# Presentation: 222008

## aecXML in 15 minutes or less

- Duane Barrett
- vice chair, IAI aecXML Domain
- vice chair, ASHRAE TC1.5 Computer Applications
- product manager, HVAC Applications - Bentley Systems

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## Origins of aecXML

- The Internet raised expectations  for information flow within and among businesses
- HTML has been a key enabler
- XML is an extension separating presentation from data, allows for industry-specific vocabularies
- aecXML is XML vocabulary for the AEC/O industries

## What is it exactly?

- a method of transporting data via the Internet
- an agreed upon format throughout multiple venders
- a means of describing and sharing commodity data within AEC/O
- a fancy name for a self-describing ASCII file
- a tool for eBusiness
- used by project hosting extranets

## What it’s not...

- an IFC for modeling (nor should it be)
- a file format
- closed
- a complex dictionary of every building component known to man
- vendor specific

## IFC’s Vs aecXML?

- absolutely not... they complement one another
- IFC’s rich environment can model an air-handling unit...
- 				while aecXML is only meant to “talk about” or describe it.

## IFC’s & aecXML Together

## How has it Progressed?

- Initiated in August of 1999
- Preliminary schema written
- companies recruited
- established within the IAI, Dec. 1999
- support has escalated over the past 2 months
- international domains are being formed in Australia/New Zealand, Singapore, Japan and the UK.... So far.
- It’s only 10 months old!

## aecXML Project - Participants

- Primavera Systems
- Bentley Systems
- Autodesk
- Graphisoft
- Nemetschek
- AEA Technologies
- McGraw-Hill/CIG
- CMD Group/RSMeans
- Timberline
- Deltek Systems
- Steelcase

- ARCOM
- BSD SpecLink
- National BuildingSpecification
- Building ConstructionInformation Service
- AIA
- IAI
- E-Construct
- EuroSTEP AB

## aecXML Project - Participants

- Carrier
- Owner-Operator Forum
- California State Univ.
- US - GSA
- AB OVO GmbH
- Kvaerner E & C
- Strata Systems
- PurchasePro - AECconnect
- eBricks
- HeavyWare

- Build-Online, Ltd.
- Projectsite.com
- ProjectEdge
- BidCom
- BlueLine/Online
- Constructw@re
- BuildNet
- BuildPoint
- buzzsaw.com
- BricsNet.net

## Current Working Groups

- Catalogs: HeavyWare,Ari Gordon-Schlosberg
- Design/etc: Bentley Systems, Tom Chmielenski
- Facility/etc: Mehdi Khalvati (co-chair)
- Procurement Twigg Consulting,John Twigg
- Project/etc: BidCom, Larry Chen
- Plant: InStepSoftware, Pat Cichanski
- ProjectNews: Greg Nowak
- Definitions - Special Task Group: Jerry Conrad, CMD Group

## Latest additions

- Revit
- StructXML (Dr. Robert Miner of Geomtech Inc.  co-author of MathML included)
- gbXML Schema - GeoPraxis
- Primaveria Schema
- Timberline Schema
- NIBS Schema

## What we need

- Revisit the processes
- self-sustaining
- totally web-moderated
- projects pull working groups
- Structure for ensuring current IFCs are leveraged

## Where Do We Go From Here?

- aecXML v1.0 - By End of 2000
- Regional aecXML Domains being established worldwide
- Australia/New Zealand, Singapore, Japan, UK, Germany, Scandinavia

## aecXML Mid-Year Meeting

- June 23, 2000
- Georgia World Congress Center (the Atlanta convention facility), 285 International Boulevard, Atlanta, Georgia 30313
- Activities begin at 9 a.m.  in Room 306 - East Wing of the Congress Center
- Series of demonstrations and presentation of aecXML proposed schema by such software and information leaders as Bentley Systems, Incorporated, in cooperation with R.S. Means (a Cahners Business publication); Timberline Software, Primavera Software and its so-to-be launched sister operation, PrimeContract, and ARCOM the developer of MasterSpec. Adjournment will be no later than 4 p.m.

## More aecXML Information

- WebSite
- http://www.aecxml.org
- Newsgroups
- news::news.aecxml.org
- Email Lists
- http://majordomo.aecxml.org
- Email
- info@aecxml.org