The list of finalists for the buildingSmart openBIM Awards 2024 has been announced
The annual awards showcase outstanding achievements in leveraging openBIM methodologies.
OpenBIM is a vendor-neutral process that supports digital transformation through open standards, quality benchmarks and long-term interoperability to enhance collaboration.
buildingSmart International Summit – Marrakesh 2024
Finalists will be invited to present their projects to an international jury for consideration as part of the final round of the program.
The finalist presentations will take place on 3 October in Morocco, during the buildingSMART International Summit – Marrakesh 2024.
The winners will be announced during an Awards Dinner that evening.
The finalists
The complete list of finalists is as follows:
Construction for Buildings:
- Hip Hing Engineering Company: Kai Tak Sports Park: Constructing a multipurpose sports complex with open and interoperable processes, Hong Kong.
- Kier Construction: Optimising super prison delivery – Kier’s collaboration with the MoJ using open standards, United Kingdom.
Construction for Infrastructure:
- Guangdong Airport Authority: openBIM practice and intelligent construction in Phase III expansion construction of Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, China.
- PORR Construct: PORR’s practical openBIM approach for TransCarpathian Motorway, Romania.
- China Communication Construction Company: Successful information management innovations based on openBIM for Bogotá Metro Line 1, Colombia.
Design for Buildings:
- TPF Consultores: Empowering interoperability and collaboration in a project of four hospitals, Angola.
- Hip Hing Engineering Company: Kai Tak Sports Park: Delivering a state-of-the-art design of a multipurpose sports complex with open and interoperable processes, Hong Kong.
- Kontrast AB: Origo, Sweden.
Design for Infrastructure:
- China Railway Eryuan Engineering Group Co: Application of openBIM in the design and delivery of Guiyang-Nanning high-speed railway, China.
- Copenhagen Metro: openBIM integration and data validation in conceptual design phase for the new M5 Metro Line, Denmark.
Facilities management:
- Københavns Ejendomme: KEJD Dataportal – towards next-gen IFC, Denmark.
Handover:
- Electrical & Mechanical Services Department, the Government of the Hong Kong SAR: Transforming MEP project handover practices – Embracing BCF, bSDD, IDS, IFC and openBIM into BIM asset management lifecycle, Hong Kong.
Professional research:
- Mostostal Warszawa: Assist-IoT – Smart safety on construction site, IoT platform utilising openBIM and AI for automatic OSH monitoring and incident location with use of an IFC model, Poland.
- Eindhoven University of Technology: Use, reuse but do not abuse resources – an openBIM approach to standardising terminology, data and processes for circular construction information management and exchange, Netherlands.
- Politecnico di Milano: IFC cost – redefining cost efficiency and transparency in the AEC industry, Italy.
Student research:
- Ecole de Technologie Supérieure de Montréal: Development and implementation of a use case-based IDS catalogue for manufacturers augmented by the bSDD, Canada.
- Technical University of Denmark: A methodology for integrating lifecycle assessment data within the IFC schema through openBIM workflows, Denmark.
- The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology: CarbonSmart – Automated knowledge graph-based carbon assessment and tracking throughout the construction lifecycle using openBIM, openGIS and blockchain, Hong Kong.
Technology:
- BIM & Scan: OpenOp – An openBIM lifecycle management platform, validation and reconstruction tools, Ireland.
- Onestruction: OpenAEC – openBIM solution packages – Realisation of openBIM workflows starting with bSDD&IDS, Japan.
- ACCA Software: usBIM.IDS – IDS for everyone, Italy.
Zwing Innovation: An independent openBIM auditing platform for the whole project lifecycle featuring IDS, bSDD, BCF, openCDE, openGIS and AI chat on IDS powered by RAG, Hong Kong.
Registration for the buildingSmart International Summit – Marrakesh 2024 is now open.
