1. COBIE: Providing Benefits of BIM
to Owners, A/Es and Contractors
Igor Starkov
President
Tokmo Solutions, Inc.
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2. 1 Business Drivers for Using COBIE
2 How COBIE Information is Organized
3 Results & Guides
4 COBIE and LEAN
5 COBIE Challenge
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3. US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering Research and Development Center (c) 2009
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4. Construction-Operations Building
Information Exchange (COBIE)
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5. Why Owners Need COBIE?
• Plan, design, build data loss
• Recreation transcription errors
• Delivered and stored as paper
• Delivered after occupancy
(sometimes years later)
• Preemptive job plans missing
• Additional transcriptions costs
($40K NAVFAC’s OMSI file)
• Impossible to maintain
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6. Why Contractors Need COBIE?
• Materials/products submittals
and purchasing difficult to
coordinate with trade partners
• High cost of providing as-built
information, “job crawl” ($25K for
a medium size project)
• Tracking installed products and
equipment
• Data quality degrades over time
• COBIE is required by owners on a
growing number of new projects
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7. Why A/Es Need COBIE?
• Ability to establish QC for
created models reduces risk
ExternalSystemName
ComponentName
ExternalNameID
ComponentID
• Owners prefer vendors who help
RegisterID
SpaceID
them cut costs
1 2,100A 15,Hardware items 100A
2 3,100B 15,Hardware items 100F
3 2,100A 15,Hardware items 100G
• COBIE is required on a growing 4 4,101 15,Hardware items 101A
5 5,102 15,Hardware items 102A
number of new projects 6 6,103 15,Hardware items 103A
7 7,104 15,Hardware items 104A
8 8,105 15,Hardware items 105A
9 2,100A 6,Overhead Coiling Doors Assembly 100C
10 2,100A 6,Overhead Coiling Doors Assembly 100D
11 3,100B 6,Overhead Coiling Doors Assembly 100E
12 2,100A 6,Overhead Coiling Doors Assembly 100B
17 10,RF 54,HVAC System Components and Equipment HP-1
18 2,100A 54,HVAC System Components and Equipment RH-1
19 2,100A 54,HVAC System Components and Equipment RH-2
20 2,100A 54,HVAC System Components and Equipment RH-3
21 2,100A 54,HVAC System Components and Equipment RH-4
22 2,100A 54,HVAC System Components and Equipment RH-5
23 2,100A 54,HVAC System Components and Equipment RH-6
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8. How Information Is Organized
logical organization
(how does information link?)
process organization
(who does what when?)
open standard definition
(Industry Foundation Classes)
many formats/same data
o ifc
o ifcXML
o Excel XML
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9. Sample Views
Spaces Worksheet
Spa ceUsableHeigh tUnits
ExternalSystemName
SpaceUsableHeight
SpaceReferenceID
SpaceDescription
ExternalNameID
SpaceFunction
SpaceNumber
SpaceName
SpaceID
FloorID
2 1,First Floor 13-15 21 17 Maintenance Spaces SpaceIDPick 100A Locomotive Shop LinearUnit
3 1,First Floor 13-15 21 17 Maintenance Spaces SpaceIDPick 100B Reces sed Maintenance Area LinearUnit
4 1,First Floor 13-75 00 00 Storage Spaces SpaceIDPick 101 Tools/Janitor LinearUnit
5 1,First Floor 13-81 21 24 Telecommunications Room SpaceIDPick 102 Communication room LinearUnit
6 1,First Floor 13-81 21 21 Electrical Room SpaceIDPick 103 Elec trical Room LinearUnit
Installation Worksheet
InstallationMnufacturer
InstallationSerialNumber
InstallationModel
InstallationName
DocumentIDList
InstallationID
ComponentID
TransmittalID
SpaceIDList
RegisterID
1 15,Hardware items 1,100A TransmittalIDPick 1 100A Securall Doors HD36x84 000-01-1
2 15,Hardware items 2,100F TransmittalIDPick 1 100F Securall Doors HD36x84 000-01-2
3 15,Hardware items 3,100G TransmittalIDPick 1 100G Securall Doors HD36x84 000-01-3
4 15,Hardware items 4,101A TransmittalIDPick 1 101A Securall Doors HD36x84 000-01-4
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10. Published Results & Guides
Whole Building Design Guide:
www.wbdg.org/resources/cobie.php
Or Google for COBIE BIM
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11. LEAN and COBIE
• LEAN - Minimize waste of all resources (materials,
time, effort, money, …)
• Reduce variability / improve predictability through
implementation of:
– 3D/4D/nD/BIM
– Optimized, Just-in-Time detailed scheduling (Last Planner™)
– Networks of reliable commitments (improve reliability through
better tracking of products/equipment)
– Sound task assignments (include products/materials from
COBIE as resources for activities)
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12. COBIE Challenge
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13. Igor Starkov
Phone: 571-277-6617
Email: istarkov@tokmo.com
Website: www.tokmo.com
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