Survey: Common Knowledge in BIM for Facility Maintenance
Publication: Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 30, Issue 3
Abstract
As building information modeling (BIM) has become more widely adopted by the architecture, engineering, construction and operations (AECO) industry, its undeveloped potential for supporting facility management (FM) has become more apparent. In order to fully release the power of BIM tools, the first step is to understand and clarify what the requirements of the facility management phase are for operations and maintenance activities. This paper proposes a process for knowledge accumulation and sharing for BIM-FM through the project life cycle. In order to collect the initial knowledge for the knowledge database, a survey questionnaire was developed and administered to collect perspectives from industry practitioners to understand existing facility management requirements and the types of maintainability problems that frequently occur that have the potential to be solved early on in the design phase. The survey results indicated that maintainability issues should be taken into consideration during the facility design phase. The perceived areas determined by the survey that need maintainability consideration in the design phase would be a starting point for a BIM-FM knowledge sharing database.
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Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 30 • Issue 3 • June 2016
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Received: Jan 22, 2015
Accepted: Mar 19, 2015
Published online: May 27, 2015
Discussion open until: Oct 27, 2015
Published in print: Jun 1, 2016
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