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Challenge

Build an IFC Operations Handover COBie Property Reconciler

Inspect Industry Foundation Classes models using IfcOpenShell to audit facility maintenance properties before operations handover. Pinpoint components missing manufacturer, serial number, or installation dates.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Inspect Industry Foundation Classes models using IfcOpenShell to audit facility maintenance properties before operations handover. Pinpoint components missing manufacturer, serial number, or installation dates.

Facility operations manager

Load IFC4 facility model assets using IfcOpenShell schema parsing routines.

Filter mechanical, electrical, and plumbing elements by classification and property sets.

Verify each target asset contains mandatory operational attributes including manufacturer, model, and serial number.

Produce a gap report highlighting defective property sets and format a draft maintenance intake record.

Web table listing IFC elements, COBie compliance badges, missing field callouts, and an action to export flagged entities to CSV.

Use open-source synthetic IFC sample files from the IfcOpenShell repository or mock IFC step files with deliberate property set omissions. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

IfcOpenShell Leverages IfcOpenShell Python and ifcfm parsing concepts to extract element property sets and verify handover parameters.

mastra-ai, ifcopenshell, fastapi. Mastra AI provides composable agent workflows and deterministic schema validation steps suited for multi-stage BIM asset property auditing. API-hosted LLM with reliable schema serialization and domain reasoning for architectural metadata.

Submit runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, a working interface, example outputs, and a recorded end-to-end demo. Include tests and an action log.

Correctly identifies IFC MEP entities and reads associated property sets.

Flags any equipment entity lacking mandatory manufacturer or warranty serial numbers.

Calculates an overall asset handover completeness percentage score.

```json [ { "input": { "model_id": "IFC-BLD-01", "assets": [ { "element_id": "Pump-101", "type": "IfcPump", "properties": { "Manufacturer": "Grundfos", "ModelReference": "Magna3", "SerialNumber": "SN-849204" } } ] }, "expected_output": { "total_assets": 1, "compliant_assets": 1, "compliance_score_percent": 100, "missing_fields": [] } }, { "input": { "model_id": "IFC-BLD-02", "assets": [ { "element_id": "Boiler-202", "type": "IfcBoiler", "properties": { "Manufacturer": "Viessmann" } } ] }, "expected_output": { "total_assets": 1, "compliant_assets": 0, "compliance_score_percent": 0, "missing_fields": [ { "element_id": "Boiler-202", "fields": [ "ModelReference", "SerialNumber" ] } ] } } ] ```

Does not commit updates to live computerized maintenance management software without manual sign-off by a facility supervisor. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Does not commit updates to live computerized maintenance management software without manual sign-off by a facility supervisor. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Correctly identifies IFC MEP entities and reads associated property sets. Flags any equipment entity lacking mandatory manufacturer or warranty serial numbers. Calculates an overall asset handover completeness percentage score.

Submission format

Runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, working interface, example outputs, recorded demo, tests, and action logs.

Datasets

Challenge datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

Evaluation rubric

How submissions are scored

These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Dimensions
4 scoring checks
Binary
1 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
3 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

Complete workflow

Load IFC4 facility model assets using IfcOpenShell schema parsing routines. Filter mechanical, electrical, and plumbing elements by classification and property sets. Verify each target asset contains mandatory operational attributes including manufacturer, model, and serial number. Produce a gap report highlighting defective property sets and format a draft maintenance intake record.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 2

Correctness and evidence

Correctly identifies IFC MEP entities and reads associated property sets. Flags any equipment entity lacking mandatory manufacturer or warranty serial numbers. Calculates an overall asset handover completeness percentage score.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 3

Review interface

Web table listing IFC elements, COBie compliance badges, missing field callouts, and an action to export flagged entities to CSV.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 4

Safe execution

Does not commit updates to live computerized maintenance management software without manual sign-off by a facility supervisor.

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Load IFC4 facility model assets using IfcOpenShell schema parsing routines.

  • Filter mechanical, electrical, and plumbing elements by classification and property sets.

  • Verify each target asset contains mandatory operational attributes including manufacturer, model, and serial number.

  • Produce a gap report highlighting defective property sets and format a draft maintenance intake record.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Use open-source synthetic IFC sample files from the IfcOpenShell repository or mock IFC step files with deliberate property set omissions. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

Input details are not configured.

Mastra AI

TypeScript agent framework.

Evaluated output

No output checks are configured.

Evaluation checks
  • Load IFC4 facility model assets using IfcOpenShell schema parsing routines. Filter mechanical, electrical,...
  • Correctly identifies IFC MEP entities and reads associated property sets. Flags any equipment entity lackin...
  • Web table listing IFC elements, COBie compliance badges, missing field callouts, and an action to export fl...
Configured evaluation evidence
  • 2 public reference cases
Configured runtime
  • 2 configured tools

Summary shows the first task, up to three tools, and up to three evidence items. Open the technical recipe to view all configured items.

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • Mastra AI · Optional
Orchestration
  • Mastra AI · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • Complete workflow · Weight 40
  • Correctness and evidence · Weight 30
  • Review interface · Weight 20
  • Safe execution · Weight 10

Reference cases

  • 2 public reference cases

Workflow tasks

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Recipe freeze marker

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