Aligning BIM with FM: streamlining the process for future projects

Abstract

A study performed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA in 2004 found that owners account for approximately $10.6 billion of the $15.8 billion total inadequate interoperability costs of U.S. capital facility projects in 2002. Because of these inefficiency costs, it becomes vital that information produced during the design and construction phases of a project be transferred into operations with maximum leverage to the end users. However, very few owners have defined these informational needs or developed an integration strategy into existing maintenance management systems. To increase operational efficiency, an organization must first develop an understanding of their operating systems, as well as identify how Building Information Modeling (BIM) will add value to their daily tasks.The Pennsylvania State University (PSU) has a unique opportunity to diversely implement BIM processes because not only does the University act as an owner, but also as designer and construction manager on the majority of projects. The struggle that PSU faces is one that is unique only to owners with a large, existing, multifaceted building inventory. This paper outlines the current initiative by the Office of Physical Plant (OPP), the asset manager at PSU, to develop an information exchange framework between BIM and FM applications to be used internally. As a result of this research, PSU has been able to define owner operational requirements for future projects and develop a flexible integration framework to support additional BIM tasks and information exchanges.

Supporting Facility Management Processes through End-Users’ Integration and Coordinated BIM-GIS Technologies

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Application of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the Health Monitoring and Maintenance Process: A Systematic Review

“…Current research attitudes show increasing the continuous interest in Facility maintenance management (FMM) with BIM which covers over 65% of FM costs. Comprehensive studies were conducted in this area as using BIM with location-aware Augmented Reality (AR) to provide interaction among users and facilities, using Product-Service System (PSS) components in BIM models for managing equipment, combining BIM and IoT for lifecycle FMM, asset managements for improving the information processing, managing rapid-transit facilities such as subways and water treatment plants [ 69 , 76 , 77 , 78 , 79 , 80 , 81 , 82 , 83 , 84 , 85 ]. The remaining articles in this area will be considered in detail including BIM for monitoring subways, bridges, and other facilities.…”

Automatic Generation of COBIE Data from Revit

“…They showed a technical way to utilized BIM into the practical projects. Kasprzak and Dubler (2012), Lucas (2012), and Becerik-Gerber et al (2012) studied BIM frameworks or BIM data handling to support facility management (FM). Lucas applied BIM framework particularly to the FM of health care facility.…”