{"id":1185,"date":"2017-11-20T10:30:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T10:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecadroom.com\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2023-03-10T14:37:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T14:37:14","slug":"cobie-relate-bim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecadroom.com\/blog\/cobie-relate-bim\/","title":{"rendered":"What is COBie and how does it relate to BIM?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you are looking for BIM Manager Jobs<\/a>, then one of the terms you have probably come across in the job description is ‘managing and overseeing the collation and coordination of COBie data’ – but what is COBie and how does it relate to BIM?<\/p>\n

What is COBie?<\/strong><\/p>\n

COBie stands for the Construction Operations Building Information Exchange, and it is an international standard that relates to the exchange of building information. It is most commonly used in the product data handover from the construction team to the operations team. What the COBie specifications do well is to capture the industry knowledge and best practice, what they do not do is dictate precisely what information is required for the project handover – the responsibility for that still lies with the project owner.<\/p>\n

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History of COBie<\/strong><\/p>\n

Back in 2011, the UK Government published it BIM (Building Information Modelling) Working Party Strategy<\/a> which announced its intention that all projects should be completed with collaborative 3D BIM by 2016. The data and software requirements contained in this report are what we now call the COBie.<\/p>\n

This was in response to the fact that construction handover has always been a bit of a struggle as the information that is usually generated this far in a project is often only partly relevant for the operations team. This also means that a lot of new documentation then needs to be produced and collated specifically for them – and this tended to be in the form of documents and paper drawings in binders. The bulk of this documentation work, therefore, tended to be put off until the end of the project which is typically the time when budgets have been spent, and deadlines are looming. With the digitalisation of the world in general, this information has gradually moved from the archive room onto the file server.<\/p>\n

Basic Principles of COBie<\/strong><\/p>\n

COBie is a great stepping stone in the process of moving construction information from paper to online. This is because the main aim of COBie is to replace home-grown exchange templates and point solutions with a more digital building information management lifecycle. The basic principles of COBie therefore are:<\/p>\n