Mapping Federated AEC projects to Industry Standards using dynamic Views

Web-based construction projects are rapidly becoming commonplace. Domain-specific collaboration platforms, the so-called Common Data Environments (CDEs), facilitate complex interactions between the various stakeholders participating in a project. CDEs are developed and maintained by the large BIM companies allowing deep integration with BIM authoring tools. Notwithstanding the benefits such integration offers, usage of proprietary tools, data models and platforms holds the risk of a vendor lock-in and creates dependencies on platform APIs as the sole funnels trough which project data can be accessed - even when using open data formats. Recently, technologies for re-decentralising the Web are under increasing interest, as they allow decoupling data storage from applications. The Solid initiative bundles these technologies in a domain-independent way. In previous work we have already discussed data patterns for the AEC industry, using these technologies - the LBDserver. In this paper, we demonstrate how these very generic data organisation patterns can be aligned with organisational structures of some common industry standards: ISO 19650, ISO 21597 and the BCF API specifications. To achieve full alignment with all three standards will be out of scope for this paper. Rather the aim is to demonstrate a Linked Data-based, federated environment such as the LBDserver is compatible with existing (centralised) approaches while maintaining the benefits of organising digital projects in a federated way.