Facility management no building information modelling

• Main Author: Fuzil, Tomás Silva Caroço Gonçalves
• Publication Date: 2017
• Format: Master thesis
• Language: eng
• Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Download full: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/12468
• topic: Building information modelling; Modelagem de informações de construção; BIM; Facility management; Gestão de Instalações; FM; Construction operations building information exchange; Troca de informações de edifícios de operações de construção; COBie

Traditionally it is considered that it is in the construction phase that the greatest expense occurs in the entire construction process. However, this idea has been altered by life-cycle costing studies, where the impact of cost of operation and management of facilities and infrastructures becomes increasingly evident. In this sense, there is Facility Management, which can be described as the integration of processes within an organization to maintain and develop services that support and improve the effectiveness of primary activities, and has been used to improve the management of support activities to the main activity of organizations. In recent years the construction sector has been characterized by a very significant technological evolution. The Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an example of this technological evolution, which presupposes a new paradigm in the way the processes of information exchange between the various actors in the life cycle of the infrastructures are treated. In this dissertation, Facility Management and BIM are described for framing and, at a later stage, a proposal of connection between both is presented, taking full advantage of its functionalities. Finally, a practical application is presented in a BIM model and in the COBie specification, in order to apply the concept of Facility Management based on the information placed in the model. This combination of concepts allows for streamlining of processes and greater stakeholder responsibility in the design phase. From the work developed, it is concluded that both Facility Management and BIM are concepts that could become, in the near future, fundamental in the life cycle of an infrastructure, emphasizing that they are concepts that still have little implementation of form at national level. In fact, there is little knowledge in the areas addressed in the present work and it is necessary to change habits when implementing these technologies, so that their integration streamlines processes, reduces costs, increases the quality of information provided, facilitating the work of all stakeholders throughout the cycle of an infrastructure.