{"id":49136,"date":"2018-11-15T11:36:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T11:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=49136"},"modified":"2022-10-19T15:15:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T14:15:57","slug":"bim-city-information-modelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/bim-news\/bim-city-information-modelling\/49136\/","title":{"rendered":"Next in BIM: City Information Modelling (CIM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>BIM has radically changed the way we think about building design in terms of collaboration and visualisation. Can City Information Modelling do the same for urban planning?<\/h2>\n<p>Technology is\u00a0leading\u00a0building design in all sorts of areas, from consumer products to smart homes. However, city planning is one area that has not moved substantially forward. The way we think about individual buildings has radically transformed with the advent of Building Information Modelling (BIM), but a holistic, data-driven approach to wider city planning still lags behind.<\/p>\n<p>Euan Mills, urban design and planning lead at UK smart city hub Future Cities Catapult, said: \u201cWe\u2019ve seen how, in the last 15 or 20 years, the impact of information communication technologies on the way that we live in cities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got over 40bn connected devices worldwide. We\u2019re collecting more data than we\u2019ve ever collected before and with all this data and all this processing power we now have incredibly smart computers. Meanwhile, with all this amazing new technology, the way that we plan cities is still firmly stuck in the 20th century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>City Information Modelling, or\u00a0CIM,\u00a0has the potential to change all of that.<\/p>\n<h3>What is City Information Modelling?<\/h3>\n<p>In 1989, Maxis published SimCity \u2013 an open-ended city-building video game that allowed the player to design and develop the ultimate city from the ground up. It was a great success, spawning a host of sequels and spin-offs, including the best-selling and more person-centred franchise The Sims. The SimCity games continued to hold their own fascination, however. Many gamers enjoyed mapping out development zones, planning infrastructure and turning a patch of undeveloped land into a thriving, high-tech metropolis.<\/p>\n<p>City Information Modelling\u00a0essentially takes the same concept and applies it to real life, with a hugely sophisticated platform allowing architects, planners and other professionals to collaborate on city-wide projects and designs.<\/p>\n<h3>The relationship between BIM and CIM<\/h3>\n<p>To a certain extent, the construction industry is still getting to grips with\u00a0BIM, so the relationship that Building Information Modelling has with the upscaled CIM is still very much evolving. Even if there has been a slow uptake in some quarters, however, most people in the industry recognise that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/bim-news\/trimble-unveils-new-tekla-2018-bim-solutions\/39790\/\">BIM<\/a> will play a much larger part in the future.<\/p>\n<p>A recent report published by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zionmarketresearch.com\/\">Zion Market Research<\/a>\u00a0predicted that the BIM market was set to nearly triple between 2016 and 2022, when it is expected to be worth $10.3bn. The UK is leading the world in BIM take-up, thanks largely to a mandate requiring all central government-funded projects to be delivered with collaborative 3D BIM, but other markets are slowly catching up.<\/p>\n<p>BIM uses 3D modelling, of course, but it also goes far beyond traditional CAD capabilities to incorporate data and information on every part of a building project\u2019s lifespan. The fact that different aspects can be linked collaboratively lends itself to potential expansions \u2013 where different individual buildings can be linked in a greater overall project. Expand this still further and you can have individual BIM files plugging into an even bigger, city-scale platform.<\/p>\n<p>CIM goes beyond the remit of most BIM models and files, bringing in links to infrastructure, public services and even modelling how people move around and interact with the city.<\/p>\n<h3>The rise of smart cities<\/h3>\n<p>Many of us are getting used to the idea of smart homes, with personal assistants helping to streamline our everyday lives while everything from security alarms to thermostats and smart toasters connect in an increasingly complex IoT-driven home environment. Connected devices are now being taken out of the home and incorporated into roads and public transport systems, commercial buildings, energy monitoring, and waste management platforms. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/bim-news\/smart-homes-gain-interest-concerns-remain\/24321\/\">Smart homes<\/a> are forming component parts of increasingly smart cities, which are able to gather their own data and use it to increase their efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t all plain sailing and the implementation of smart technology on such a wide scale does pose challenges, particularly where issues such as data and privacy are concerned.<\/p>\n<p>Smart cities can also bring big huge potential benefits, though. Amsterdam is one of the most data-driven cities in the world and the\u00a0Amsterdam Smart City\u00a0initiative has produced dozens of projects, including autonomous fleets of boats that reduce pollution, smart lamp posts that adjust to the light and weather, and thousands of sensors across the city that improve traffic flow and parking allocation.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK,\u00a0Manchester\u2019s CityVerve smart city Open Innovation\u00a0challenge, led by Cisco and Manchester Science Partnerships, invited SMEs to come up with innovative solutions to tackle challenges in healthcare, transport and energy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout collaboration, any effort to solve the challenges facing society today fails at the first hurdle. No one organisation can truly do it alone. The answer lies in co-innovation, and this approach is fundamental to the open innovation challenges,\u201d said Nick Chrissos, director of innovation at Cisco in Europe.<\/p>\n<h3>How can CIM help?<\/h3>\n<p>Collaboration is one of the defining elements of BIM and the same potential for collaboration and co-innovation certainly applies to City Information Modelling. CIM can use the data harvested by the IoT and smart cities but it can also join together different systems and stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Webb, head of projects at Future Cities Catapult, said: \u201cWe\u2019re already seeing how some companies allow citizens to view new buildings before they\u2019re built. And we think there are possibilities to enable people to chat with the planning application of that new building, to understand how much affordable housing it will deliver, how much green space it might deliver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve also been working with the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis to understand what combinations of data are most valuable for city planners, to citizens, to people running parks and open spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, CIM is continuing to draw on elements of SimCity gaming and combining them with BIM to produce something we haven\u2019t quite seen before but will undoubtedly see a lot of in future.<\/p>\n<p>Improbable Worlds is a gaming company that has built simulations of entire UK cities, incorporating everything from telecommunications networks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/building-control-news\/inclusive-transport-by-2030\/43865\/\">transport<\/a>, power grids, sewerage systems and housing demographics. These can all be accessed and interacted with in real-time, and this type of model will allow planners to test developments and changes before they implement them.<\/p>\n<p>CIM is still in its relative infancy but there\u2019s little doubt that it will have a huge part to play in designing and running the cities of the future.<\/p>\n<p>How can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/green-belt-land-increase-housing\/47730\/\">data<\/a> design transform the planning system in 2050? According to Euan Mills, in the future we will be able to \u201cactually start measuring health, wellbeing, and happiness\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em>Please note: this is a commercial profile<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Trimble MEP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tel: +44 (0)1908 608833<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/constructible.trimble.co.uk\">constructible.trimble.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIM has radically changed the way we think about building design in terms of collaboration and visualisation. 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