Tips to Successful BIM for Facilities Management BCO-6974 Leif Granholm BIM “ambassador”

What is BIM

BIM, software, process, technology or what? ▪ ▪ ▪

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No practical consensus of what BIM is Every presenter still today includes a what is BIM section Most common perception of people in the industry is that BIM is software. Other often used: Process, Model, Populated Database describing facility

My favorite: BIM is a Technology

BIM Graphics to objects and Drawings are graphics (appearance important) geometry A Model consists of objects that may contain geometry and/or attributes (structure important)

BIM – Structured data Functional objects

Physical objects

Objects describing process • • • • •

Schedules Resources Costs Quality assurance Tasks

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Work Approvals RFI:s Submittals …

Logical objects

Abstract objects

Structured data on the Web Google Knowledge Graph

Linked Data (W3C)

Schema.org FreeBase

W3C vocabularies

openBIM definition ▪ openBIM means that BIM operations and BIM data is not tied to any specific tool, software or vendor –Freedom to choose the tools best suited for the purpose –Freedom to transfer data between tools –Freedom to develop very purpose specific tools Independent of any platform

▪ Open standard data formats (IFC, CityGML, IndoorGML, InfraGML, KML…) are used for communication and interoperability

BIM and openBIM adoption Legacy BIM

openBIM

buildingSMART BIM is about sharing

Open Structured Semantic Standard data

position on BIM

BIM for Facility Management Two high level use cases to consider: 1. Transfering data from design and construction to FM How to capture and transfer BIM data (structured, semantic data) from construction phase to form basis for FM

2. Using BIM technology for FM How to fully benefit from BIM technology also in building operation and Facility Management

Capturing the data Today still usually by documents, paper or electronic, either an visible or invisible mes For structured data transferring native models (rvt, pln, dgn, db1) also used but not recommended for several reasons: ▪IPR issues, native files contain libraries and intelligence owned by author ▪Version issues, new versions of BIM tools have problems with old versions of files, need to be regularly loaded and re-saved

Capturing the data Using Standard Structured Formats IFC the most used standard format by far. IFC is an information model that covers most aspects of construction. Covers conceptual space model, exact geometry, attributes and relationships. Too complex to use as such in FM case, why an Model View Definition COBie has been developed to facilitate FM handover

COBie Is a data format for the publication of a subset of building model information focused on delivering building information without geometry.

Only the conceptual spatial model is included. Scope is for information used for daily operations Developed by Bill East (US Army Corps of Engineers) and buildingSMART Alliance (US chapter of buildingSMART) Three alternative encodings that can be converted between with no data loss Excel sheet XML (COBie light) IFC

COBie

Excellent guide for Information Handover by NIST and FIATECH http://www.wbdg.org/pdfs/nistir_7417.pdf

Facility Management systems Existing facility management systems/software very much workflow (work order) oriented Facility information (mostly documents and models) as reference information

Need for more facility/asset oriented systems driven by availability of machine readable data (BIM, GEOspatial, Products)

Multiple views of a same building Partial models •

Owner

dRofus

Requirement model

Architect

ArchiCAD

Architectural model

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Structural engineer

Tekla Structures

Structural model

MEP designer

Nova

MEP model

Contractor

Proliance

Project plan

Parties

Tools

Partial models

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Different aspects or parts of the building Contain different objects Require different expertize Created with different tools

Same building Models must be compatible  When a model is created/modified, information from other models needs to be used

Complicating factors -

Fragmentation to many companies and models Friction in collaboration caused by contracts Changes are ubiquitous

Needs for building information exchange 2. Between the models and the environment

External information

3. From project phase to operations

Building codes, rules, regulations Infrastructure Building components and materials Sensor information People, companies, resources

Building specific information

Structure Requirements Architecture MEP Project plan Facility management Indoor maps

project start

1. Inside a project (between models)

project end

time

FM Information Architecture A layered data model to support capital facility life cycle information was shown in the Capital Facilities Information Handover Guide (CFIHG) Part 1

FM System Architecture Multi kernel approach needed for reasonable Information Management FM system Incoming CityGML

Incoming IFC Obj RDF link

Native Obj

Native facility and asset db

How to implement cross-model linking? Goals Smooth workflows Better quality Support change management Easy adoption

Conform to fragmentation Clear data ownership Native as master Utilize external data sources Familiarity to developers

Requirements Explicit linking

Vector graphics

Loose coupling

Low adoption threshold

Web Distributed interlinked documents

Distributed data mgmt

Maps Easy linking to external data

Commonly used tools

Geolocation Mobility & sensors

Managing live data and changes Information maintained in FM system native format

Incoming data sets updated during bigger changes/renovations (semi)manually Incoming public data updated by owners of data and used in original schema (multi kernel)

Using semantic data in FM Traditional use within FM systems Asset management (facilities, equipment) Space Management (occupation, rentals, safety…) Workflow management Operations Portfolio management Planning investments Reports

BIM for FM Closing the Gap

Manage Construction

Design

Planning

Assess

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Inventory

Hand-off

BIM for FM Today ▪ Space Inventories – Sizes – Locations – Classifications ▪ Asset & Equipment Inventories – Attribution – Locations – Classifications

BI

BIM for FM Today ▪ Space Management – Occupancies – Allocations – Locations ▪ Asset & Equipment Management – Location

BI BIM

BIM for FM Tomorrow ▪ Education – Visualization – Information – Accessibility ▪ Ubiquity – Accessibility – Usability – Mobility

Why semantic (BIM) data ▪ Technology development enables automatic use of data –Robots (good example ping pong playing robot) –Augmented reality taken to next step by Google Tango project –Drones used for many purposes

Augmented reality & wearable computers… Kopin Goldeni

Google Glasses use an automatic connection to the cloud to provide access to enormous amounts of information, data and applications…

Internet of Things The Internet of Things (IoT) is the interconnection of uniquely identifiable embedded computing devices within the existing Internet infrastructure.

Internet of Things Roadmap

Internet of Things Will revolutionize Facility automation and control, standards based communication and interfaces, interaction by Facility Managers and Facility users on several levels.

Indoor Navigation Is going to be a huge issue for Facility owners and managers in the near future Situation absurd and unbalanced now, outdoor navigation ubiquitous globally but indoors, nothing

ILA developing standard indoor positioning by WiFi Data supply for this is going to be a big issue, volume >100 more than outdoor navigation, hundreds of thousands of data suppliers -> standard distributed information architecture and business model needed.

Indoor Navigation

Thank You Any questions?