Utilizing Six Sigma to develop standard attributes for a Safety for Facilities Management (SFFM) framework

Wetzel, Eric M.; Thabet, Walid

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2016.07.010

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“…However, this inherent decision making ability is rarely expanded into other operational areas such as health and safety (H&S) monitoring during a building's occupancy and use (Wetzel and Thabet, 2016). This research builds upon an earlier prototype entitled the Confined Spaces Safety Monitoring System (CoSMoS) (c.f.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Asset management (AM) in particular can reap many concomitant benefits associated with digitization, including optimisation of building performance (Azhar, 2011), rapid accessibility and retrieval of asset data, streamlined maintenance management (Becerik-Gerber et al , 2011) and efficient work order execution (Kassem et al , 2015). These benefits have been achieved predominantly via the following four fundamental technologies: networked sensors that automate data capture on building usage to generate business intelligence capital (Park and Brilakis, 2016); BIM that generates rich semantic and geometric data/information for an integrated design team to collaboratively work upon throughout a building’s whole life cycle (Ciribini et al , 2017; Wetzel and Thabet, 2016; Mitchell, 2017; Pärn and Edwards, 2017a); big data analysis of voluminous real-time data to enable designers to optimise resultant decisions and afford greater whole lifecycle value for built assets (Pärn et al , 2018); and computational intelligence to generate systematic and deterministic prediction and/or classification of patterns, trends and associations in design data, building performance and/or human behaviour for improved decision making for example, failure mode diagnostics (). …”

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confidence: 99%

“…BIM that generates rich semantic and geometric data/information for an integrated design team to collaboratively work upon throughout a building’s whole life cycle (Ciribini et al , 2017; Wetzel and Thabet, 2016; Mitchell, 2017; Pärn and Edwards, 2017a);…”

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Engineering-out hazards: digitising the management working safety in confined spaces

Pärn

Edwards

Riaz

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Purpose This paper aims to report upon the further development of a hybrid application programming interface (API) plug-in to building information modelling (BIM) entitled confined spaces safety monitoring system “CoSMoS”. Originally designed to engineer-out environmental hazards associated with working in a building’s confined spaces (during the construction phase of a building’s life-cycle), this second generation version is expanded upon to use archival records to proactively learn from data generated within a sensor network during the building’s operations and maintenance (O&M) phase of asset management (AM). Design/methodology/approach An applied research methodological approach adopted used a two-phase process. In phase one, a conceptual model was created to provide a “blueprint map” to integrate BIM, sensor-based networks and data analytics (DA) into one integral system. A literature review provided the basis for the conceptual model’s further development. In phase two, the conceptual model was transposed into the prototype’s development environment as a proof of concept using primary data accrued from a large educational building. Findings An amalgamation of BIM, historical sensor data accrued and the application of DA demonstrate that CoSMoS provides an opportunity for the facilities management (FM) team to monitor pertinent environmental conditions and human behaviour within buildings that may impact upon occupant/worker safety. Although working in confined spaces is used to demonstrate the inherent potential of CoSMoS, the system could readily be expanded to analyse sensor-based network’s historical data of other areas of building performance, maintenance and safety. Originality/value This novel prototype has automated safety applications for FM during the asset lifecycle and maintenance phase of a building’s O&M phase of AM. Future work is proposed in several key areas, namely, develop instantaneous indicators of current safety performance within a building; and develop lead indicators of future safety performance of buildings.

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Engineering-out hazards: digitising the management working safety in confined spaces

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Edwards

Riaz

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“…But Min, Morgenstern, and Marjanovic-Halburd (2016) determined that the perception of facility management only within the environment and the building is outdated and extend this way of managing of support processes, including purchasing, sale, development, quality, or activity related to the corporate finance. Wetzel and Thabet (2016) reported that facility management is a hybrid type of management discipline that combines the expertise in managing people, assets, and processes.…”

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confidence: 99%

Facility Management in the Globalized Society

Bartošová¹,

Katarina²

2018

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Facility management is the multidisciplinary kind of work that covers a wide range of various activities, responsibilities, and knowledge. Facility management provides and manages a variety of support services in order to prepare all the organisational functions, putting the accent on an integration of primary activities in strategic, tactical, and operational levels. In the final decade of the previous century, facility management industry emerged as one of the fastest growing sectors at the international level. Nowadays, the importance of the facility management is readily acknowledged in many companies worldwide, which recognises the necessity of properly managing elaborate and expensive support facilities. The tasks are multidisciplinary and cover a wide range of activities, responsibilities, and knowledge, because every aspect of an organisation may come under the competency of the facility management. The main aim of the paper is to point out the well-founded applicability of the global facility management in companies, which in order to achieve the competitive advantage correctly strengthened the corporate core business and shift the support activities into the management of a specialist in this field. The paper also covers the scope of the facility management in the international context, and also in the Slovak Republic, considering the specificities of individual countries.

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“…As such, BIM serves as a shared knowledge resource for information about a facility, forming a reliable basis for decisions during its life cycle from inception onward [2]. In addition to helping in the design stage, BIM provides decision makers with the ability to make informed decisions across the lifecycle, in the construction stage [3], the project closeout stage [4], and the facility management stage [5]. BIM has also become a platform for project management teams to collaborate [6].…”

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Employing Simulated Annealing Algorithms to Automatically Resolve MEP Clashes in Building Information Modeling Models

Hsu¹,

Wu²

2019

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC)

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Building Information Modeling (BIM) covers the whole lifecycle of a building and facilitates the coordination of activities in the design, construction, and operation stages. However, during the design stages of pre-construction, it is time-consuming for a BIM project team to resolve design clashes as they integrate models finished by individual team members into a composite master model. To effectively overcome the issue, this study proposes a computer programming system. Based on the application programming interface provided by BIM software, a simulated annealing algorithm is employed to determine the layout modifications to minimize the number of design clashes. In this paper, the mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) systems in a clean room on the first floor of an integrated circuit assembly factory are used to validate the effectiveness of the proposed system. The experimental results reveal the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed system.

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Utilizing Six Sigma to develop standard attributes for a Safety for Facilities Management (SFFM) framework

Cited by 21 publications

References 10 publications

Engineering-out hazards: digitising the management working safety in confined spaces

Engineering-out hazards: digitising the management working safety in confined spaces

Facility Management in the Globalized Society

Employing Simulated Annealing Algorithms to Automatically Resolve MEP Clashes in Building Information Modeling Models

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