
Fig. 1
BeIM systems and the geographic environment.

Fig. 2
Relationship of levels of interoperability.

Fig. 3
Differences between LoD 4 for CityGML and the BIM counterpart.
Tab. 1
Recent developments on the integration of 3D city modelling and BIM.
| Source | Study origin | Area of application | Integration elements considered | Features |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Integration approaches using DFC | ||||
| Saygi et al. 2013 | Turkey Italy | Historic buildings and heritage site | GIS AutoCAD BIM (Revit) |
|
| Dore and Murphy 2012 | Ireland | Historic buildings and heritage site | CityGML BIM (ArchiCAD) |
|
| Thompson et al. 2011 | UK | Integration of cities | GIS |
|
| Irizarry and Karan 2012 | USA | Construction site management | GIS Revit Architecture |
|
| Integration approaches using the SM approach | ||||
| El-Mekawy et al. 2012 | Sweden | Building elements and features | CityGML IFC |
|
| Irizarry et al. 2013 | USA Canada | Construction supply chain management | GIS IFC |
|
| Cheng et al. 2013 | China | Levels of detail | IFC CityGML |
|
| Akinci et al. 2010 | USA | Semantic Web | CAD GIS |
|
| Isikdag and Zlatanova 2009 | The Netherlands | Level of detail | IFC CityGML |
|
| Hijazi et al. 2011 | Germany | Interior utilities | IFC CityGML |
|
| Borrmann 2010 | Germany | Spatial analysis | Spatial query language (SQL) IFC CityGML |
|
| Borrmann et al. 2015 | Germany | Shield tunnels | IFC GIS |
|
| Karan and Irizarry 2015 | USA | Semantic Web on preconstruction operations | GIS BIM XML |
|
| Integration approaches using the SM approach | ||||
| Karan et al. 2015 | ||||
| Döllner and Hagedorn 2007 | Germany | Semantic Web | CAD GIS BIM |
|
| Benner et al. 2005 | Germany | Building elements and features | IFC CityGML |
|
| Clemen and Gründig 2006 | Germany | Land survey | IFC GIS |
|
| de Laat and van Berlo 2011 | Netherlands | Semantic Web | CityGML IFC BIMServer |
|
| Peachavanish et al. 2006 | Thailand USA | Data exchange | CAD GIS |
|
| Isikdag et al. 2008 | Turkey UK | Site selection and safety management | IFC GIS |
|
| Stadler and Kolbe 2007 | Germany | Spatial analysis | CityGML IFC |
|
| Elbeltagi and Dawood 2011 | Egypt | Project management | GIS BIM (Revit) MS Project |
|
| Integration approaches combining DFC and SM | ||||
| Hijazi et al. 2009 | Germany/The Netherlands/Turkey | Water utility network | CAD BIM GIS |
|
| Rafiee et al. 2014 | The Netherlands | View coverage and shadow analysis | IFC GIS |
|

Fig. 4
System Architecture for 3D viewer for CAD/GIS/BIM integration (Döllner and Hagedorn 2007).

Fig. 5
Combining geometric LoD and semantic LoD in CityGML (Benner et al. 2013).

Fig. 6
BIM–3D city modelling integration approaches and applied methods.