BIM and 3D GIS Integration for Digital Twins

Building Information Modelling (BIM) uses a combination of technologies and resources to capture, manage, analyze, and display a digital representation of the physical and functional characteristics of a facility. GIS offers tools for visualizing and analyzing the built and natural environments and their impacts on infrastructure systems such as land use, transportation, etc. This book offers a framework for how the geospatial and surveying industry can create and integrate BIM with GIS. Through practical implementation methods, readers will merge GIS data with design and BIM data, to enable digital twins. Features Integrates BIM and GIS from a geospatial and surveying point of view for the first time. Addresses the creation of BIM from existing constructed buildings instead of typical pre-construction scenarios. Explains how to deliver BIM-suitable surveys to surveyors and geospatial practitioners. Provides surveying and geospatial industry expertise in the collecting, locating, managing, and communicating of BIM. Introduces new knowledge on validation and integration of BIM and GIS, in the spatial industry. Transitions to an important role in built environment digital twins. This is an excellent book for professionals working with 3D data for built environments digital twins, such as city planners, land surveyors, and geospatial practitioners. It is also an insightful resource for those working and studying in the fields of GIS, surveying, and geospatial engineering, providing the most current tools and resources for dealing with BIM.