PROJECT TITLE :

Governance Model for Cloud Computing in Building Information Management

ABSTRACT:

The AEC (Architecture Engineering and Construction) sector is a highly fragmented, information intensive, project based trade, involving a variety or very completely different professions and organisations. The industry's robust knowledge sharing and processing requirements suggests that that the management of building data is complex and difficult. We gift a knowledge sharing capability utilising Cloud Computing, with two key contributions: one) a governance model for building knowledge, primarily based on intensive analysis Pand industry consultation. This governance model describes how individual information artefacts at intervals a building data model relate to every other and how access to the present information is controlled; two) a prototype implementation of this governance model, utilising the CometCloud autonomic cloud computing engine, using the Master/Work paradigm. This prototype is in a position to successfully store and manage building knowledge, provide security primarily based on a defined policy language and demonstrate scale-out in case of increasing demand or node failure. Our prototype is evaluated both qualitatively and quantitatively. To enable this evaluation we tend to have integrated our prototype with the 3D modelling software-Google Sketchup. We tend to also evaluate the prototype's performance when scaling to utilise further nodes in the Cloud and to work out its performance in case of node failures.