6D BIM Facilities Management
Facility management is an important part of an AEC project. It is implemented once the construction phase is over.
Facility management involves considerations for occupant comfort, energy efficiency, space management, maintenance and operations within the built environment.
Facility manager ensures that the built environment performs efficiently and functions as required.
Benefits of BIM for Facility Management:
Facility management is considered to be a non-core activity and is often outsourced. Conventionally, facility managers were provided with CAD drawings, drafts or as built drawings to plan their FM strategies.
However, as BIM is increasingly implemented in construction projects, facility managers are equipped with building information models.
Facility manager ensures that the built environment performs efficiently and functions as required.
Benefits of BIM for Facility Management:
- BIM is integrated with computer aided maintenance management system to develop a robust maintenance plan. It is used to improvise and create a robust O&M tracking tool.
- Spatial data is fed into BIM to improve space management within a facility.
- Facility managers effectively use building information models to identify the conflicts due to changing space requirements.
- BIM is crucial in helping facility managers achieve the set energy efficiency goals.
- Additionally, BIM is also a useful tool for facility managers, and allows them to efficiently plan and execute any type of repair and renovation work within a facility.
Facility management is considered to be a non-core activity and is often outsourced. Conventionally, facility managers were provided with CAD drawings, drafts or as built drawings to plan their FM strategies.
However, as BIM is increasingly implemented in construction projects, facility managers are equipped with building information models.
Note: There is recent discussion that 6D BIM should represent sustainability analysis and life-cycle management be then 7D. Since there seems to be differing views we will stick to the initial view and update this page when that argument has played its role in clarifying the position.