{"id":63935,"date":"2019-09-30T12:03:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T11:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=63935"},"modified":"2023-06-27T13:35:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T12:35:45","slug":"root-bv-construction-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/bim-news\/root-bv-construction-knowledge\/63935\/","title":{"rendered":"Root B.V. uses construction software to share knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Traditionally, decision-making in the construction industry has often much relied on experience and interpretation, which is error-prone for anyone and extremely difficult for young professionals. Root B.V. strives to find new ways\u00a0 to share that experience collaboratively<\/h2>\n

Root B.V.<\/a>\u00a0is an engineering company focusing on architectural engineering and consultancy, based in the Netherlands. Founded 5 years ago and growing fast, the company celebrates the idea of \u201cinnovating by doing\u201d.<\/p>\n

Paul Bos, CEO and co-owner of Root B.V., said: \u201cIt\u2019s what motivates us all. Every day is about innovating by doing. We want to do it better, make it more interesting and always value high quality. We look at every assignment as a puzzle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Further, the company aims to innovate together with the clients. \u201cWe were once told by a client that although they asked for a car without a steer, luckily we didn\u2019t give them that, we gave them a self-driving car because that\u2019s what they actually meant.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can translate experience into a ruleset and share it between colleagues.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Everyone at Root B.V. working with building information models must also check their own work. \u201cWe are all working with verified and trustworthy data,\u201d Paul Bos explains.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo everyone in our firm has to know what they have, for example, in their IFC models. Everyone has to check themselves that the model is correct before passing it on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Consequently, most Root B.V. employees are experienced Solibri<\/a> users, not only capable of creating their own rule sets but also skilled in finding ways to translate their experiences for their colleagues to share. For example, in terms of what the rule sets should contain.<\/p>\n

Bos commented: \u201cIt\u2019s about passing on experience that somebody has, for example, saying watch out if you design a balcony above a certain level because then the balcony requires different heights.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can translate that knowledge into a rule set and through that, everyone gets notified in this kind of a situation based on the experience of another colleague. It helps us share knowledge between colleagues and new people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bos doesn\u2019t see Solibri as something difficult for his colleagues to learn. \u201cIt looks like a high step to get familiar with the program but the barrier has been quite low for most people we\u2019ve hired. I think the real power of Solibri is the speed and the intuitiveness. The information is shown logically so that you can find it, which is one of the key factors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Innovating by doing on video:<\/h3>\n

How can you check data for an ever-changing need for information? Root B.V. describes its invention to create rulesets automatically.<\/p>\n