Many of the tools had to be developed from scratch and were specific to the unique design criteria of the project. Shortly after the Hangzhou design effort came to a close, I released my first open source plugin called Slingshot which allowed Grasshopper to connect directly to relational databases. When I joined CASE, one of my pet projects was to expand on this idea and develop a new CASE Exchange application which was tied to our interoperability service for project planning and execution.
The problem of interoperability cuts deep into interdependent issues in the marketplace of tools and our execution processes. Yet for all the tools available which help to break down the walled gardens of building applications, interoperability still remains a wicked problem in the building industry. The problem of interoperability cuts deep into interdependent issues of the marketplace of tools and our execution processes.
Stakeholders in the building industry produce output almost entirely through proprietary products, some of which seem to dominate the marketplace. Access to the data and the availability of the API is provided at the discretion of the vendor and major decisions happen behind closed doors.
Amidst our proprietary tools, we have seen the introduction of standard specifications. Yet all too often support for these formats is positioned as a limited compatibility feature within a product rather than an integral data format at the foundation of our tools. This has led us to…. As we continue to find solutions to satisfy our immediate production needs, we find ourselves operating in an paradigm driven by middleware.
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Email required Address never made public. Name required. Follow Following. Sign me up. Already have a WordPress. For decades, developers have thought of what they do in architectural terms: Design-build. Interoperability is forcing us to think more like city planners now, sketching out the roads, pipelines, and other connective tissue first, followed by the buildings themselves. Like all paradigm shifts, this creates both challenges and opportunities.
Privacy Policy An Engenius Website. Hit enter to search or ESC to close. Close Search. How is Interoperability Changing Software Development? No Comments. Many people find it helpful to think of APIs as a waiter at a restaurant. The customer user has a menu of options and the kitchen has the food, but what they need is a system for sending a request and receiving a response.
Or, you may want to think of an API as your debit card. When you drive up to the ATM, you have a need. Your bank has the data and the dollars. But you still require a secure way to access your account and take action. Why reinvent the wheel when APIs have made interoperability so much easier? How Integration has Changed the Way Developers Think Developers used to build software as a self-contained unit, which meant you began your requirements and design phase by discussing what you wanted the software to do.
The Benefits of Building for Interoperability From the Beginning Building with interoperability in mind comes with numerous advantages: Simplifies automation. More efficient software development process, leading to time and resource savings that result in a nearly cost-neutral API that your clients can use going forward. The resulting integration is more effective and feels more organic compared to an integration done after the software is developed.
A model is developed to improve the process of embedding acoustic information in BIM and sharing knowledge in an integrated delivery process. Download to IP: This paper is to demonstrate how an acoustician can use BIM models with acoustical analysis information. The goal is to achieve a feedback loop between architectural design and acoustical analysis. This collaboration maximizes work productivity and coordinates work schedules between architects and acousticians.
A case study of a performing arts hall design process is used to compare acoustical analysis results from different software and to develop a link between an acoustical database and a BIM model.
Revit Architecture is selected as the BIM software to build the auditorium model and to manage central information database. Ecotect is used to analyze acoustical data in the auditorium at an early phase design process.
It provides an acoustical analysis calculation highly interoperable with Revit. Data from Ecotect is compared with data from EASE to understand advantages and drawbacks from different acoustical analysis tools. BIM software enables the creation of three-dimensional design models that can integrate all the information pertaining to the project in a single data repository. The centralization of all the information helps project teams to perform a variety of complementary tasks including building performance analysis, visualization, construction document management, and improved accuracy of documentation.
Sharing design models and information promotes cooperation between architects and acousticians. The cooperation helps project teams to make quick and on-site decisions, and resolves design complications at the beginning of the design process. Early multi-disciplinary collaborations promote more-informed decisions throughout the project lifecycle. The most cost-effective time to make changes is during the programming phase of architecture design process.
This phase of a project is the best time for interested parties to influence the outcome of a project. Figure adopted from ref. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Vol. The architecture design process has four phases: programming, schematic design, design development, and construction document.
Integrated Project Delivery IPD is one of the project delivery strategies suggesting an innovative new contractual relationship with all the disciplines and emphasizing early collaboration on projects. BIM central information is a convenient tool, which makes this strategy possible. Knowledge-based design decisions through early collaboration enables a project to be more economic and competitive with less cost and more influence. They can understand that, for the best performance, all the building systems must be interdependent.
Interoperability can be categorized according to the level of information while transmitting models between different design and analytical tools. Acoustical consultants use field-specific analysis tools. Among various analysis tools, EASE software was used for an acoustical analysis for the case study on this paper. Although it provides sophisticated acoustical analysis for acoustical consultants, EASE is not interoperable with Revit products.
Primitive design modeling methods in EASE requires acousticians to rebuild another project model in a separate file for their acoustical analysis.
Modeling tools in EASE consume more time compared with Revit design tools to build the same project model.
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