
Felix Girard contributed to the iTwin/bis-schemas repository by designing and evolving complex civil engineering data models, focusing on schema development for features such as parcel management, pedestrian infrastructure, and parking layouts. He applied skills in data modeling, schema design, and release management to deliver robust, versioned schemas that improved interoperability and data quality across OpenSite and CivilPhysical modules. Using technologies like XML, SQL, and C#, Felix implemented schema extensions, property deprecations, and naming consistency updates, ensuring traceable, governance-ready releases. His work addressed real-world requirements for urban planning and civil engineering, resulting in maintainable, future-proof backend data contracts.
March 2026 (2026-03) performance summary for iTwin/bis-schemas. Key feature delivered: OpenSite Schema — Central Parking Property, enabling enhanced layout options for central parking areas and strengthening the schema’s ability to model parking infrastructure. This work advances interoperability and reduces the need for client-side customization across BIM workflows. Commit: d1390f72a0570ea11fd9975d9f38b3dc58db1886 (Add do central parking property (#673)).
March 2026 (2026-03) performance summary for iTwin/bis-schemas. Key feature delivered: OpenSite Schema — Central Parking Property, enabling enhanced layout options for central parking areas and strengthening the schema’s ability to model parking infrastructure. This work advances interoperability and reduces the need for client-side customization across BIM workflows. Commit: d1390f72a0570ea11fd9975d9f38b3dc58db1886 (Add do central parking property (#673)).
February 2026 focused on delivering high-value schema features and preparing release readiness for OpenSite/Open-Layer data. Delivered two major schema enhancements in iTwin/bis-schemas, enabling safer, data-rich urban planning workflows and interoperability across OpenSite-related modules.
February 2026 focused on delivering high-value schema features and preparing release readiness for OpenSite/Open-Layer data. Delivered two major schema enhancements in iTwin/bis-schemas, enabling safer, data-rich urban planning workflows and interoperability across OpenSite-related modules.
In October 2025, focused on expanding civil units data modeling capabilities in iTwin/bis-schemas by delivering governance-ready schemas and improvements. Release 10 introduces 14 new civilUnits schemas, updates to existing schemas, naming convention fixes, and approval statuses to enhance structure, usability, and release governance. The work improves data model coverage for civil engineering, reduces confusion for downstream applications, and supports faster adoption and interoperability.
In October 2025, focused on expanding civil units data modeling capabilities in iTwin/bis-schemas by delivering governance-ready schemas and improvements. Release 10 introduces 14 new civilUnits schemas, updates to existing schemas, naming convention fixes, and approval statuses to enhance structure, usability, and release governance. The work improves data model coverage for civil engineering, reduces confusion for downstream applications, and supports faster adoption and interoperability.
Month: 2025-09 — iTwin/bis-schemas delivered key features for data quality and parcel management, alongside stable maintenance releases. The work emphasizes business value through data-entry efficiency, consistent schemas, and cross-component parcel representation.
Month: 2025-09 — iTwin/bis-schemas delivered key features for data quality and parcel management, alongside stable maintenance releases. The work emphasizes business value through data-entry efficiency, consistent schemas, and cross-component parcel representation.
Monthly work summary for 2025-08 focusing on iTwin/bis-schemas. Highlights include delivery of OpenSite+ polymorphic classification and relationship enhancements, schema cleanup by deprecating curb height, and OpenSite release management with WIP bump and subsequent schema releases. This month emphasized delivering robust data modeling capabilities, improving relationship semantics, simplifying schemas, and tightening the release process to accelerate downstream adoption across OpenSite-related workflows.
Monthly work summary for 2025-08 focusing on iTwin/bis-schemas. Highlights include delivery of OpenSite+ polymorphic classification and relationship enhancements, schema cleanup by deprecating curb height, and OpenSite release management with WIP bump and subsequent schema releases. This month emphasized delivering robust data modeling capabilities, improving relationship semantics, simplifying schemas, and tightening the release process to accelerate downstream adoption across OpenSite-related workflows.
July 2025 — iTwin/bis-schemas: Delivered three key schema changes and release packaging that improve stability, clarity, and downstream validation. Key features delivered: 1) Release packaging and version bump for ClassificationSystems 01.00.04 (commit be277ccc0bc95627a8a134da5bc90457344acd4c), 2) Schema naming consistency update for sidewalk group reflecting new naming (commit 2459339aab61a0ded6d07a23d4ffda26071aab8f), 3) PadArea parkingAllowed field addition to indicate parking permissions (commit ff9a5e6ac035b4fd8fd59460d5907c7377768ac5). No major bugs fixed this month; focus was on feature-driven schema evolution and release readiness. Impact: enhances client integration reliability, avoids naming drift, and enables parking rules enforcement in downstream systems. Technologies/skills demonstrated: schema evolution, release management, naming conventions, and strong commit-based traceability.
July 2025 — iTwin/bis-schemas: Delivered three key schema changes and release packaging that improve stability, clarity, and downstream validation. Key features delivered: 1) Release packaging and version bump for ClassificationSystems 01.00.04 (commit be277ccc0bc95627a8a134da5bc90457344acd4c), 2) Schema naming consistency update for sidewalk group reflecting new naming (commit 2459339aab61a0ded6d07a23d4ffda26071aab8f), 3) PadArea parkingAllowed field addition to indicate parking permissions (commit ff9a5e6ac035b4fd8fd59460d5907c7377768ac5). No major bugs fixed this month; focus was on feature-driven schema evolution and release readiness. Impact: enhances client integration reliability, avoids naming drift, and enables parking rules enforcement in downstream systems. Technologies/skills demonstrated: schema evolution, release management, naming conventions, and strong commit-based traceability.
June 2025: iTwin/bis-schemas monthly summary focusing on business value and technical accomplishments. Highlights include a new CivilPhysical Retaining Wall type, schema versioning releases, and controlled changes in OpenSite with rollback to preserve stability. These efforts deliver improved data modeling, interoperability, and reliable release management across CivilPhysical and OpenSite schemas.
June 2025: iTwin/bis-schemas monthly summary focusing on business value and technical accomplishments. Highlights include a new CivilPhysical Retaining Wall type, schema versioning releases, and controlled changes in OpenSite with rollback to preserve stability. These efforts deliver improved data modeling, interoperability, and reliable release management across CivilPhysical and OpenSite schemas.
Month: 2025-05 — Delivered schema evolution in iTwin/bis-schemas to enhance geometry definitions and prepare for future features. Key features delivered include deprecating the DoGrade property in GradingArea and adding a fixedSlope property to ShapedArea and GradingArea. These changes improve schema expressiveness, validation accuracy, and downstream interoperability, while reducing technical debt. Commits illustrating the work: 0a94febd8722b0f999c9fc1252468da712dd92c1; 3c1dc713ea3da28a72c4c42c974a2df8a5e8eb46. Impact: better data contracts, easier migration paths for clients, and a foundation for future geometry enhancements.
Month: 2025-05 — Delivered schema evolution in iTwin/bis-schemas to enhance geometry definitions and prepare for future features. Key features delivered include deprecating the DoGrade property in GradingArea and adding a fixedSlope property to ShapedArea and GradingArea. These changes improve schema expressiveness, validation accuracy, and downstream interoperability, while reducing technical debt. Commits illustrating the work: 0a94febd8722b0f999c9fc1252468da712dd92c1; 3c1dc713ea3da28a72c4c42c974a2df8a5e8eb46. Impact: better data contracts, easier migration paths for clients, and a foundation for future geometry enhancements.
April 2025 monthly summary for iTwin/bis-schemas focused on delivering a substantial OpenSiteDraft enhancement and its release. Delivered a draft schema extension by adding a LineSegment type to OpenSiteDraft, enabling richer geometric data modeling. This was released as OpenSiteDraft 01.00.01 with FieldTesting usage and an updated SHA1 hash to reflect changes. The work was driven by two commits that added the schema change and completed the release process.
April 2025 monthly summary for iTwin/bis-schemas focused on delivering a substantial OpenSiteDraft enhancement and its release. Delivered a draft schema extension by adding a LineSegment type to OpenSiteDraft, enabling richer geometric data modeling. This was released as OpenSiteDraft 01.00.01 with FieldTesting usage and an updated SHA1 hash to reflect changes. The work was driven by two commits that added the schema change and completed the release process.

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