Exploitation of Digital Data from Building Information Models in Virtual Reality Technology

This paper proposes a flexible approach to exploit digital data from building information models (BIM) by calling Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) using Representational State Transfer (REST) architectures, from which an application of Virtual Reality (VR) running on mobile devices is built. By adding these techniques, the application can address retrieving information from Common Data Environment (CDE) stored on a server, view the BIM model, and allow users to interact with data associated with each object in a virtual environment. Research results help software developers, engineers, managers to easily exploit M&E data and increase efficiency in the operation and management of the building.