As a company, we can tell you about the benefits of OpenOp and the various tools we provide here at Bim & Scan, however, here is what the inventor Dr. Frederic Bosche (Inventor of Scan-vs-BIM) said himself.
“Combining point clouds with Building Information Models (BIM) has great significance 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 reflect 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.”
Bosch is one of the most respected individuals when it comes to this type of technology and is a Senior Lecturer in Infrastructure Programme Management – University of Edinburgh | School of Engineering | Institute for Infrastructure and Environment Leader of the CyberBuild Lab, Associate Editor of Automation in Construction (Elsevier SCI IF=4.03), President of the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC)
Increased Revenue
Millions were made on the customisation of OpenOp for a particular client.
Increased Profitability
Customising OpenOp, e.g. OpenOp ESDT, is much more profitable at this time then selling single user or multiple user company subscriptions.
Decreased Risk
Using IDM for OpenOp core software builds totally reduced risk regarding end results such as assured data quality. When using AutoCorr in particular, rick is totally eliminated in those use cases because AutoCorr has 100% accountability and QC processes embedded into the program itself, e.g. BCF automatic reporting of deviation for each and every possible IFC object in any given model. It is impossible for AutoCorr to not account for everything in a coronation MVF file it consumes.
Increased Efficiency
Once users are aware on how to conform to the systems MVDs and their own digital workflows, then efficiency drastically increases.
Standing Out from the Competition
building a full openBIM ecosystem system including web and mobile apps the correct way using IDM > MVD = IFC is quite unique and stands out from the completion. This process should be the norm, but unfortunately it is not, and openBIM become more an afterthought versus the sole focus when deigning and implementing BIM systems.
Positive Environmental or Social Impact
Our solutions reduce site visits, thus reducing carbon emissions, and other negative environmental impacts that are caused in the typical validation and construction of today’s built environment progress projects. The social impact is tremendous in the way that our systems bring people together, and how new jobs and relationships once OpenOp is being used. For example, in the telecommunications industry, with just the OpenOp Product Library alone, huge teams in different regions (Mexico, India, Europe) of the world have been hired to create library objects according to specific MVD specifications and opeBIM templates BIM&Scan created for them to using in their authoring tools to conform to said MVD specs. Also, using the OpenOp Field Client mobile app, the site installing and other site activities have become extremely streamlined and the quality of data collected can now be achieved; the data is synced with OpenOp web app in real time, and standards such as BCF API is used extensively to communicate from the site to office personnel in a very efficient manner. OpenOp AutoCorr creates new validation roles, etc. OpenOp AutoSID allows personal to create 100% correct site installation documents from openBIM data directly from the database, where in past years, a long drawn out process of many people yield incomplete and incorrect install docs on most occasions. And that is to only name a few of the social impacts, on a global scale.
Improved Organizational Culture
having data that people can rely on and trust, has drastically improved organizational culture.
Improved Relationships Between Stakeholders
OpenOp improves relationships in many ways via each of its modules that are for different use cases and different groups of stakeholders, whilst also bring them all together throughout projects as 13 of 17 Sustainability they each contribute to the overall digital twins over the full project life cycle.
Improved Employee Attitude, Skills, and Maturity
OpenOp has really opened peoples eyes to the power of openBIM and what one can achieve when IDM > MVD for IFC applications are implemented properly.
Reduced Waste
OpenOp affords a tremendous amount of both physical and digital waste reduction. For example, the wast on site is eliminated, such as too much cables being purchased due to incorrect or no data about what to purchase for specific systems to be installed, or OpenOp AutoCorr ability to generate automatic deviation results and automatically provide then to the user via BCF topics, or OpenOp AutoSID automatically creating installation drawings and sending them to the OpenOp Field Client mobile device, when prior many weeks and man hours are wasted copying and pasting and guessing, etc, or OpenOp AutoGen ability to automatically create IFC Architectural and structural models from point clouds, when the only alternative is to subjectively guess and trace point clouds when implementing Scan-to-BIM, the list goes on and on.
Shortened Production Processes
Due to OpenOp’ product library, Automatic reconstruction tools and validations tools, the production of new design, or validating installations, or updating As-builts BIMs, or construction monitoring, etc. the production processes for these activities are dramatically decreased, whilst QA/QC has sharply increased as a result.
Usability, Utility, and Value of Outputs
The output files and results of OpenOps’ many tools and feature are invaluable, easy to use and readily accessible due to openBIM standards.
The Satisfaction of Users and Clients
For code to 8 years we have been very pleased wit the feedback from our solutions users, and we have many returning clients over the years, and I can honestly say openBIM standards has been the key catalysts in this true statement.
Return on Investment
OpenOp has yielded several million over past recent years, and a hand full of patents, awards, and other recognition we are very please to have under our belt.
Innovation Opportunities
The innovation opportunities are endless with openBIM standards due to their consistent implementation and delivery, and most importantly their extensible flexibility when utilised correctly.
Conclusion:
After it’s recent award at the Building SMART awards, Bim & Scan are pushing even further ahead with the development of even greater technology to serve the construction industry and other sectors using BIM standards.
Feel free to contact us with any questions you may have about our leading tool OpenOp.
