Everything about IFC

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: IFCA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Automated and interconnected facility management system: An open IFC cloud-based BIM solutionInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Finance MastersThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Automated Progress Monitoring Using Unordered Daily Construction Photographs and IFC-Based Building Information ModelsCited 294 times
5. Go sideways: ABCA closely related topic
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Automated Progress Monitoring Using Unordered Daily Construction Photographs and IFC-Based Building Information Models

  Mani Golparvar-Fard, Feniosky Peña-Mora, Silvio Savarese · 2015 · Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering · 294 citations

• IFC and building lifecycle management

  Renaud Vanlande, Christophe Nicolle, Christophe Cruz · 2008 · Automation in Construction · 257 citations

• Integration of BIM and GIS: Geometry from IFC to shapefile using open-source technology

  Junxiang Zhu, Xiangyu Wang, Peng Wang · 2019 · Automation in Construction · 173 citations

• The IFC-based path planning for 3D indoor spaces

  Ya-Hong Lin, Yu-Shen Liu, Ge Gao · 2013 · Advanced Engineering Informatics · 173 citations

• Board independence and GRI-IFC performance standards: The mediating effect of the CSR committee

  I.M. García-Sánchez, M.E. Gómez-Miranda, F. David · 2019 · Journal of Cleaner Production · 167 citations

• Bridge damage: Detection, IFC-based semantic enrichment and visualization

  Dušan Isailović, Vladeta Stojanovic, Matthias Trapp · 2020 · Automation in Construction · 141 citations

• Integration of BIM and GIS: IFC geometry transformation to shapefile using enhanced open-source approach

  Junxiang Zhu, Xiangyu Wang, Mengcheng Chen · 2019 · Automation in Construction · 126 citations

• IFC-centric performance-based evaluation of building evacuations using fire dynamics simulation and agent-based modeling

  Farid Mirahadi, Brenda McCabe, Arash Shahi · 2019 · Automation in Construction · 125 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Automated and interconnected facility management system: An open IFC cloud-based BIM solution

  Sandra Matarneh, Faris Elghaish, Farzad Pour Rahimian · 2022 · Automation in Construction · 78 citations

• BIM-based LCSA application in early design stages using IFC

  Carmen LLatas, Bernardette Soust-Verdaguer, Alexander Hollberg · 2022 · Automation in Construction · 73 citations

• Automation of Construction Progress Monitoring by Integrating 3D Point Cloud Data with an IFC-Based BIM Model

  Paulius Kavaliauskas, Jaime B. Fernandez, Kevin McGuinness · 2022 · Buildings · 67 citations

• IFC-based embodied carbon benchmarking for early design analysis

  Zaid Alwan, Bahriye Ilhan Jones · 2022 · Automation in Construction · 59 citations

• IFC-graph for facilitating building information access and query

  Junxiang Zhu, Peng Wu, Xiang Lei · 2023 · Automation in Construction · 55 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Finance MastersOlivier Coispeau · 2016

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