Integrating Building Information Models and Building Operation Information Exchange Systems in a Decision Support Framework for Facilities Management

摘要

The Higher Education Institutions' (HEI) asset portfolio include a diverse range of buildings with different characteristics, economic life, rehabilitation and maintenance costs, and mission criticality. All such information is to be integrated in support of a rational and highly informed decision-making process within a resource-constrained environment in the context of facilities management (FM). This process needs to build upon accurate, reliable, and timely information about various building systems, components, and component elements of the individual buildings-which comes from a variety of sources. Delivering information in a segregated manner, traditional FM tools fall short in providing requirements effectively. Building information models (BIM), capable of capturing and integrating such large information databases, has recently been recognized as a compelling tool for project life-cycle analysis. This study is the first phase of a series of research on a BIM-intensive information management framework to support FM decision-making in HEIs. Four main aspects of building FM are investigated as inputs to the framework; institutions' asset portfolio. FM practice, FM information requirements, and employed information technology (IT) tools. Information requirements are classified into four main categories: attributes of the physical facility, operation and maintenance (O&M) data, institutional factors, and decision alternatives. This information can be captured, stored, retrieved or exchanged in multiple software packages by integrating BIMs and building operation information exchange systems within the FM framework.