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LTF_Lighting-Fixture Ring

Create unlimited lighting variations with parametric control.
The PD_LTF_Lighting-Fixture_Luminaire-Ring Family is a powerful, fully parametric Revit family that allows users to create limitless lighting fixture configurations.

2025-02-09 No Comments

carbon sink

A carbon sink is a natural or artificial reservoir that captures and stores morecarbon than it releases. Examples include forests, oceans, soil and potentially timber buildings. We need these reservoirs

2022-07-15 No Comments

Subject to Simultaneous Overload

Where circuits are grouped, there are two availablemethods of calculating the rating factor Cg to be applied: [BS7671:2018,Appendix 4,5.1.2:Equation 2] [BS7671:2018,Appendix 4,5.1.2:Equation 3,4]

2023-02-05 No Comments

Association

An association is used to link data and artefacts to flow objects. Non-flow objects, such as text and graphics, can be associated with flow objects and flow.[1] Symbol [1] Silver,

2022-07-04 No Comments

ontology

An ontology is a set of rules that make it possible to link data on a semantic level. Means the unstructured, semi-structured data can be read and encoded by computers.

2022-07-11 No Comments

Technical Committee (TC)

a Technical Committee (TC), which develops standards in a certain sector or industry; https://www.iso.org/glossary.html

2022-07-24 No Comments

enumerated type value

data type consisting of a set of named values called elements, members, enumeral, or enumerators ofthe type

2022-07-24 No Comments

Main Contractor

Lead Appointed party or Tier 1 contractor

2022-07-27 No Comments

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Digital twin

ELI5-S1 BIM Basics E19_Digital Twin “The digital twin is the virtual representation of a physical object or system across its life-cycle. It uses real-time data and other sources to enable

2022-07-24 No Comments

Gross Internal Area (GIA)

The total area of buildings owned, occupied, or maintained, measured to the internal face of the perimeter walls at each floor level, is referred to as GIA (i.e. the footprint

2022-07-24 No Comments

Level of model definition

The PAS1192 term is replaced by ‘Level of information need’ an ISO19650 term Level of information need is a more generic term than any of the existing “Level of …”

2022-07-27 No Comments

Contract

Appointment ISO 19650 introduce term Appointment to be used instead of the more generic term contract. This means one term can be used for both external contracts and internal work

2022-07-27 No Comments

suitability

degree to which a product, system or information provides functions that meet stated and implied needs when used under specified conditions [cited from: ISO/IEC 25010:2011(en), 4.2.1, added word ‘information’] appropriateness

2022-07-27 No Comments

geometrical

This is an ISO 19650 term which replaces the PAS1192 term “graphical”. Geometrical is more appropriate to describe spatial positioning and relationships

2022-07-27 No Comments

Assignment matrix

Responsibility matrix [ISO19650] In ISO 19650 there is a principle to develop responsibility matrices to cover information management activities and information delivery. Responsibility matrix [PAS1192] The former is illustrated as

2022-07-27 No Comments

Last Planner System®

The collaborative, commitment-based planning system that integrates “should-canwill-did planning” (pull planning, make-ready look-ahead planning with constraint analysis, weekly work planning based upon reliable promises, and learning based upon analysis of

2022-07-11 No Comments

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Please can you confirm if the life system system has to be lidded?

Please can you confirm if the life system system has to be lidded? There is no requirement for the life system to be lidded. A lid is effectively required

2025-09-23 No Comments

major change

change that affects the meaning, function or intended useNOTE Definition applies to properties and groups of properties.PAS 14191:2020

2022-07-24 No Comments

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COBie data drop

COBie data drop Individual COBie data drops are the responsibility of Task Team BIM Managers, who must upload the required information containers in accordance with Exchange Information Requirements (EIR).The COBie

2022-10-15 No Comments

Facility Lifecycle

This refers to the time span stretching from a building’s conception to demolition including the five distinctive phases (Planning, Design, Construction, Operations, and Disposition).1 1 The Massachusetts Port Authority, 2015.

2022-07-11 No Comments

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Emergency Voice Communication System (EVCS)

What is an Emergency Voice Communication (EVC) system? An Emergency Voice Communication (EVC) system (also referred to as EVCS) is a fixed, monitored, two-way voice communication system that enables point-to-point

2022-07-20 No Comments

Unified Modelling Language (UML)

language to provide system (3.13) architects, software engineers, and software developers with toolsfor analysis, design, and implementation of software-based systems as well as for modelling businessand similar processesNote 1 to

2022-07-24 No Comments

Security Management Plan

A document (or part of a document) identified in the Information Particulars setting out the security requirements for carrying out the Works in a security-minded way, including any policies, protocols,

2022-07-11 No Comments

expert

person who, through knowledge or experience, has competence to give an opinion in the fields about which he/she is consulted[SOURCE: ISO 13302:2003, 3.10, modified — The domain “” has been

2022-07-24 No Comments

NWC

NWC is a cache file. “When you open a CAD file in Navisworks, by default, a corresponding cache file (NWC) is created, which contains all of the conversion details required

2022-07-11 No Comments

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Organizational Information Requirements (OIR)

ELI5-S1: BIM Basics E7: OIR explained information requirements in relation to organizational objectives BS EN ISO 19650‑1:2018 (3.3.3)

2022-07-24 No Comments

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How to respond to request for proposal (RFP)

Introduction It can be said that the digitalization of construction began with designers moving from drawing boards to computers. [1] In Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operation (ACEO), the focus has

2021-06-27 No Comments

Quality Assurance (QA)

Quality assurance (QA) is the action or process of verification that a requirement in terms of quality is being met. Managing the quality involves planning, establishing a workflow for fulfilling,

2022-07-15 No Comments

Information Controller

Responsible for setup and management of the Common Data Environment (CDE), document submission, RFI and other project document transactions. [Appointment: Lead Appointed Party Information Controller, site-based/office based.] [source] PDE 4301

2022-07-11 No Comments

breakdown structure

decomposition of a defined scope into progressively more detailed levels

2022-06-29 No Comments

Grouping rating factor (Cg)

Grouping rating factor used for calculatingminimum required cable size. For cables installed in air, values for this factor are given BS7671:2018,Tables4C1,4C4,4C6.For ground installations, values are given in Table4C2. Grouping a

2023-02-05 No Comments

Group

Because a group is not an activity or a flow object, it cannot connect to sequence or message flows. Furthermore, groups are not constrained by pool and lane restrictions. [1]

2022-06-29 No Comments

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Appointing Party context of information exchange

ELI5-S2: BIM in Practice E4: Appointing Party context of information exchange Understanding the Appointing Party (T0) Context of Information Exchange in BIM Welcome to the fourth installment of our ELI5-S2

2024-07-22 No Comments

BS EN ISO 21597-1:2020

Information container for linked document delivery — Exchange specification Part 1: Container

2022-07-24 No Comments

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Insurance Backed Alliancing projects under the IPI model

Introduction Martin Davis member of the New Models of Construction Procurement (NMCP) Working Group and the Integrated Project Insurance (IPI) mentor describes the Integrated Project Insurance model (IPI) coupled up

2020-11-17 1 Comment

fragmentation request

A fragmentation request corresponds to the deactivation of the property and the creation of several properties. After validation of the fragmentation request by the experts, the fragmented property is deactivated.

2022-07-24 No Comments

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