Demonstrating efficiency through data connectivity between asset management systems and IM

The CoDEC (Connected Data for Effective Collaboration) project has developed standardised tools – an Asset Data Dictionary and associated Ontology – to support data integration between Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Asset Management Systems (AMS). CoDEC has also developed an OpenAPI (Application Protocol Interface) to enable automatic data connection between the two systems. Having developed the standardised process, the potential benefits offered for connecting and linking data have been shown in three pilot projects to demonstrate (1) how tunnel monitoring data can enrich BIM models of tunnels (2) how data from bridge sensors can be linked and visualised and (3) how highway data from a BIM model can be linked to GIS-based AMS for the operational phase. This paper describes the project outcomes.