TY - GEN
T1 - The Need for Representing Facility Information with Customized LOD for Specific FM Tasks
AU - Dias, Priscila
AU - Ergan, Semiha
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The usage of building information models (BIMs) is well established within the architectural, construction and engineering industry to improve design, engineering and construction processes and exchange project information. BIMs proved to be beneficial by enabling off-site fabrication, reduction (even elimination) of change orders and facilitating access and exchange of digital information beyond the construction phase. This resulted in exploring the potential of utilizing BIMs for assisting facilities management (FM) tasks on a daily basis. Although there are mechanisms (e.g., COBie) to enable delivery of design information to the FM phase, the challenge is the need for customized facility information for operators when they perform FM tasks such as space management, and maintenance. Previous studies showed that BIMs should be customized for the requirements of an FM task at hand. Towards that vision to automatically customize BIMs for an FM task, the objective of the study is to identify the facilities operators' requirements on as-built BIM, with a focus on the maintenance of HVAC systems. The study builds on the level of development (LOD) and industry foundation classes (IFC) efforts to depict the level of detail of the geometric, spatial and semantic facility information during requirements elicitation phase with facility operators. The paper reports the initial findings of the requirements and LOD of the information for HVAC system maintenance.
AB - The usage of building information models (BIMs) is well established within the architectural, construction and engineering industry to improve design, engineering and construction processes and exchange project information. BIMs proved to be beneficial by enabling off-site fabrication, reduction (even elimination) of change orders and facilitating access and exchange of digital information beyond the construction phase. This resulted in exploring the potential of utilizing BIMs for assisting facilities management (FM) tasks on a daily basis. Although there are mechanisms (e.g., COBie) to enable delivery of design information to the FM phase, the challenge is the need for customized facility information for operators when they perform FM tasks such as space management, and maintenance. Previous studies showed that BIMs should be customized for the requirements of an FM task at hand. Towards that vision to automatically customize BIMs for an FM task, the objective of the study is to identify the facilities operators' requirements on as-built BIM, with a focus on the maintenance of HVAC systems. The study builds on the level of development (LOD) and industry foundation classes (IFC) efforts to depict the level of detail of the geometric, spatial and semantic facility information during requirements elicitation phase with facility operators. The paper reports the initial findings of the requirements and LOD of the information for HVAC system maintenance.
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U2 - 10.1061/9780784479827.255
DO - 10.1061/9780784479827.255
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84976361937
T3 - Construction Research Congress 2016: Old and New Construction Technologies Converge in Historic San Juan - Proceedings of the 2016 Construction Research Congress, CRC 2016
SP - 2563
EP - 2572
BT - Construction Research Congress 2016
A2 - Perdomo-Rivera, Jose L.
A2 - Lopez del Puerto, Carla
A2 - Gonzalez-Quevedo, Antonio
A2 - Maldonado-Fortunet, Francisco
A2 - Molina-Bas, Omar I.
PB - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
T2 - Construction Research Congress 2016: Old and New Construction Technologies Converge in Historic San Juan, CRC 2016
Y2 - 31 May 2016 through 2 June 2016
ER -