The construction industry lacks a comprehensive and holistic way of utilising Building Information Modelling (BIM) throughout a building's life-cycle, where the transition to Asset Management (AM) and Facility Management (FM) is particularly lacking. Enterprise BIM (EBIM) is an emerging, unexplored, holistic organisational concept that is designed to support and optimise business management throughout the entire life-cycles of buildings and infrastructure. However, current understanding and implementation of EBIM is rare. To fix this gap in knowledge, this paper defines the EBIM concept and assesses associated perspectives from research and practice in order to integrate BIM more strongly into the enterprise's core processes and other needs at different levels within the organisation and externally. To achieve a higher and more efficient utilisation of building data, however, EBIMs need to develop a clear life-cycle-based information management strategy, including coordination and communication between all stakeholders. The paper highlights and discusses the importance of both available and missing standards related to the effective implementation of EBIM. Several existing open standards have been identified to help strengthen the EBIM concept. The paper identifies a need to develop standards to integrate BIM and IoT (the Internet of Things) and standards that can handle both structured and unstructured data. The authors have conducted a wide-ranging review of research, practice and existing standards and considers today's potential for using EBIM, as well as discusses existing challenges and future research needs. Furthermore, the EBIM concept is contextualised by providing a case study with focus on cleaning. This study identifies a need to develop best practices in interdisciplinary collaborative projects. Such practical implementation requires integrated and standardised information and technology management and the exploitation of the available technologies in interdisciplinary interaction with those involved in the various processes and the flow of information throughout the life-cycle.
Enterprise BIM aims to optimise business management and asset management throughout the life-cycle of buildings and infrastructures. This follow-up study of the Enterprise BIM concept analyses the potential for international standardisation, mainly focusing on the contribution of the ISO 19650 standard series to further development. The study explores how key ISO 19650 concepts related to different types of information requirements, levels of information need, and common data environments can help strengthen Enterprise BIM. As such, the paper presents an in-depth analysis of how the ISO 19650 series and several adjacent standards can provide a further means of facilitating information management within the Enterprise BIM concept. The study uses a customised Zachman framework by adding the necessary perspectives from ISO 19650 and Enterprise BIM. The paper adds increased knowledge related to understanding the standard series parts 1, 2 and 3 and showing how they can be implemented in an enterprise structure. Based on the ISO 19650 framework, the study emphasises the importance of linking the information requirements to the various information needs of multiple end-users. At the same time, the paper provides new knowledge by showing that the information flow in the operational phase is far more nuanced than in the delivery phase, suggesting that information management must be considered in a completely different light from what previous research shows.
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