When coordinate systems don't match across disciplines, models that look correct in isolation fail to align. The errors often don't surface until late in the project, when they're expensive to fix. This two-day course at VDI Wissensforum covers coordinate reference systems, transformation methods (Helmert and NTv2), and how IFC 4.3 handles georeferencing at the schema level.
Štefan teaches it. The audience is BIM coordinators, surveyors, and infrastructure planners who deal with georeferenced models in practice.
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What the seminar covers
- Coordinate reference systems and their role in construction and infrastructure projects
- Transformation methods: Helmert and NTv2
- IFC 4.3 georeferencing at the schema level: IfcProjectedCRS, IfcMapConversion, and related entities
- Where GIS and BIM pipelines diverge and how to integrate them without data loss
- Quality assurance and model coordination for georeferenced deliverables
- Case studies from infrastructure practice: common failure modes and how to catch them early
Instructor
Štefan is our founder and managing director. His doctorate at TU Munich was on georeferencing in BIM. He applied that research in infrastructure consulting — including a georeferencing study for the Erzgebirge Base Tunnel on the Dresden–Prague high-speed rail corridor — and teaches it here.