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buildingSMART USA May 13, 2026, Operational Intelligence, Online
Extend openBIM into Operational Intelligence with buildingSMART USA | buildingSMART USA posted on the topic | LinkedInbuildingSMART USA Webinar Series 2026
Don’t Let openBIM Become Orphaned at Handover:
How Owners Can Extend it into Operational Intelligence
May 13, 2026 | 9am Pacific / 12pm Eastern
Register: https://lnkd.in/gEBPJDVN
Speakers:
Kimon Onuma FAIA (Onuma Inc. & bS-USA Building Committee)
Parastoo Delgoshaei (National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Stephen Lothrop (PAE)
How owners, AECO teams, and buildingSMART can preserve context, relationships, and usability beyond handover using Resource Description Framework (RDF) and knowledge graphs.
Most BIM goes dark at handover. Rich building information gets flattened into static files, leaving owners and operators without the context needed for real operations and leaving AI and IoT systems guessing. This session shows how openBIM can move beyond project delivery and become operational intelligence: live, connected, and usable across the building lifecycle. Using the PAE Living Building as a real-world example, we will show how RDF and knowledge graphs preserve relationships, reduce ambiguity, and help create AI-ready, interoperable building systems. Owners are the key to this shift: by asking better questions, setting clearer requirements, and insisting on open standards, they can help turn static models into living systems.
Register: https://lnkd.in/gEBPJDVN
#webinarseries #openBIM #AI #operation #handover #buildingSMARTUSA
ASHRAE June 27-July 1, 2026 Austin TX
Maintaining Digital Twins through Semantic Bridges | Kimon Onuma FAIA posted on the topic | LinkedInMost digital twins die at handover.
Not because the building fails.
Because the relationships behind the building disappear into a box of BIM files, PDFs, spreadsheets, disconnected dashboards, and siloed systems.
At the upcoming in Austin, I’ll be presenting:
From Handover to Lifecycle: Maintaining Living Digital Twins through Semantic Bridges
🗓 Wednesday, July 1
https://lnkd.in/gEQZW5Fv
The session focuses on the PAE Living Building
and a challenge the entire industry is now facing:
How do we maintain digital continuity after occupancy?
During design and construction, thousands of relationships exist between spaces, systems, equipment, sensors, controls, and operations.
After handover, much of that intelligence collapses into disconnected exports:
BIM, GIS, IFC, COBie, RDF snapshots, dashboards, and spreadsheets.
The building still operates.
But the meaning is fragmented.
In this session, we will show how we approached that problem by:
• Using RDF to establish an ASHRAE 223P-aligned semantic baseline
• Preserving asset identity and topology through persistent IDs
• Creating a Semantic Bridge to maintain relationships across systems and context of BIM over time
• Federating systems rather than centralizing them
• Extending the approach from a single building to portfolio scale
Including how the California Community Colleges system (~5,000 buildings) becomes part of a statewide operational digital twin strategy.
This work emerged through collaboration across the C4SB - Coalition for Smarter Buildings , ONUMA, Inc. , PAE, SkyCentrics, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory , National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Asset Leadership Network, and others working toward open interoperability and lifecycle continuity.
Presenting together with: Parastoo Delgoshaei Stephen Lothrop Michael Poplawski Ana Thiemer
AI is accelerating the urgency of this work.
Without explicit relationships and structured meaning, AI simply hallucinates across disconnected building data.
The goal is preserving data and meaning over time.
#ASHRAE #DigitalTwin #SemanticWeb #223P #SmartBuildings #Interoperability #AI #BIM #KnowledgeGraph #C4SB #BuildingOperations #DigitalTransformationUSGBC AI Readiness - June 3, 2026, Online
AI Readiness for Building Owners: Preserving Operational Intelligence | Kimon Onuma FAIA posted on the topic | LinkedInThe old silo was data trapped in software. The next silo may be intelligence trapped inside firms.
The USGBC's weekly Summer Cohort Series on advancing existing building performance with AI is officially kicking off.
As part of the series, I will be presenting "AI Readiness: The Architecture of Intelligence for Owners" on Wednesday, June 3rd, alongside Stephen Lothrop , PAE and Parastoo Delgoshaei , National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
We are using the PAE Living Building as our real-world proof to discuss a critical, overlooked barrier: the catastrophic loss of operational intelligence during project handover. We meticulously design for physical sustainability, yet we waste the most renewable resource we have, intelligence.
Even in one of the most advanced buildings in the country, the systems worked, but the intelligence did not travel. High-performance building intelligence is too often flattened into static files and disconnected dashboards the moment a project moves into operations. Learn how the PAE Living Building came to life with living data.
AI does not fail because buildings lack data; it fails because buildings lack a machine-readable way to preserve system meaning.
If owners do not mandate "Building Readiness" and semantic standards such as ASHRAE 223P, they will eventually be forced to rent back their building's intelligence for operations and LEED v5 validation.
Join us to learn how owners can require an intelligence layer that compounds inside their own organization, rather than disappearing into the proprietary systems.
Register for the series here:
https://lnkd.in/gMhniRji
ALN Global Asset Management Conference - May 27-30, 2026 Washington DC
AIA LA: Architectural Intelligence March 3, 2026 Los Angeles, CA
Q&A with Industry Leaders from the AIA-Los Angeles 2026 Technology Conference: AI Architectural Intelligence | Kimon Onuma FAIAYour most expensive building failure may be informational.
Not mechanical.
What stood out to me at the AIA Los Angeles Technology Conference was the growing recognition that we still lose intelligence at handover.
Architects and engineers create a tremendous amount of knowledge during design and construction.
But that work is ultimately for owners, who are responsible for buildings full of occupants, patients, students, staff, customers, and visitors.
When building intelligence gets flattened into files, disconnected systems, and static deliverables, the risk does not stay on paper.
It shows up later in operations, cost, delays, confusion, and sometimes in failures that affect people and property.
This is an owner issue.
An operations issue.
A public safety issue.
Thanks to Kathy Berardi for pulling together perspectives from across the event and including my full keynote here.Microgrid Consortium - Feb. 27, 2026 Online Recording
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