At BIM World 2025, held in Paris on April 2-3, Clément Colin, our research engineer in BL Research team, spoke at a workshop dedicated to Digital Twins, alongside Laurent Truscello, Product Marketing Manager at Carl Berger-Levrault. The theme of their talk: “GEM & GMAO – Valuing and increasing the use of your BIM models for maintenance”.
They returned to the issues of BIM (Building Information Modeling), CIM (City Information Modeling) and GEM (Gestion Exploration Maintenance) in the context of optimized technical building management, namely:
- Non-operational modeling of links between network objects
- Complex networks
- Insufficient consideration of the benefits of networks for BIM GEM during the building construction phase
- Lack of technical and scientific solutions
As a specialist in data visualization and spatial knowledge graph modeling, Clément demonstrated these latest scientific and technological advances through the CARL Maps BIM solution from Carl Berger-Levrault. He went into more detail on the possibilities offered by advanced BIM data exploitation, in order to better structure, understand and visualize technical networks based on digital mock-ups. This presentation provided a concrete illustration of how the technologies developed in collaboration with BL.Research can enhance CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) tools, by taking advantage of the topology of HVAC, plumbing and electrical networks modeled in BIM models. And has opened up promising research prospects for deepening 3D network visualization data with our MixedR solution: our mixed reality solution designed to enhance industrial operations, simplifying workflows and supporting better decision-making.
Laurent, for his part, spoke about the BIM and CMMS integration project carried out for the National Bank of Canada, for its head office in Montreal, a 40-storey building!
Couldn’t attend the presentation? The replay of the workshop is now available here: https://vimeo.com/1076644852/24912afdc7
To find out more, take a look at Clément Colin’s scientific article published on Research BL, in which he details the method for detecting the topology of technical networks using knowledge graphs: https://www.research-bl.com/exploiting-knowledge-of-bim-data-a-mep-network-topology-detection-method-using-geometry-and-spatial-knowledge-graph-technologies/
