BIMpeco – Environmental product data in collaborative BIM environments

Building products can represent a risk potential for the environment and health due to their pollutant contents or pollutant releases. This qualitative product information is not represented in life cycle assessments and has not yet been systematically included in the BIM environment. Normative standards for product information management and product data templates for the building life cycle have been developed, but have so far only been applied in isolated cases in proprietary systems.

In the BIMpeco project, requirements and data structures for the digital information management of environmentally relevant product data are being developed that satisfy the following principles:

• Management and documentation in the Common Data Environment (CDE)
• Building on existing and new standards and methods
• Consideration of the entire life cycle of the building
• Sharing of information along the supply chain
• Continuous specification of information requirements
• Quality assurance of the information

The intended results of the project are:

• Attribute model and data templates for environmentally relevant product information on building products and building services components
• Workflows and standards for integrating this product information into the tendering, awarding and accounting process
• Guidelines for the Product Information System in the Common Data Environment
• Description of case studies using exemplary Product Data Sheets and scenarios

The BIMpeco project is the first project to create the basis for product information management of environmentally relevant properties of construction products and building services components in the Common Data Environment.