Future Smart Facilities: State-of-the-Art BIM-Enabled Facility Management

Digital Twin and CyberGIS for Improving Connectivity and Measuring the Impact of Infrastructure Construction Planning in Smart Cities

“…Adopting this categorization, the useful technologies for smart cities are (i) network and office work technologies as highly penetrated information technologies (IT) and information and communication technologies (ICT) influencing human productivity, e-commerce, urban services [37], e-government [45], agriculture, and e-banking in smart cities. Recently, many communication technologies have arisen, such as social media [46], Skype, Teams, and Zooms which are known to be useful for working from home or working remotely which are critical for smarter cities; (ii) design technologies such as Building Information Modelling (BIM) [11,47], Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and CyberGIS [18,48]; (iii) sensing technologies such as wearable sensors [49], RFID [50,51], IoT sensors, real time locating systems (RTLS) [52], laser scanners [22], GPS, Radar, cameras for smart transportation, smart parking, and smart construction (job-site management, tracking materials, site management, physical progress monitoring, and productivity, safety, emission [53,54], security, and remote controlling devices and diagnostic systems attached or imbedded in heavy equipment such as Grader or Crane); (iv) production technologies such as 3D Printing [55,56]; and (v) virtual technologies such as mixed reality and digital twin.…”

Implementation of Facility Management for Port Infrastructure through the Use of UAVs, Photogrammetry and BIM

“…The information collected is recorded in cadastres or inventory sheets, which generally include graphic references or indications associated with existing plans to reference the location of the elements and to facilitate the location of the damage [ 23 ]. In many cases, this information is digitized, which facilitates access to existing documentation; however, in this process, digitalization of the cards induces errors [ 24 ]. This delay accounts for the shortcomings of traditional methods based on physical or digital records that merely have an orderly record, missing the potential of new methodologies and technologies to manage and visualize the information and documentation collected [ 25 ].…”

Identifying Maturity Dimensions for Smart Maintenance Management of Constructed Assets: A Multiple Case Study

“…In designing case study research, a fundamental question is how many cases should be studied and which cases should be selected. While Yin (2014) and Eisenhardt (1989Eisenhardt ( , 1991 suggest that more cases lead to better theories, Flyvbjerg (2006), Dubois and Gadde (2002, 2017, Chen (2015), and Järvensivu and Törnroos (2010) point out the value of deep insights and theories that can be obtained from a single in-depth case study. The discussion about the number of cases is related to their generalizability or external validity, i.e., the way findings can be generalized beyond the case(s) that first generated the findings.…”

“…In this CFM context, maintenance managers are confronted with assets that are digitalized during design, construction, maintenance, or operation. The combined use of sensor technology, radio frequency identification (RFID), and distributed ledger technologies, can connect physical assets to the internet of things (IoT), creating "smart facilities" (Taneja et al 2011;Pishdad-Bozorgi 2017). However, for CFM organizations that have outsourced maintenance execution to contractors, the utilization of digital data is not all plain sailing, because of the networked position of maintenance internally, as well as externally.…”