Integrating BIM into facility management operations

International Conference on Structural and Civil Engineering Research

June 06-07, 2019 | Paris, France

Mojtaba Valinejadshoubi, Azin Shakibabarough and Ashutosh Bagchi

Concordia University, Canada

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: JET

Abstract

Facilities such as residential buildings, office buildings and hospitals house has large density of occupants. Therefore, a lowcost facility management program (FMP) should be used to provide a satisfactory built environment for these occupants. Facility management (FM) has been recently used in building projects as a critical task. It has been effective in reducing operation and maintenance cost of these facilities. Issues of information integration and visualization capabilities are critical for reducing the complexity and cost of FM. Building information modeling (BIM) can be used as a strong visual modeling tool and database in FM. The main objective of this study is to examine the applicability of BIM in the FM process during a building�s operational phase. For this purpose, a seven-storey office building is modeled Autodesk Revit software. Authors integrated the cloud-based environment using a visual programming tool, Dynamo, for the purpose of having a real-time cloud-based communication between the facility managers and the participants involved in the project. An appropriate and effective integrated data source and visual model such as BIM can reduce a building�s operational and maintenance costs by managing the building life cycle properly.

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