Innovating the Construction Life Cycle through BIM/GIS Integration: A Review

Giuseppe Celeste, Mariangela Lazoi, Mattia Mangia and Giovanna Mangialardi
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Giuseppe Celeste: CNR, Centro Nazionale delle Ricerche, IPCF Department of Messina, 98158 Messina, Italy
Mariangela Lazoi: Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Mattia Mangia: Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Giovanna Mangialardi: Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 2, 1-19

Abstract: The construction sector is in continuous evolution due to the digitalisation and integration into daily activities of the building information modelling approach and methods that impact on the overall life cycle. This study investigates the topic of BIM/GIS integration with the adoption of ontologies and metamodels, providing a critical analysis of the existing literature. Ontologies and metamodels share several similarities and could be combined for potential solutions to address BIM/GIS integration for complex tasks, such as asset management, where heterogeneous sources of data are involved. The research adopts a systematic literature review (SLR), providing a formal approach to retrieve scientific papers from dedicated online databases. The results found are then analysed, in order to describe the state of the art and suggest future research paths, which is useful for both researchers and practitioners. From the SLR, it emerged that several studies address ontologies as a promising way to overcome the semantic barriers of the BIM/GIS integration. On the other hand, metamodels (and MDE and MDA approaches, in general) are rarely found in relation to the integration topic. Moreover, the joint application of ontologies and metamodels for BIM/GIS applications is an unexplored field. The novelty of this work is the proposal of the joint application of ontologies and metamodels to perform BIM/GIS integration, for the development of software and systems for asset management.

Keywords: BIM; GIS; metamodel; ontology; review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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