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Robert Lipman joined the Computer Integrated Building Processes Group in May 1998 and works with product data models for structural steel. The two product data models are the CIMsteel Integration Standards (CIS/2) endorsed by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) that are developed by the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI) to facilitate interoperability in the building industry. He works with many CAD software vendors to improve their implementations of CIS/2 and IFC for structural steel. The development of the CIS/2 to VRML translator provides a way for users and software vendors to visualize and verify their CIS/2 models and a mapping between CIS/2 and IFC has been implemented in a CIS/2 to IFC translator. He works with many of the IAI committees related to improving various aspects of IFC. He has also developed visualizations of construction site equipment, the graphical user interface for the Virtual Cybernetic Building Testbed (VCBT), and visualization of laser range scanning. Mr. Lipman is currently involved with two new projects. The first is looking at developing methods and metrics for conformance testing for construction project data standards. The second project involves linking 3D imaging systems (laser scanning) with building information models to provide feedback to control on-site construction. Mr. Lipman came to NIST in 1994 and worked in the Information Technology Laboratory in the Scientific Visualization and Mathematical Software Groups. While in the Scientific Visualization Group he provided scientific visualization services to a wide variety of customers at NIST. He also was the original developer of WebSubmit and the primary developer of PADE (Parallel Applications Development Environment). In the Mathematical Software Group he did scientific visualization for the Matrix Market and Digital MathLib. He was involved with the Measurement Science for Optical Reflectance and Scattering competency project and developed a graphical user interface for Dataplot. From 1981 - 1994, Mr. Lipman worked at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (formerly the David Taylor Research Center) in the Computational Signatures and Structures Group where he served as Group Leader from 1992 - 1994. He was involved mainly with finite element modeling, analysis, and scientific visualization. This work involved magnetostatics for submarines, acoustic radiation, and the response of ships and submarines to underwater explosions. In 1990 he developed a scientific visualization facility for animating finite element models and results. In 1996 Mr. Lipman received a joint Bronze Medal for the Parallel Applications Development Environment. He is a member of AISC and Chi Epsilon. |
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Robert LipmanEducationCornell University, Bachelor of Science, 1979Cornell University, M.Eng. Civil Engineering, 1981 PositionComputer EngineerComputer Integrated Building Processes Group Building Environment Division Building and Fire Research Laboratory |
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Information Last updated: 11/16/2007