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software testing

Objective

Most of us want COBie to work without having to figure it out. Experience shows, however, that products may not always work as expected. Testing the results yourself is the only way to know for sure.

Prairie Sky Consulting has been testing software for over a decade -- since we invented the COBie standard. Need help with testing your software or process? Contact us today!

Team

Here is our world-class team of experienced, knowledgable, and dedicated architects and engineers working to move COBie into hands-on pratice (in alphabetical order):

Bill East	Prairie Sky Consulting	Program Manager
Emma Hooper	METZ Architects	Revit - 60% Architectural
Craig Hardingham	MLM Group	Revit - Structural
Rob Jackson	Bond Bryan Digital	ARCHICAD - 30% Architectural
Shawn O'Keeffe & Richard Kenna	MMA Consulting Engineers	Revit - All Engineering Models
(coming soon)		Construction Management
(coming soon)		COBie During Construction

Process

Initial COBie Challenge events used models too small to rigourously test capability or too large to complete. Now, the inventor of COBie has teamed with architects and engineers to develop a new test building, the East Dormitory.

The overall project is to design, build, and operate four small dormitories on a fictous site adjacent to the University of Illinois, in Champaign, Illinois, USA. Our test includes one of these four buildings - the "East Dormitory." The design is based on standard concept drawings provided by a United States Government agency.

Iterative testing between team and software developers helps you capture and use COBie data as an integral part of typical design and construction process. Our recomendations have already found thier way into commercial software.

Verficiation testing uses the open-source COBie QC Repoter and COBie Plugin. These tools have been used as the basis for all NBIMS-US COBie testing to date. Chris Bogen and Bill East created these tools using the open-source bimServer.org platform developed by Leon van Berlo and his team at TNO.

For more information on these tools see our books.

East Dormitory Test Files

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Early Design (30%) Files 9

Architectural Design Files (Jun-2016)

Design Drawings (.PDF) (6 MB)
Design Drawings (.DWG) (10 MB)
Coordination and COBie MVD STEP Files (.IFC) (9 MB)
COBie (.XLSX) and Design QC Report (.HTML) (1 MB)
Graphisoft Viewer and Model (.BIMX)

Structural Design Files (Jun-2016)

Design Drawings (.PDF) (2 MB)
Coordination MVD STEP Files (.IFC) 1 MB)
Native Software File (.RVT) (9 MB)
Model Review Notes (.PDF) (1 MB)
(note: structural is out of scope for COBie)

Construction Documents Design (90%) Files 37

Architectural Design Files (Aug-2017)

Design Drawings (.PDF) (3 MB)
Native Architectural File (.RVT) (17 MB)
Native Site File (.RVT) (< 1 MB)
COBie XLSX File (.XLSX) (< 1 MB)
Coordination MVD File (.IFC) (< 3 MB)

Structural Design Files (Sep-2017)

Native Structural File (.RVT) (4 MB)
Coordination MVD File (.IFC) (< 1 MB)
(note: structural is out of scope for COBie)

HVAC Design Files (Aug-2017)

Design Drawings (.PDF) (1 MB)
Native Software File (.RVT) (8 MB)
COBie XLSX File (.XLSX) (< 1 MB)
COBie QC Report (.HTML) (< 1 MB)
Coordination MVD File (.IFC) (< 1 MB)

Electrical Design Files (Aug-2017)

Design Drawings (.PDF) (1 MB)
Native Software File (.RVT) (7 MB)
COBie XLSX File (.XLSX) (< 1 MB)
COBie QC Report (.HTML) (< 1 MB)
Coordination MVD File (.IFC) (< 1 MB)

Plumbing Design Files (Jul-2017)

Design Drawings (.PDF) (2 MB)
Native Software File (.RVT) (14 MB)
COBie XLSX File (.XLSX) (< 1 MB)
COBie QC Report (.HTML) (< 1 MB)
Coordination MVD File (.IFC) (5 MB)

HVAC Controls Design Files (Jul-2017)

Design Drawings (.PDF) (< 1 MB)
Native Software File (.RVT) (3 MB)
COBie XLSX File (.XLSX) (< 1 MB)
COBie QC Report (.HTML) download(< 1 MB)
Coordination MVD File (.IFC) (< 1 MB)

Fire Protection Design Files (Jul-2017)

Design Drawings (.PDF) (1 MB)
Native Software File (.RVT) (5 MB)
COBie XLSX File (.XLSX) (< 1 MB)
COBie QC Report (.HTML) (< 1 MB)
Coordination MVD File (.IFC) (< 1 MB)

Security System Design Files (Aug-2017)

Design Drawings (.PDF) (< 1 MB)
Native Software File (.RVT) (3 MB)
COBie XLSX File (.XLSX) (< 1 MB)
COBie QC File (.HTML) (< 1 MB)
Coordination MVD File (.IFC) (< 1 MB)

Federated Design Files 6

Example COBie Design Deliverable (.ZIP) (12 MB)
Coordination MVD File in STEP Physical File Format (.IFC) (16 MB)
Differences in STEP File Viewers (.PDF) (< 1 MB)
NAVIS Model (.ZIP) (30 MB)
Solibri File (.SMC) (8 MB)
COBie eBook

Construction Management (coming 2019)

Critical Path Method (CPM) Schedule
CPM-Derived Bar Chart
Construction Schedule Animation
Cost Estmimate

COBie During Construction (coming 2019)

Implementing Lean Handover™ (YouTube)