An OpenBIM Digital Twin Platform. Tools for Validation, 3D Reconstruction, and Project Life-cycle Data Management.
Bim & Scan provide an openBIM enterprise management cyber-physical system that connects real and virtual worlds. OpenOp facilitates tools for model validation and 3D reconstruction, and a common data environment (CDE), for the full life-cycle of built environment projects e.g. buildings, bridges, railroads, ports and waterways, tunnels, telecommunications sites, wind-farms, etc. The main objectives of OpenOp is to enable life-cycle data setup, delivery, capture, and validation on any type of project.
Quickly validate, update, and share model QA/QC data.
It’s a cyber-physical system for the built environment like no other to date.
APIs allow 3rd Party Developments and Integrations.
Costly errors and inaccuracies plague design offices and construction sites globally. Ten percent of construction budgets can be wasted due to problems that occur because of inaccuracies on site. Owners want quality assurance that designs are built on site within the contracted tolerances, and risks associated with finding and solving these problems are minimized or eliminated. Furthermore, contractors may find it difficult to perform QA/QC on everything, and designers need assistance with BIM modelling accuracy, especially when modelling from point cloud data. The typical solution to all of these problems is to overlay a point cloud on top of a 3D model and subjectively navigate and try to spot check for site-related or model-based issues.
Above you can see some of the key stats from Bim & Scan. We are proud of some of the milestones we have reached since launching more than a decade ago.
We can tell you all about the features and benefits of Bim & Scan and our suite of tools. However, we’ll let some of the industry’s leading experts give their thoughts.
These applications have saved me a lot of time, especially with complex projects like oil and gas, and power and utility sectors, due to their ability to handle detailed data efficiently. Their support for openBIM standards, seamless integration with BIM systems, accurate data generation, and user-friendly interfaces have significantly enhanced productivity and facilitated collaboration in an open, collaborative work environment.
As a contractor we are scanning our projects more often, laser scanning technology is easily available nowadays. Where in the past point clouds where for specialist, they become common for project teams. We’ve used BIM & Scan AutoCorr on a few projects to check point cloud versus BIM. With help of AutoCorr, the differences between both les where visible within seconds, instead of hours searching for the deviations in the construction versus the IFC design models. AutoCorr delivers us coloured point clouds with deviations that are coloured red, and we can combine the automatic open standard output les from AutoCorr into our IFC les in our common IFC viewers. Due to this simple concept users can stay in the software they are familiar with. This makes adoption of this new technology pretty easy for the whole project team instead of specialists.
The use of Bim and Scan technology helps creating an Identical Digital Twin. Model-data from different designers and from different stages in the lifecycle of a building, is validated against the IFC coordination models with the help of open standard E57 scandata. It helps designers and stakeholders, in a virtual world where the digital twin is a representation of the actual building with actual assets to be managed. Open standards IFC, E57, and BCF are key to this development and needed for collaboration with stakeholders. An automatic output of BIM & Scan AutoCorr is the open standard BCF, which makes it possible to collect issues from different tools and gather them to transfer to a specific designer. The use of BCF in this way is a must in collaboration with others.
BIM & Scan AutoCorr was created to address problems when mapping open standard point cloud data with IFC formatted BIM objects. The developers of this product have used their expertise in the most demanding industrial facility settings to provide an efficient tool based on solid research. While I am not an expert in this field, it does appear that the ability to modulate error rates while mapping objects and mapping to curved surfaces are significant innovations in this field.
Combining point clouds with Building Information Models (BIM) has great signicance to enable construction digitalisation. To date, many works and solutions have focused on Scan-to-BIM, but a growing and critical area of interest is Scan-vs- BIM, to support construction progress and quality control, generation of as-built BIM, as well as asset monitoring. BIM & Scan AutoCorr is, to my knowledge, a unique Scan-vs-BIM solution by the fact that (1) it harnesses cloud technology; and (2) does it using open standards only (E57 for point clouds, and IFC and BCF for BIM information). The use of BCF to record (and communicate) deviations and subsequently how a BIM model should be adjusted to reect as-built/as-is conditions is particularly interesting. BIM & Scan AutoCorr is a great platform upon which numerous applications could be conceived in a vendor-agnostic way, to promote industry-wide collaboration.
Leap3D uses AutoCorr to compare point clouds and IFC models. We use it to compare our point clouds with models that have been created in the past using old drawings. Our client likes to know what the differences are between the model once created and the current reality. We specifically like using this software because it does not only show the difference between the model and the pointcloud but it also shows the difference between the pointcloud and the model. If there are points that haven’t been modelled, it will ‘light up’. That is very useful. The software also enables a tolerance setting we can use nding the differences which makes it easy to use for different purposes (from very accurate to just a quick overview). We also like the software because the support of Bim&Scan is very helpful. When we have questions, their help is fast and accurate.
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