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

The BIM hero's journey

"Far far away i saw something shimmering". I want to tell you a story. A story of a hero. Our hero is a built asset owner and he is about to embark upon a BIM journey. The story is about the trials and tribulations our BIM hero have to go… 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

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