Why make classification based

on international standards?
A status on CCS and CoClass,
and examples of how findings are taken up by other
industries (infrastructure, shipbuilding and airplanes)

ICIS DA, Cologne, June 2018

Gunnar Friborg, Molio, June 18th 2018

Agenda

• The importance of using standards

• Standards used and influenced by CCS and CoClass development

• The impact of using standards

Stating the importance of standards
• In essence, a standard is an agreed way of doing something – at best it’s a future oriented set of
rules and methods based on well tested practice and technology.

• Standards are the distilled wisdom of people with expertise in their subject matter, who should
know the needs of the organizations, the companies, and the users they represent.

• Standards are knowledge to be applied. They are powerful tools that can help drive innovation,
increase collaboration and productivity, and facilitate trade.

• The use of standards can make organizations and tools more successful and people’s everyday
work and lives easier, safer and healthier – providing better quality and using fewer resources.

• The construction sector is a loose organization of many parties – not one factory. We need
common standards to harvest the benefits of our BIM investments.

• To be able to make ICT (and BIM) work, and to do integrated BIM, we need common
language, common information structure, and interoperability.
Standards used for development of CCS and CoClass
CCS Classification and Identification has its origin in international standards:

ISO 12006-2:2015 Framework for classification

ISO 704:2009 Terminology work

ISO 22274:2013 Aspects for developing classification systems

EN/IEC/ISO 81346-1:2009 Structuring principles and reference designations

EN/IEC/ISO 81346-2:2009 Classification of objects and codes for classes

buildingSMART IFC properties and property sets and bSDD

Standards which are influenced by CCS and CoClass

ISO 12006-2:2015 Framework for classification (rev.)

ISO 704:2009 Terminology work

ISO 22274:2013 Aspects for developing classification systems

EN/IEC/ISO 81346-1:2009 Structuring principles and reference designations

EN/IEC/ISO 81346-2:2018 Classification of objects and codes for classes (rev.)

buildingSMART IFC properties and property sets and bSDD

ISO 81346-12:2018 Buildings and building services (new standard)

Does use of standards make an impact? … status:

CCS Classification and Identification development was from the beginning

focused on BIM and being object-oriented, and to be based on international
standards. This has secured:

• Cross sector application and user possibilities – construction, infrastructure,

offshore, manufacturing industry and other production sectors.

• Better ICT implementation – attractive to BIM SW-developers and –vendors for

global marketing (defined syntax for coding based on standards).

• Open CCS structure, database-tables and APIs – apps for concepts and
classification tables, for coding and code-readers, defined objects with properties.

• And it’s well coordinated with buildingSMART IfcObjects and RLOM.

• CCS is now implemented in 24 ICT/BIM-tools in DK.

CCS Navigate
CCS embraces:
- Classification
- Terms and definitions
- Identification
- Element types
- Properties
- Rules of Measurement
- Level of Information

CCS is now being

implemented in all Molio
Tools:
- Cost estimation tool
- Legislation information
- Specifications
 CCS Implementation Videos on YouTube
• Digital demands of the client with CCS

• CCS classification and identification

• Automatic CCS coding

• Software communicates via CCS

• Consistency in project documents

using CCS

• Quantities and measurement rules

• NCC and digitalisation in the building

industry

• The manufacturer and digitalisation

• Delivery and operation with the help https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bips+kanal+ccs+in+practice

of BIM and CCS
DK BIM development levels according to UK-model
It is said, that to be
able to do Level 3
BIM or integrated
BIM (iBIM) we need

- Common
structuring and
language, the Level 0 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
semantics (bSDD, (L0) (L1) (L2) (L3)
classification…)
Danish BIM development stage
- Use of widely BIM maturity
accepted levels
standards (ISO
BIM standards)

- Making data
National tools, standards Internationally
interoperable or de facto standards based standards
(IFC, Property
Data)
Has there been an interest in CCS and 81346-principles?

• Germany (DIN) proposed and has lead the development of the ISO 81346-12 application
standard but has as a country not decided to implement yet…

• Sweden has adopted 81346-principles and CCS Classification content and extended the
number of classes including also infrastructure (road and rail) into new CoClass Swedish
classification system.

• Norway, Finland, Latvia, Belgium and France are looking into the 81346-principles, and the CCS
and CoClass results for their strategic discussions of future cooperation on classification for BIM.

• Estonia has adopted and is implementing. Latvia has made a VR-video about the use.

• ISO/TC 59/SC 13 (“Home of the BIM standards”) follows and comments on the revisions and
development of the 81346-series by Liaison agreement.

• CEN/TC 442 – “The principles might be a candidate for a harmonized European generic
classification system for BIM” – supplementing a variety of national construction classification
systems – to be discussed at WG 4-meeting in Avignon late June.
Example: Australian comparison of Classification systems
Infrastructure on the move – to be integrated with construction
In Denmark BIM Infra.dk for
road and rail is established.
A 5 year development
program to borrow from and
build on digital construction
development.

ISO/IEC 81346-2 and ISO

81346-12 includes object
classes for infrastructure.

buildingSMART INFRA
An example from a CCS test performed on the Fehmarn tunnel project
ISO TC 59/SC 13 (BIM)

CEN/TC 442 (BIM)

Infrastructure, Offshore, Maritime, Aviation…
Using the ISO/IEC 81346 Reference Designation Systems (RDS) coding and new Classification principles

Sund & Bælt – infrastructure, bridges, tunnels in DK AIRBUS – A350 being analysed and tested for future systems engineering

SEMCO Maritime – transformer platform, North Sea OCEANCO Yachts / De Keizer Marine Eng. – Custom super yachts
The Airbus Example

Airbus: Geometrical aeroplane modelling is perfect for

• Geometrical coordination = Collision control,
Consistency control, Size and location control
• Maintenance, Visual location identification
• Education purposes
• Model simulations and studies

Airbus: General issues to be solved

• Structuring and coding across 5 production sites
• Use of different languages and terms

Airbus: There is a big need for adding an information structure

for a digital information model based on
• A common language, well defined classification and
identification principles (e.g. RDS)
• Structured digital information management and exchange
• Systems configuring and handling in order to develop and test
the different systems of an airplane:
• 15 Functional systems (Buildings and Infrastructure: 18)
• 81 Technical systems (Buildings and Infrastructure: 93)
• XXX Components (Buildings and Infrastructure: 498)