ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the major directions for the future of building information modelling (BIM)-enabled urban land administration. These directions include an integrated management of land administration processes in the BIM environment; extending BIM-enabled land administration for large infrastructure projects; and spatial reasoning of legal information in BIM models to enable three-dimensional (3D) data analytics capabilities for urban land administration. BIM tools provide the ability to define spatial and semantic properties of building elements for design and engineering purposes. These tools provide limited spatial relationships between two 3D objects, which results in limited queries of 3D data within the BIM environment. Legal boundaries of 3D properties often cannot be easily perceived, due to the existence of complex structural and architectural elements inside complex urban developments. BIM models provide highly detailed spatial and semantic information describing building components. The detailed representation of building components is not required in urban land administration practices.
