COBie - Construction Operations Building Information Exchange

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The Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) is a widely adopted US specification (an IFC - Industry Foundation Classes MVD - Model View Definitions for the exchange of IFC data to support facility management by owners and operators. A COBie file would typically be delivered as a spreadsheet.

There is some COBie support in BlenderBIM_Add-on. Also IfcOpenShell can make us of COBie_MicroMVD and both can use MicroMVDs for quality assurance of received data.

Software Libraries

• XbimCOBieExpress is a CPPL licensed library from xBIMTeam to manage COBie data in a similar way that Xbim.Ifc does for IFC data
• IfcOpenShell

See also

• IFC COBie to spreadsheet conversion - 200815 BlenderBIM Add-on Technical WIP Demo
• We have a tag for all discussions about COBie on our forum. Join the discussion!
• COBie_definition_of_a_maintainable_asset
• There is a MicroMVDs_for_exchange_requirements/COBie_MicroMVD for checking IFC file contents for correct COBie data