Building Information Modelling (BIM) for First Nations Land Planning andInfrastructure Management — Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg

Working in partnership, Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg (KZA) and the Carleton Immersive Media

Studio (CIMS) propose the development of a novel, hybrid digital platform that brings

together the progressive community development initiatives of KZA with CIMS’ established

research record in the field of building information modelling (BIM). The research

challenges involved in the development of a comprehensive BIM for KZA are considerable.

First, the physical size of the property, some 18000ha, is well beyond the conventional

scale of a BIM. Secondly, the complexity and scale of the assets that KZA plan to

incorporate through the BIM (community archival information, data related to infrastructure,

existing GIS, planning proposals) challenge the parameters of current best practice for

BIM. We propose a hybrid BIM/GIS (geographic information system) that integrates new

and existing 2 and 3 dimensional data through an interoperable viewer client.

Faculty Supervisor:

Stephen Fai;Anthony Whitehead

Student:

Partner:

Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Public administration

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

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