Integration of BIM and GIS: Highway Cut and Fill Earthwork Balancing

Abstract

The proposed paper intends to provide a technical review between BIM and GIS and measure the different strengths and weaknesses of each approach. Then, the proposed project aims to present a newly developed data integration approach in facilitating the continuous work processes of the two distinct environments. This research utilizes BIM based (IFC) system to store road components data in highway construction and then GIS system to import data such as land boundaries, and topographic data. In order to retrieve and integrate the two distinct types of data formats, this research uses the concept of semantic web in RDF format to provide semantic interoperability between BIM and GIS operations.