BIM-boost

As agreed a while ago, today I made a rather concise presentation as part of WSP consulting Group's BIM-boost event held at Visualisation Center in Norrköping. The first part was a brief introduction of Building Information Modeling (BIM), BIM repositories, and the universal concept of open BIM. After the break, definitions and categories of activities within the facility management and operation phase of building were reviewed. Finally, implications, impediments, and empirical examples of informed facility management and operation routines were briefly presented.

As far as I knew, other speakers were more focused either on the status quo of implementation of BIM in the construction market, or detailed instructions on use of specific software. I tried to take a different approach by departing from the literature available on building data modeling and life-cycle perspective on building data management. Yet, each section was rounded up with introducing capabilities of several prominent commercialized solutions in each area. Definitions and common applications of BIM, aggregate data models, BIM repositories, introduction of buildingSMART, IFC (Industry Foundation Classes), facility operations and maintenance, Computerized Maintenance and Management Systems (CMMS), Building Condition Index (BCI) and Key Performance Indicators (KPI), COBie (Construction Operations information exchange), and FM:BIM:BAS loosely coupled constellations were the minor topics covered in my lecture.

Visualisation Center in Norrköping