Background The architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry lacks a
framework for capturing, managing, and exchanging project, product, and social information
over the lifecycle of a building. The current tools have various limitations, such as lack of
interoperability, slow to transfer huge building model files, and possibility of data
inconsistency. Methods In this paper, we present a cloud-based BIM server framework
namely Social BIMCloud that facilitates BIM information exchange through dynamic merging …