Supply Chain Information Management - Laying the foundation for lifecycle BIM

To be effective the building information supply chain needs standard units of delivery handled by efficient transportation channels As a follow up to our previous blog post on commissioning Atul Kumar gave the following suggestion “... if you are looking for a topic to write your next blog then please use… Read more

Facilities Management is going digital

The world of Facilities Management (FM) is going digital - again. The last time we digitised it was mostly about generating, storing and sharing digital versions of our traditional documents and drawings. It was also about putting facility data into in-house databases. It was a driver of incremental efficiencies and… Read more

BIM for FM - Closer than yesterday

In his great article on the thinkBIM blog Paul Wilkinson make the case that BIM for FM is “still not quite there” despite there having been a big coordinated effort the last years and many standards, tools and guides have been made available. The main telltale signal for not having… Read more

BIM and CAFM - best friends forever?

Operational efficiencies is supposed to be the holy grail of BIM. It is still early days however. In the recent NBS BIM survey only 16% of the respondents said that models in their project were handed over. In this article we will look at how CAFM can play a part… Read more

Asset Information Model, PAS 1192-3 and the ISO road ahead

ready, fire AIM *) More and more projects are using BIM to support design and construction. More and more processes are going digital in the AEC industry. New tools and open standards are key enablers. Governments and businesses alike are touting the benefits of BIM across the board. It is assumed… Read more

BIM Levels and Asset Information Management

BIM (modelling) is the process of generating and managing virtual intelligent representations of buildings-to-be or buildings-as-operated. The BIMs (models) needs to be exchanged, networked or otherwise integrated to support decision making in the AECO processes. For BIM to realize its full potential both the processes and the tools of the… Read more