BIM Blockchain API

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Time To Market : 4 weeks

"You deliver fast, probably even faster than I expected. I will be able to apply the agile methodology at Socotec, thanks to the tools I saw in use at Sipios."

Ophélie Vincendon, BIM project manager

 

 

 

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The challenge

Socotec is the French leader for construction control. The company started digitising technical controls by offering BIM management services. The objective is to sign 100 new BIM projects and prevail on the market. To that extent, the challenge was to replace 85% of all PDF technical control by digital reports, while maintaining optimal traceability of each step of the process for insurers.  
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The solution

An app locking the digital models and the technical control notices in the Ethereum public blockchain, guaranteeing traceability and immutability for each action and piece of data. The app interfaces with a digital platform for BIM technical control and with an augmented reality app to promote collaborative work by offering comments and views to the project's stakeholders.

Key figures

150 000

reports per month

14M€

savings in paper storage

31

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Deliver an app in the Ethereum blockchain within 4 weeks

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Build trust with the blockchain

Every technical control involves several actors with diverging objectives : architects, subject mastery and technical controllers. Using the blockchain to immutably track each event allows insurers to know who did what at any given point in time. 

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Control the blockchain costs

We relied on the Ethereum blockchain to secure the technical control notices. To free ourselves from the market fluctuation on the gas price, we set up a queueing system which allow the push of the data in the blockchain when the gas price decreases bellow a certain threshold. 

Technologies

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The technical challenges we faced

I deployed 3 smart contracts in the mainnet network of the Ethereum 3 blockchain for saving and exporting digital models. I used an IPFS distributed database to generate hashes from models up to 900Mo large and limit the storage costs in the blockchain. 
- Woody Rousseau / CTO
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The product challenges

The challenge was to deliver a POC in only 4 weeks on a cutting edge technology, the blockchain, in the context of a little digitised sector. We integrated a product ecosystem involving 2 other start-ups, Bimdata for handling digital models and Horus for augmented reality aspects. This collaboration enabled the simplification of the whole process for technical controllers. 
- Charles Mordacq / Agile coach

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