service Oriented Architecture and Federal-State Enterprise Architectures allows much higher levels of administrative and regulatory collaboration with more explict conversations over goals, objectives, performance metrics, diagnostic remedies for high level "problems". Consilience is essential for resilient institutions involved in life cycle designs of reslient building services. (1IYD)
- BSP thus provides a point of view for developing a framework for understanding how to practically and effectively connect existing (but highly fragmented) building service performance metrics working up from local building decisions (Environmental Impact Reports, Coastal Commission, City Land Use Regulations, Water and Energy requirements, LEED, Build It Green, etc.) to be aligned with (and interoperable with) international initiatives such as BIMStorm, IFC, NBIMS, FIATECH. (1IYE)
- This conversation needs to be simple but profound. (1IYF)
- The entire ecology of Built Environments is undergoing radical changes. (1WRD)
- Buildings have never been truly isolated places built in isolation, functioning in isolation, and maintained in isolation. Even an off-the-power-grid remotely-located building requires materials for its construction, has patterns of usage, and requires upkeep. And understanding the performance of such a building may be quite informative in understanding the performance of buildings, building-systems, and services provided to and for buildings in general. (1WRE)
- Buildings as “living entities” (1WRF)
- Building Services and measurement of performance (1WRG)
- Ontology as bridge (1WRM)
- Performance of services (1WRQ)
- Starbourne Communications Design views Building Service Performance as an integral part of several intersecting domains of interest to the goal of integrating Enterprise Intelligence with Enterprise Communications in a Service Oriented Enterprise Architecture. Specifically, our particular interest in the domains of Emergency Management and Health Informatics is substantially enhanced by adding the domain of Building Service Performance for a more complete context or situational awareness. (1K70)
- From our viewpoint Building Service Performance will help us answer: (1K79)
- Should an EMT team use the Lobby Elevator or the Service Elevator when responding to a call in a 12-story Office Complex requiring that a gurney be taken to the patient? How will the EMTs get the information to make this decision in a timely way? (1K73)
- If your City or Town has a Designated Alternative Care Site in the event of a Mass Casualty Incident, how should the care center be set up to allow best access to plumbing, restrooms, etc? (1K74)
- How accessible and up-to-date are the floorplans for your building in the event that firefighters need to conduct rescue operations? (1K75)
- Can your building communicate information to interior and exterior recipients about the various discrete rooms and environments, e.g. hallways, stairwells, roof in an emergency? (1K76)
- These are only a few of the considerations that need to be taken into account in developing structural communication analysis that integrate Enterprise IT into end-to-end communications for handling Emergency Management systems on which we focus. From man-made to natural disasters, the need to access accurate information about Building Service Performance is just as indispensable as the other domains of Information mentioned. (1K77)
- At Cannon Design - bootstrapping towards a version of cloud computing, because necessity is the mother of invention (1XVC)
- Accuracy&Aesthetics position is there should be simple, pre-established "answer pathways" for certain building information in the interest of the general public. Most local jurisdictions, environmental assessment organizations, and other potential building data users only need simple explanations, to repeated questions, without going into all of the complexities of: background data, sensor readings, ontologies, networks, performance requirements and metrics developed for complex reasons. Only certain types of building data is necessary and sufficient to benefit the general public. (1XVD)
- The AEC industry at large does not know what to require of the Contractor, or request of the Owner, to flip the construction documents into a new mode when buildings turn over. Nobody really knows how to exchange interoperable building data over the lifecycle of a building/community or data structure/network yet. (1XVE)
Most Critical Task(s) and Action Items At Hand: (1DRL)
- Phases 0 and 1, FloorplanDataExchange Project (1QSO)
- Considerations for Smart Grid, NBIMS, and California Sustainability Guidelines (1QSP)
What's New: (1DRN)
- 4th Ontology Summit: Ontologies as Standards (1SC3)
- Ontology Across Building, Emergency and Energy Standards (1XVF)
Key Date(s) to Note: (1DRP)
- ...(put content here)... (1DRQ)
Deliverables & Deadlines (1DRU)
- ...(put content here)... (1DRV)
Project Work-in-Progress (1DRW)
BIMstorm is like rapid prototyping, having the templates will allow quick assessment of an area and the code requirements. Images provided by Kimon Onuma at Onuma Planning System are available images (1SCF)
Discussion Archives & Shared-File Workspace (1DS2)
- Discussion Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/bsp-forum/ (1DS3)
- to subscribe to the [bsp-forum] mailing list, send a blank email to "bsp-forum-join[at]ontolog.cim3.net" (1DS4)
- to unsubscribe from the [bsp-forum] mailing list, send a blank email to "bsp-forum-leave[at]ontolog.cim3.net" (1DS5)
- alternatively, subscribe/unsubscribe/config can be done at - http://ontolog.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/bsp-forum/ (1DS6)
- Shared-File Workspace: (1DS7)
- work (for which IPR belongs to this community) - http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/BSP/ (1DS8)
- resource (for which we are allowed to publicly post, but for which IPR does not belong to this community) (1DSI)
- project-specific - http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/project/BSP/ (1DS9)
- general reference - http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/reference/BuildingServicePerformance/ (1DSJ)
Resources (Now in Alphabetical Order: needs Landscape View) (1DSA)
Below from NBIMS publications (1EGV)
- BLIS: Building Lifecycle Interoperable Software BLIS (1SC9)
- CABA Technology Roadmap for Intelligent Buildings — Continental Automated Buildings Association (1SCA)
- CIFE: Stanford University-Center for Facility Engineering CIFE (1SCB)
- Constructing Excellence in the Built Environment (previously M4I: Movement for Innovation, a Task Force to promote change in the UK's building industry) link (1SCG)
- CURT: The Construction Users Roundtable—an owners based group CURT (1SCH)
- FIATECH: A non-profit consortium working with technologies to support FIAPP (Fully Integrated and Automated Project Processes) FIATECH (1SCI)
- Georgia Tech: includes case studies, a list of publications and research papers, and some review of current BIM tools TECH (1SCJ)
- GSA: National 3D-4D-BIM Program 4D BIM (1SCK)
- IAI: International Alliance for Interoperability IAI now building SMART international (1SCL)
- IP: American Institute of Architects-Integrated Project Delivery AIA IP (1SCM)
- NIBS: National Institute of Building Sciences [http//www.nibs.org/NIBS] (1SCN)
- OCCS: OmniClass Construction Classification Systems—a new open standard classification system for the AEC industry OCCS (1SCP)
- OGC: Open Geospatial Consortium OGC (1SCQ)
- OSCRE: Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate OSCRE (1SCR)
- PRO IT: Finnish Consortium of Modelers PRO IT (1SCS)
- SHiP Group: Strategic High-Performance integrated Planning Group—membership group of companies involved in BIM SHiP (1SCT)
- SMARTcodes - a project of the International Code Council (ICC) SMARTcodes (1SCU)
- National Information Exchange Model (1XVG)
Related Conferences (1SCV)
- Connectivity Week (1XVH)
- buildingSMART alliance National Conference (1XVI)
- OASIS eGov Washington Workshop (1XVJ)
Conference Call, Meeting & Workshop (1DSD)
- FloorplanDataExchange Working Session on Monday 05-Jan-2009 11a PST / 2p EST (1SCW)
- FloorplanDataExchange ConferenceCall_2008_12_30 (1RD2)
- Connecting Building Information with EDXL on Friday 28-Nov-2008 (1QA6)
- Project Conference Call on Monday 30 June 2008 (1JYB)
- Agenda mindmap images at {http://picasaweb.google.com/Finith/BuildingServicePerformance} (1JQB)
- Project Conference Call on Monday 23 June 2008 (1JQA)
- 2008_06_16 - Monday: BuildingServicePerformance Project Pre-Kickoff Planning Meeting - BuildingServicePerformance/ConferenceCall_2008_06_16 T (1J1R)
- 2008_05_30 - Friday: BuildingServicePerformance Project Pre-kickoff Conference Call - BuildingServicePerformance/ConferenceCall_2008_05_30 T (1J1S)
- 2008_05_09 - Friday: BuildingServicePerformance Project Concept Conference Call - BuildingServicePerformance/ConferenceCall_2008_05_09 T (1DSF)