ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: The focus of 3D city models has been mostly on visualization in order to facilitate visual impact assessment and communication among stakeholders. Little attention has been given to describe the semantic information of the urban built environment. Buildings are the most important elements in the urban environment. Semantically-rich building model is required for analysis and simulation of urban built environment. A 3D city model standard, CityGML, developed by OGC holds the semantic building information while the IFC building information model developed by IAI (now BuildingSMART) provides rich semantic building information for the construction industry. This paper introduces the research work at the University of Salford, to develop the Building Feature Service (BFS) which can bring the semantic rich building model from the construction domain into urban environment to facilitate data sharing and integration across domains.
