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adesso joins German government’s project BIM Deutschland (BIM GERMANY): Milestone in the digitalisation of the construction industry: Federal government’s BIM portal goes online

The German federal government has launched its new Building Information Modeling portal, which provides a range of tools for publishing the technical specifications of tendered construction projects. The portal was developed as part of a joint project stewarded by BIM Deutschland (BIM Germany) with the help of IT partner adesso. The project marks an important contribution by adesso to the digitalisation of the German construction industry and the introduction of the latest BIM methods.

BIM (Building Information Modeling) is a collaborative approach that allows all relevant information and data relating to a building to be recorded using digital models and exchanged transparently between clients, contractors and service providers. It helps to prevent mistakes at the planning stage, coordination issues and costly construction defects. BIM is based on standardised characteristics and descriptions for digital building models, which the German federal government’s new BIM portal is now providing. Over ten thousand attributes are already available, allowing all parties involved in construction projects to work together seamlessly and provide unique descriptions of individual buildings.

The BIM portal has a modular structure and is set to be expanded next year to include a configuration function for client information specifications (AIA – Auftraggeber-Informationsanforderungen) and testing tools for quality control. These modules will help public-sector clients to define all services, roles and responsibilities with precision and monitor compliance with specifications. The portal provides a standardised framework for the functional tendering and commissioning of construction projects. Attributes and client information specifications can easily be shared between project contributors and integrated into existing software applications such as planning and CAD solutions, thanks to open data formats and interfaces. This way, the attributes can also be used outside of public building specifications and be established as the industry standard throughout the German construction sector.

The BIM portal is part of the BIM Deutschland collaborative project, in which 18 partners led by planen-bauen 4.0 GmbH are establishing a BIM hub on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport and the Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building. The portal was designed by planen-bauen 4.0, adesso and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus König, Professor of Computing in Engineering at Ruhr-University Bochum. adesso handled the implementation side of the project, developing a high-performance system capable of processing large volumes of data and meeting the complex technical requirements of the construction industry. A number of new developments were required as only a handful of standard solutions are available in this area. This is where adesso’s expertise in building online portals and managing software development projects, and also its experiences in construction industry projects, came into play.

The BIM portal allows public-sector clients to make use of the benefits of BIM methodology at the tendering stage. Working with a central, digital building model with clearly defined characteristics and descriptions prevents incompatibilities and results in accelerated tenders, contracting and implementation at a lower cost. It is easier for clients to engage with architects, structural engineers, engineers, construction companies and service providers and implement largely automated quality assurance.

“Unfortunately, working with pen and paper is still standard practice in the German construction industry, and there are no uniform standards for client information specifications,” says Uwe Lutter, project manager at adesso. “As a result, many coordination processes are time-consuming and clumsy. With its new BIM portal, the German federal government is introducing uniform attributes and templates for construction models and buildings, allowing documents and procedures to be standardised in construction tenders. That makes the models and the client information specifications more comparable and verifiable. BIM is a huge step forward into the digital future for the German construction industry – not just because parties can work together more efficiently, but also because BIM lays the groundwork for the integration of new technologies such as AI and robotics.”

The new BIM portal was presented to the public and activated today by Federal Minister Dr. Volker Wissing, Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and Transport, and by Federal Minister Klara Geywitz, Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Construction.


adesso project manager Uwe Lutter: "For the German construction industry, BIM is a huge step into the digital future - not only because all parties involved work together more efficiently, but also because BIM is the basis for the integration of new technologies such as AI and robotics." (Copyright: adesso)

Partners in the consortium: adesso SE, AEC3 Deutschland GmbH, CORE Digital Engineering GmbH, embeteco GmbH & CO. KG, eTASK Immobilien Software GmbH, HOCHTIEF ViCon GmbH, Implenia AG, interactive instruments Gesellschaft für Software-Entwicklung mbH, Kapellmann und Partner Rechtsanwälte mbB, LoeschHundLiepold Kommunikation GmbH, OBERMEYER Planen + Beraten GmbH, planen-bauen 4.0 GmbH, RKW Architektur +, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Schüßler-Plan GmbH, STRABAG AG, Technische Universität München, VIA IMC GmbH, WTM Engineers GmbH


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