WP056: Practical and Research Issues in Using Industry Foundation Classes for Construction Cost Estimating

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Abstract: Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) have made substantial progress in recent years, and many design software companies now provide export capabilities of IFC-based product models. Consequently, product models are starting to become available from commercial design software programs used in the building construction industry. Yet, there has been limited testing of IFC-based product model representations to support the many processes and tasks required from construction professionals. In particular, IFC-based product models contain quantity information that could be used for cost estimating. In this research study, we assess the usefulness of IFC's to meet the practical needs of construction cost estimators.

Type of resource	text
Date created	January 2000

Author	Staub-French, Sheryl
Author	Fischer, Martin

Subject	CIFE
Subject	Center for Integrated Facility Engineering
Subject	Stanford University
Subject	Cost Estimation
Subject	Product Models
Genre	Technical report

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/js500hx3283

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Preferred Citation: Staub-French, Sheryl and Fischer, Martin. (2000). WP056: Practical and Research Issues in Using Industry Foundation Classes for Construction Cost Estimating. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/js500hx3283

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