GS322-2: Analyzing Facility Management Requirements for Digital Cities + 3D Facility Management Based on CityGML

Instructor: Andreas Wagner with Florian Albrecht

Class Description: In the future, Facility Management (FM) applications in 3D will require connections to the building's surroundings. Autodesk's Digital Cities Initiative provides a generic approach for a platform that supports geospatial applications across the entire city administration explicitly including FM. Such an open perspective on FM embeds the building in its surrounding (urban) environment.

Based on workshops with the administration of the City of Salzburg, Austria, we investigate the requirements of a Digital City that integrates FM with GIS. Workflows and their related processes are analyzed in terms of their requirements for supporting data models.

Next, we demonstrate how a combination of architecture (CAD) and GIS in 3D facility management applications based on the standard CityGML can be achieved. This part of the class lends a more practical touch since it is based on a real customer example.