Abstract
By offering a powerful means to retrieve information from a virtual model of a facility, building information modeling (BIM) has the potential to save the costs borne by owners and operators during facility operation and maintenance (O&M). Currently, researchers and industry professionals require a state-of-the-art overview of the various BIM-related inventions and innovative applications in the facility O&M field. Through a literature review, this paper aims to evaluate and summarize current BIM-O&M research and application developments, analyze research trends, and identify promising future research directions. Publications studied in this research have shown BIM’s capabilities in providing new functionalities for facility managers and supporting them in O&M tasks. Many comprehensive systems are established on the foundation of BIM and they can efficiently acquire, store, and process information, perform analysis to inform facility managers’ decisions, and automate some of the O&M functions.
Keywords
Building information modeling (BIM); Facilities management (FM);
Operation & maintenance (O&M); Literature review.
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