BIM implementation in federal highway construction

The master plan BIM Federal Highways of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Construction and Urban Development (BMDV) has five strategic objectives for the implementation of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the field of federal highways. One of these objectives is the nationwide harmonization and standardization of the BIM methodology. A major challenge is to digitally adapt all regulations in federal highway construction to make them compatible with the BIM data structure and BIM processes. It is important that information from all regulations is machine-readable, processable, and storable. It may be necessary to provide all regulations with a BIM glossary and modeling notation. However, there are no plans to supplement the existing "analog" regulations with current research and implementation techniques. The BMDV will gradually release new nationally uniform framework documents for project processing with BIM to support the BIM implementation process. There is currently no corresponding framework document for adapting regulations to BIM in federal highway engineering.

The aim of this research project is to develop and present a unified approach to adapting the existing "analog" regulations in federal highway construction to Building Information Modeling (BIM). The framework document "Adaptation of Regulations to BIM" will be created for this purpose. Selected regulations in the field of federal highways for roads, bridges, and tunnels (e.g., RE 2012, AKVS, RAA, RE-ING, RAB-ING) will be scientifically examined and processed based on valid norms and regulations for BIM. These regulations will be provided with a BIM glossary and modeling notation (software-neutral approach such as RuleML, BPMN). It is important that the regulations are machine-readable and digitally processable, enabling automated verification. Minimum requirements for digital processability include the ability to import rules from regulation texts into model checking tools to digitally verify design and cost structures. In addition to determining the level of detail, it is necessary to integrate the "analog" regulations into the systematics of the framework document "BIM Object Catalog." Uniform designations and standards for the most important or necessary elements of a regulation should be defined. The created framework document should also include a procedure in the form of an instruction that can later be applied to other relevant regulations.