BIM for facilities information management

Abstract

Successful adoption of Building Information Management (BIM) during design and construction phases is recurrent, and the benefits achieved through such adaptation had been encouraged to extend BIM in to other phases of construction including facilities management. However, a limited application of BIM in construction facilities management is noted. This paper reveals the potential use of BIM in FM phase, by giving more priority on ‘value of information’. The paper is based on a detailed literature review. The first section reveals the application of BIM in AEC/FM environments and second section discusses the industry standards and guidelines behind BIM in FM. The findings of the literature review explain that the key technological features attached to BIM drive for its wide application, however most of these features are tailored to design and construction tasks rather helping in FM tasks. A non-realisation of value of information is identified as a key issue for limited adoption of BIM in FIM. Therefore, the paper recommends to identify the value of BIM in its complete sense (information, technology and pocess) to understand the FM information requirement and technical developments that is necessary for specific FM needs.