Harnessing BIM for 3D Digital Management of Stratified Ownership Rights in Buildings
Behnam Atazadeh et al.
With the growing dominance of high-rise building structures and complex infrastructure in urban areas, land administration systems are facing new challenges for managing ownership rights in complex urban environments. Ownership spaces defined by irregular physical structures inside high-rise buildings may not be effectively communicated via flat and 2D-based representations. Therefore, land administration systems are seeking to adopt 3D digital approaches for managing and representing complex ownership rights. On the other hand, there has been a significant leap in the development of Building Information Modelling (BIM) approach within the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry. As an integrated and 3D digital information repository, BIM provides many benefits and resource savings in comparison with 2D-based modes of information communication, facilitating collaboration among different AEC actors throughout the development cycle of buildings. BIM models provide a rich amount of 3D spatial and semantic information about buildings; however, information about ownership rights within buildings has not yet been meshed into BIM models. This paper suggests that a BIM based approach can be used as a possible solution to overcome current challenges of managing ownership rights in high-rise buildings. 3D ownership data elements have been investigated and implemented within a prototype BIM model for a high-rise building in Melbourne. The prototype demonstrates the feasibility of using BIM models for managing complex ownership rights in a 3D digital data environment.
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