COBie Construction Operation Building Information Exchange

COBie is the Information content for the exchange during the life of a project .Information contains specific project details helpful for understanding, Operating and maintaining a facility properly. One such information is the inventory of spaces and their functional requirements.

To facilitate these requirements the designer must provide a spatial layout for building ,facility ,floor & room number which forms the basis of assigning equipment and products to specific space. Strictly no information on furniture and structural members.

In order to obtain information at right time along the life cycle of a facility in BUILDING DELIVERY PROCESS a mechanism is needed. Such a mechanism should filter out unnecessary information , reorganize for owner’s convenience.

Spreadsheet can be a perfect tool to manage information in small amounts and simple relationships .The COBie project bridges the gap in interpretation by identifying the similarity in the process that contractors,operators , maintainers & asset managers use to accomplish daily activities.

Ever wondered what all COBie does..????It does everything from planning,design,construction,commissioning all the way to operations,maintenance & management of spaces .Simply changes the required deliverable from paper documents to electronic formats.”If you use COBie in a way which violates the COBie specification you are no longer meeting the COBie requirement .You are doing something else that is not COBie– Bill East(Inventor of COBie)” .COBie is specifically for the purpose it was designed.

Here is the data flow in COBie,

Compiled and edited by Shantha Priya S.