BIMStorm
Early internet-scale BIM collaboration demonstrated that independently authored building information could become a shared working surface.
YONG KU KIM · ONUMA · PROJECT MANAGER
Making collaboration inspectable.
Ideas move fast. Evidence needs somewhere to live. Across BIMStorm, open BIM, standards work and today's live collaboration surfaces, Yong Ku Kim helps turn technical conversation into durable artifacts other people can see, challenge, correct, reuse and continue.
PUBLIC PROFILEOPEN FOR CORRECTIONNO ENDORSEMENT IMPLIED
THE WORK BEHIND THE WORK
The meeting ends. The artifact has to survive.
Complex collaboration fails when decisions, corrections, context and provenance disappear into calls, inboxes and memory. Yong's recurring contribution is visible at a different layer: capture the evolving work, give it structure, connect it to its sources, and leave behind a surface that another person can inspect later.
DISCUSS
CAPTURE
STRUCTURE
PUBLISH
CHALLENGE
CORRECT
REUSE
A LONG INTEROPERABILITY ARC
This did not start with digital twins.
The public record places Yong in collaborative BIM and interoperability work going back to the early BIMStorm era, through standards-oriented work and public-sector planning, and into today's living operational building-information experiments.
IFC · COBie · NBIMS
Yong appears in the public standards record around interoperable building information, including National BIM Standard contributor acknowledgements.
Owners + portfolios
Public planning records place him on ONUMA teams working with institutional owners and large, multi-stakeholder information environments.
Living BIMStorm
The work continues as live artifacts: preparation pages, laboratory records, lessons learned and operational building-information experiments.
“Collaboration yielding action and not just theoretical talk.”
YONG KU KIM · RESPONSE DURING THE SEPTEMBER 2026 COLLABORATION
THE ARTIFACT-MAKER
Documentation is not clerical when it preserves the architecture.
During the September 2026 work, Yong repeatedly converted fast-moving exchanges into public, inspectable surfaces: updating BIMStorm preparation records, connecting independent articles into the evolving record, publishing ONUMA lab material, and capturing a dense Monday Live discussion as a Lessons Learned artifact.
Conversation
Multiple people. Different architectures. Corrections, diagrams, disagreements, experiments and changed understanding.
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Inspectable record
A durable surface with links, attribution, context and enough continuity for somebody who was not in the room to reconstruct what happened.
WHY IT MATTERS
Provenance is not only for machines.
The next person can enter the work.
A preserved artifact reduces dependence on who happened to attend the meeting or remember the thread.
The record can change without erasing history.
When an assumption fails, the correction can become part of the inspectable chain rather than silently replacing what came before.
One experiment can teach the next one.
Structured lessons and linked source material let future teams reuse what was learned instead of restarting from folklore.
THE CURRENT COLLABORATION SURFACE
Different architectures. One evolving record.
Recent ONUMA / BIMStorm work has brought together building graphs, owner needs, fixed-asset lifecycle, connection architecture, governance and execution boundaries. Yong's role in the public record has been to help keep that collaboration visible and navigable while each participant's work remains independently attributable.
Important boundary: this showroom does not claim that Yong Ku Kim or ONUMA adopts TA-14. It documents public work and direct collaboration, preserving the distinction between ONUMA's architecture, Yong's contributions, and TA-14's independently governed work.
PUBLIC WORK SURFACE
Follow the artifacts, not just the biography.
The strongest way to understand this work is to inspect the surfaces themselves.
External links open the underlying public record so readers can inspect the source material directly.
YONG KU KIM
If the conversation disappears, the architecture becomes folklore.
If the artifact survives, other people can inspect it. That continuity — from collaborative BIM to today's live building-information experiments — is the story this showroom is designed to make visible.