COBIE Information Delivery Manual

This page provides the outline of the Information Delivery Manual for the North American Construction Operations Building Information Exchange Information Exchange (COBIE) standard. This information exchange is slightly different in scope than many of the previously completed information exchanges. That is because the people who defined the requirement for COBIE were facility Operations, Maintenance, and Asset Management personnel in conjunction with construction contractors.

IDM Status

Apr 2006 Process maps were completed following an extensive industry analysis
Mar 2007 Pilot standard published in NBIMS version 1.0
Apr 2007 Work to complete COBIE IDM for the NBIMS PILOT standard began

Process Maps

The Process Maps linked here describe the specific processes that drive information exchange. Business Process Modeling Notation ([www.bpmn.org]) is used to model the process flow for each such domain. The process maps provided here do not attempt to model the entire view points of each member of the capital facilities industries. These models describe the flows needed to complete this specific requirement. These generic models can be used, referenced or modified within a national, organizational or project scope to suit specific needs.

(PM-1) Identify Submittal Requirements (Apr 2006)
(PM-2) Define Submittal Schedule (Apr 2006)
(PM-3) Transmit Submittal (Apr 2006)
(PM-4) Approve Submittal (Apr 2006)
(PM-5) Install Equipment (Apr 2006)
(PM-6.A) Commission Equipment (Apr 2006)
(PM-6.B) Commission Equipment (Apr 2006)
(PM-7) Provide Warranty (Apr 2006)
(PM-8) Provide Spare Parts Sources (Apr 2006)
(PM-9) Transmit Handover Information (Apr 2006)

Exchange Requirements

Exchange Requirement describe the information needed by a business process to be executed as well as the information produced by the same business process. An exchange requirement attempt to break down these information requirements into concepts which can be easily understood. Each Exchange Requirement references the Process Map that defines the requirement for the Exchange Requirement.

Functional Parts

A Functional Part is a reusable, specific set of information found in an Exchange Requirement that identifies every entity, every attribute, property set and property concerned. Because of the detail included, functional parts can also be broken down into other functional parts. That is, a functional part may call on the services of other functional parts in the same way as exchange requirements.

Implementation Status.

Implementation status of this standard may be found through the COBIE fact sheet found at www.nbims.org.

Acknowledgments.

This project was initially sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.