BIM IN Facility Management (FM)?
Before tackling this information transfer process, let's address whether it should actually be BIM in FM? In other words, why not use the building information models already produced? These could contain all the plan and asset information including links to external documents and even be enhanced to store extra data such as maintenance records etc. There is potentially much to gain from this approach as it might mean the original and full building records are updated with changes, and it avoids risks of moving data from one system to another.
Before tackling this information transfer process, let's address whether it should actually be BIM in FM? In other words, why not use the building information models already produced? These could contain all the plan and asset information including links to external documents and even be enhanced to store extra data such as maintenance records etc. There is potentially much to gain from this approach as it might mean the original and full building records are updated with changes, and it avoids risks of moving data from one system to another.
However, there are also problems with this approach. The current software tools for managing the building information models (and there are usually multiple models) during the design and build stages are designed for people in those industries with their specialist skills. This does not make them suitable for facilities managers with a different set of specialist skills. Similarly, the data is not well structured as an FM system's would be for connection to external data such as room booking, human resources, health and safety etc. nor does it contain the sort of FM functions described already.
Hence, while the information from design and build is key, the tools for those stages are not yet suitable for the management stage.So we needprocesses for moving information from BIM to FM.
BIM TO Facility Management (FM)
Firstly, let's set ourselves the goal to improve the typical information transfer from the design and construction systems to our facilities management system. Our goal should be to deliver information
Firstly, let's set ourselves the goal to improve the typical information transfer from the design and construction systems to our facilities management system. Our goal should be to deliver information
= which is more complete,
= is electronic rather than paper based,
= whichprovides for easy transfer from our BIM systems to our FM systems.
= is electronic rather than paper based,
= whichprovides for easy transfer from our BIM systems to our FM systems.
Our expectation should be to save time and save money as well as to end up with a better facilities management operation from the start and for the whole life of the asset.
In our experience there are three ways in which this can be achieved, but the starting point is an assumption that the main contractor has all the relevant information to transfer - as would normally be the expectation. This includes the building models, the handover/verification information and the equipment information including manuals, maintenance schedules etc. These may or may not have been combined into a single integrated package.
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