BIM Guidelines Inform Facilities Management Databases:  A Case Study over Time

Kensek, Karen

doi:10.3390/buildings5030899

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“…BIM promises a solution to the digital representation of the building facility during the design phase and later during operation [24]. Compared to the conventional two-dimensional drawings, the digital building model that emerges in BIM contains all the relevant information about materials and components with numerous life-cycle-related data, such as material properties, geographic information, quantities, function, life, composition, and costs [25]. In addition, the information can be expanded as required to represent the specific building requirements.…”

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Development of a BIM-Based Web Tool as a Material and Component Bank for a Sustainable Construction Industry

Jayasinghe

Waldmann

2020

Sustainability

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The construction industry consumes an enormous amount of global resources and produces more waste than any other sector. The need to move toward sustainable development in construction requires significant changes in construction and demolition (C&D) waste management. The estimation of waste, recycling materials and reusable components could be vital in waste management, achieving huge efficiency in the construction industry. Moreover, a typical building comprises of an extensive amount of materials and components with various characteristics. This study proposes a Building Information Modelling (BIM)-based system to allow the circular economy by storing information of the materials and components of buildings and by effectively managing the recycling of materials and reuse of components. A tool which serves as a Material and Component (M&C) bank was developed with PHP and MYSQL by making use of a web browser able to extract the materials and component information of a building through the BIM model. This information is vital for several uses such as quantification of C&D waste and assessing for the design for deconstruction. It can also be used to obtain the information of the reusable condition of the components and instructions for the reconstruction.Sustainability 2020, 12, 1766 2 of 15 considered at the design phase. If designed properly, the whole building or each component of the building may be usable for similar applications at the end of a first service life. Design for Deconstruction (DfD) is closely linked with the research on reducing, reuse, and recycling of building materials. DfD is defined as the design of structures to facilitate future change, revitalization, and removal for recovery of components and materials for reuse. Thus, DfD will increase the useful life of components of a structure by making them available as material stocks for the future. However, failure to identify components in advance and the condition of the components after disassembling, as well as the certification of the remaining performance of the components, are main barriers to implement this process. Thus, it is necessary to keep the records of all information related to the design, materials, and construction of the structure as well as of the ageing process and possible incidents which may occur during the life span of a building.The second category of research includes developing tools for C&D waste management [16,17]. Poon et al. [18] introduced a method called 'Waste Index' to estimate the waste generation from demolition. It was defined as the quantity of construction waste generated per Gross Floor Area (GFA). Jalali [19] introduced the 'Component Index' to estimate the amount of waste based on the type of components in a building. The main drawbacks of those methods are that they cannot separately identify the building materials used for each building and they are difficult to implement in practice. The material stocks and flow approach was suggested by Cochran and Townsend [20] to estimate the waste based on the...

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Development of a BIM-Based Web Tool as a Material and Component Bank for a Sustainable Construction Industry

Jayasinghe

Waldmann

2020

Sustainability

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“…In general, the development of BIM procedures to support FM could lead to different sets of tools, e.g., to simply exchange data with third party plugin to populate spreadsheets or to directly be connected with a CAFM software. No matter the procedure, this kind of connection is important for acquiring spatial information [2].…”

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Leveraging BIM for digital built environment asset management

Cecconi

Maltese

Dejaco

2017

Innov. Infrastruct. Solut.

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A National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) study shows that all stakeholders in the capital facilities industry waste a huge amount of money looking for, validating, and/or recreating facility information that should be readily available. The total cost of these activities within the capital facilities industries in the United States was conservatively estimated at $15.8 billion in 2002, with two-thirds of that cost occurring during the facilities' operations and maintenance phase. This is confirmed by the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) Maintenance Survey in 2009, which states that the loss of information generates an added cost of 12.4% of total annual mean O&M costs. Nowadays, standards and specifications have been developed about availability, integrity, and transfer of data and information during the operational phase of an asset life. PAS 1192-3, among these, suggests the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) models to store and access facility information, but the turning point is the ability to provide different stakeholders with different data, which should be targeted to them, easily accessible, readable, and updatable (and up to date). This research started with the collection of asset managers' needs and then the definition of new procedures for assets and facility management in a BIM-based workflow focusing on how to allow users to access, use, and update facility data stored in a BIM model without a BIM authoring tool. Examples are shown for: (1) management of rooms occupancy; (2) management of mechanical equipment status; (3) qualitative condition assessment of buildings; and (4) appraisal of the service life of building components and systems according to ISO 15686-8. These four tools allow to compute and control some key indicators of the asset, with also the possibility to compare them inside a portfolio. This paper presents the four tools, paying also attention to the workflows to be followed and to the different data needs of the stakeholders involved.

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“…To that end, a common format has been developed to transmit information necessary for facilities management [4]. In a case study conducted over time, the use of BIM data for facilities management using numerous software applications at a university was examined [5], and a system that displays BIM data generated from BIM software on a website was developed [6]. Recently, research aimed at utilizing BIM in existing buildings has increased.…”

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confidence: 99%