FM product selection, procurement and delivery - going digital with BIM

A lot of time is spent by Facilities Management staff making product selection and procurement decisions. Where can I find a replacement part for the broken component? Do they even make them anymore? Should I replace a spare part or change the whole product. What quantities should I order? In… 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 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

Model checking for BIM FM - How we check your models

"Our model checking wizard take you through the items to inspect..." In this article we will share how we check BIM models pre-handover to evaluate their suitability for operations use. We will try to answer the question “are these project information models on their way to becoming a good “Asset… Read more

Bim for facility managers and owners - Space management

This week we will look at how BIM fits in with the traditional FM process space management. Managing space is an important part of facility management. Space needs and space usage are usually dynamic based on the ever changing needs of the organizations. In addition to keeping track of the… Read more

BIM for facility managers and owners - mobile data collection

This week in our series on BIM for facility managers and owners we will cover mobile data collection. We will cover both planned building surveys and ad-hoc snag-reporting. Mobile data collection is an important activity tightly integrated with many lifecycle BIM processes - maintenance planning, work order management and asset… Read more

BIM for facility managers and owners - Construction handover

Following our introduction to BIM for facility managers and owners we will start a series of posts to discuss common processes that make up "lifecycle BIM". We will keep our focus on the owner and facility manager. Our first process is construction handover. Why contruction handover is important for lifecycle… Read more

BIM for facility managers and owners - an introduction

BIM is a big buzzword in the AEC industry. Below is a graph showing interest in the term steadily increasing the last 10 years. (source: Google Trends) What is BIM? According to wikipedia, the acronym BIM can mean two different but highly related things. Building information modelling (BIM) is a… Read more