Marcin Pszczółka

Marcin Pszczółka

openBIM · IFC 4.3 for infrastructure

My name is Marcin Pszczółka. I help infrastructure teams use IFC 4.3 and openBIM on real projects: roads, rail, bridges and tunnels.

A few words about me

IFC 4.3 has 99 concepts. No infrastructure project needs all of them, but every project needs the right ones. That is my work: I know where each concept fits, by project phase, by role and by contract, and I help teams put the right ones into their openBIM workflow, with AI agents and tools made to measure.

I started with BIM in infrastructure in 2015, with my master’s thesis. Since then I have worked as a railway designer at COWI, as a BIM coordinator at Norconsult on large and small infrastructure projects, and as a product manager and BIM manager at Trimble, where I worked on the IFC 4.3 implementation in Quadri and Novapoint. I also delivered on the E39 Kristiansand-Mandal highway in Norway.

Today I teach and implement IFC 4.3 for infrastructure. I built an IFC 4.3 demo corridor with a road, a bridge, a railway, a tunnel, a river and utilities on one map. It is the base of everything I teach and of every audit I run. Engineers from 26 countries have learned IFC 4.3 with me in the IFC Infrastructure Masterclass.

I am a co-founder of BIM Corner, where I write about BIM in infrastructure: IFC 4.3, model structure, data quality and automation.

Privately, I like travelling, sports and spending time actively with my friends.

Road to BIM

Learn IFC 4.3 for infrastructure with me

On roadtobim.com you will find the IFC Infrastructure Masterclass, the free e-mail course The Alignment, my free live webinars, and audits and implementation for teams.

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My articles

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Open BIM

IFC 4.3 in Infrastructure. Watch Video

In today’s world, the exchange of high-quality information between different project parties is crucial for success, especially in the construction industry. To facilitate this process, ...
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Open BIM

IFC 4.3 on construction site

Recently, there has been a lot of discussion surrounding the advancements in the IFC 4.3 standard. One of the most significant changes is its support ...
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Open BIM

Spatial Breakdown Structure in IFC 4.3

Spatial Breakdown Structure (SBS) is a method of organizing and breaking down a project into smaller, manageable components. Spatial hierarchy used in IFC establishes a ...
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Open BIM

Relations I used to create iFC 4.3 for infrastructure

The Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) schema is an international standard for building and infrastructure information modeling. One of the key elements of the IFC schema ...
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Open BIM

IFC 4.3 in road projects – case study

In the first article in the IFC for Infrastructure series, I mentioned that IFC can be divided into 3 main thematic groups: objects, properties, relationships. ...
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Open BIM

All you need to know about IFC 4.3 for infrastructure

The transportation infrastructure until the release of the IFC 4.3 scheme was poorly represented in the IFC framework. Of course, it was and is possible ...
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