Contents
Certificate of original authorship i
Certificate of Dissertation Advisor’s consent iii
Acknowledgments v
Abstract vii
List of figures ix
List of tables xiii
1 INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Background 1
1.2 Aim and Objectives of the Study 1
1.3 Significance of the Study 2
1.4 Research Question 2
1.5 Research Scope 3
1.6 Thesis Outline 3
2 LITERATURE REVIEW 5
2.1 BIM GIS Integration 5
2.2 Literature Overview 5
2.3 Inference 7
2.4 Concept Formulation 8
3 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 9
4 DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS 11
4.1 Contextual Details 11
4.2 Creation of 2D Architectural Layout 14
4.3 Identification of Site Components 15
4.4 Network Mapping 16
5 MODELLING 21
5.1 Developing BIM Module 21
5.2 Classification 23
6 TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION FOR INTEGRATION 25
6.1 Georeferencing 25
6.1.1 Survey Points 25
6.1.2 Validation 28
6.2 Conversion of Revit Files to IFC Format 29
6.3 IFC to Postgres 31
6.4 IFC to 3DCityDB 32
7 TESTING AND VALIDATION USING PROTOTYPES 35
7.1 Identifying Supply Pipes 35
7.2 Identifying Intersections 35
7.3 Topological relation for geometry comparison 37
7.4 Distance between two segments 38
7.5 Identifying connectivity 39
8 CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT FOR APPLICATION 41
8.1 Ideology 41
9 CONCLUSION AND FUTURE SCOPE 45
9.1 Research Questions 45
9.2 Conclusion 47
9.3 Future work 47
References xlix
Appendix 1: BIM Module and Integration liii
Appendix 2: Transformation and Operation lvii
Plagiarism Report lix