Course number: 07SE152
Recommended experience level:
Level 3: Specialisation
- Validate IFC models for quality, consistency, and completeness
- Understand and implement the information delivery chain from IDM and EIR (AIA) to MVD and BEP (BAP)
- Evaluate and interpret IFC data for efficient and reliable interoperability
Ensure the Quality and Integrity of IFC-Based BIM Data
Model-based collaboration is at the heart of Building Information Modeling (BIM). As BIM workflows involve exchanging data between multiple stakeholders and software platforms, ensuring the quality, consistency, and completeness of IFC models has become a critical success factor.
This seminar provides software professionals, BIM managers, and technical experts with a comprehensive understanding of IFC-based quality assurance. Participants learn how to validate BIM data independently of whether they produce, exchange, or consume IFC models.
The course covers the complete information delivery process—from Employer's Information Requirements (EIR/AIA) and BIM Execution Plans (BEP/BAP) to Model View Definitions (MVD), Information Delivery Manuals (IDM), Information Delivery Specifications (IDS), and BIM Collaboration Format (BCF). Practical examples demonstrate how these standards interact to enable reliable OpenBIM workflows.
Participants also learn how to interpret validation results, manage issues using Common Data Environments (CDEs), and establish robust quality assurance processes throughout the BIM lifecycle.
Top Topics
- Validate IFC models for quality, consistency, and completeness
- Understand and implement the information delivery chain from IDM and EIR (AIA) to MVD and BEP (BAP)
- Evaluate and interpret IFC data for efficient and reliable interoperability
- Apply BIM quality management standards, guidelines, and best practices
- Define, document, and exchange model validation rules
- Manage issues using BIM Collaboration Format (BCF)
- Hands-on exercises covering EIR, BEP, IDM, IDS, MVD, and BCF
The VDI seminar “BIM Data from IFC Models—Backup and Quality Control” covers these topics
Learn how to reliably check your BIM data for quality and completeness!
In-Person Seminars:
Day 1: 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. | Day 2: 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Online Seminars:
Day 1: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. | Day 2: 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
BIM Process Refresher
- BIM roles, stakeholders, and responsibilities
- National and international BIM standards
- BIM throughout the entire project lifecycle
- Quality assurance within BIM processes
- Project phases according to HOAI
- VDI Guideline Series 2552
Defining Information Requirements
- Collaboration between clients, BIM managers, and planners
- ISO 19650 Information Requirements
- ISO 29481 Information Delivery Manual (IDM)
- Defining Employer's Information Requirements (EIR/AIA)
- Developing BIM Execution Plans (BEP/BAP)
- Reusing information requirements
- Information Delivery Specification (IDS)
- German Federal BIM Portal
- Practical examples
BIM Modeling
- Creating and maintaining modeling guidelines
- Developing models according to EIR and BEP requirements
- Collaboration across multidisciplinary project teams
- Defining and implementing BIM use cases
Working with IFC
- ISO 16739 Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)
- IFC2x3 vs. IFC4 vs. IFC4x3
- Model View Definitions (Coordination View, Reference View, Alignment-based Reference View)
- Configuring model interfaces
- Developing custom MVDs
- Selecting and configuring appropriate software solutions
- Practical examples
Model Validation and Quality Assurance
- Designing effective validation workflows
- Implementing quality assurance processes
- Verifying project information requirements
- Checking compliance with BIM Execution Plans
- Evaluating validation methodologies
- Practical examples
Validation Rules
- Developing validation rules
- Boolean logic fundamentals
- Exchange formats (mvdXML, idsXML, idmXML)
- Assessing requirement feasibility
- Transparent versus black-box validation software
- Practical examples
Model Checking Tools
- Advantages and limitations of model checking solutions
- Validation checklists and rule sets
- Understanding and analyzing validation rules
- Model checking workflows
- Relationship between validation rules and BIM Execution Plans
Managing Validation Results
- Reading and interpreting validation reports
- Exchanging issues using BIM Collaboration Format (BCF)
- Issue management platforms
- Common Data Environments (CDE)
- Practical examples
Seminar Methods
We want to make the workshop interactive and give you the opportunity to work through examples on your own. Please bring your laptop with you. We’ll let you know in advance which programs you should install to participate actively.
Please send any specific topics or issues you have related to quality assurance to ruschke-piechotka@vdi.de at least one week before the seminar begins. We’ll forward your suggestions to the seminar leader.
Target Group
This seminar is intended for:
- BIM software developers
- BIM managers and BIM coordinators
- Software vendors
- Digital engineering specialists
- Architects and engineering consultants
- Construction companies
- Public and private project owners
- BIM consultants
- Manufacturers and suppliers working with IFC-based BIM workflows
Dein Experte für "BIM-Daten aus IFC-Modellen"
Štefan Jaud, M.Sc., CEO, Jaud IT GmbH, Moorenweis
Štefan Jaud, M.Sc., obtained his B.Sc. in civil engineering in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and his M.Sc. at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He is pursuing his PhD about "Georeferencing and BIM" at the Chair for Computational Modelling and Simulation, TUM. He published multiple papers describing his research activities and spoke at national and international events. Štefan Jaud obtained his work experience at Obermeyer and Siemens groups as a product developer. Additionally, he was a team member and validation lead with international projects IFC Bridge, IFC Road, IFC Tunnel, IFC Rail and IFC Infra Extensions Deployment, where he expanded IFC standard to support infrastructure assets. He was the managing director of The Hard Code GmbH, which he cofounded in 2022. He leads Jaud IT GmbH since its founding in 2024 and has co-initiated as well as continuously acts as the technical lead of the BIM Fit Check programme.
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