Building information modelling facilities management (BIMFM) coordination for digital construction project
Journal of Facilities Management
ISSN: 1472-5967
Article publication date: 3 January 2023
Issue publication date: 22 August 2023
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to leverage the implementation of building information modelling (BIM) in facilities management (FM), and thus the integration of BIM and FM are explored. It looks at identifying the information needed to implement BIM application in FM, to determine the level of implementation of BIMFM as well as to recommend BIMFM application mapping for building life cycle.
Design/methodology/approach
This study applied qualitative methodology, upon which a purposive sampling to 16 interviewees were conducted among professionals involved in any BIM, FM, BIMFM projects. Final analysis was conducted using thematical analysis by ATLAS.ti software.
Findings
The types of information required to implement BIMFM range from managerial information, commercial information, technical information and all full life cycle data. The implementation of BIMFM is agreed as beneficial, as it builds up efficiency of building performance, able to close gap of loses information, helps to improve FM in terms of data management, mitigates the problems, identifies priority defects and to enhance the FM processes. Respondents also believed that the causes where there is no implementation of BIMFM is in the situations where things are in order and when it becomes very expensive.
Originality/value
This paper has managed to gather the essential elements toward leveraging the implementation of BIMFM in digital construction project which are in the means of information types, the needs of BIMFM implementation and towards the end drawing the BIMFM implementation plan framework that could be used as a reference for the practitioners and industry.
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Acknowledgements
The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS), grant no. FP078-2019A awarded by the Ministry of Higher Education throughout the conduct of this study.
Citation
Kamaruzzaman, S.N., Suznan, S.N. and Myeda, N.E. (2023), "Building information modelling facilities management (BIMFM) coordination for digital construction project", Journal of Facilities Management, Vol. 21 No. 4, pp. 535-555. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFM-10-2021-0127
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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