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BIM in the Operation of Buildings

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BIM does not only facilitate the design and construction of buildings, but also and especially the operation of these buildings. This chapter argues that the BIM-based operation of buildings can be divided into six work stages: (1) requirements management; (2) preparation for commissioning; (3) commissioning; (4) ongoing operation; (5) change of owner/operator; and (6) data acquisition for existing buildings. During these stages, a structured set of data relevant to the operation of the building(s) is constantly updated. These data sets facilitate multiple use cases occurring during the operation phase, e.g. the operation, inspection and maintenance of technical equipment. The data relevant to the operational phase can either be obtained by the handover of design and construction data or by the collection of data for existing buildings or buildings where the BIM method was not used prior to operation.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Also see Roper and Payant (2014), section six “Operations and Maintenance” for a detailed discussion of the relative share of operational and maintenance services in the life cycle of a building.

  2. 2.

    ISO (TC 59/SC 13), CEN (TC 442) and several national standardization initiatives (e.g. DIN (NA 005-01-39), VDI (2552)).

  3. 3.

    For a detailed discussion of the cooperation between operation and design/construction see Roper and Payant (2014), section five “The Design-Build Cycle”. Also see Kumar (2015), p.5 for the importance of cooperation between all groups relevant in the life cycle of a property.

  4. 4.

    So called Common Data Environment (CDE).

  5. 5.

    The issue of operator’s responsibility is ommissioned in most publications on BIM. Pramod Reddy (2012), however, makes a case for using BIM and other IT-based systems for both facility management and facility maintenance (see pp. 10–12 and pp. 35–37). Also see Teichholz (2013).

  6. 6.

    For further detail see the Guideline of Real Estate Data Exchange, published by the Society of Property Researchers, Germany (2016) and the Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate.

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    www.cafm-connect.org

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  1. eTASK Immobilien Software GmbH, Cologne, Germany

    Klaus Aengenvoort

  2. Faculty of Technology and Life, HTW Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Markus Krämer

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  1. Chair of Computational Modeling and Simulation, Technical University of Munich, MĂĽnchen, Germany

    André Borrmann

  2. Lehrstuhl für Informatik im Bauwesen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany

    Markus König

  3. Chair of Intelligent Technical Design, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany

    Christian Koch

  4. Chair of Design Computation, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Jakob Beetz

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Aengenvoort, K., Krämer, M. (2018). BIM in the Operation of Buildings. In: Borrmann, A., König, M., Koch, C., Beetz, J. (eds) Building Information Modeling. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92862-3_29

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