Building Information Modeling as Assest Management Tool

Building Information Management (BIM): From Planning Towards Work Process Tool?

The need for better integration and higher coordination in order to deliver the envisaged building requirements should avoid problematic situations in which the various professionals are not well informed about the building plans. This situation calls for more cooperative and interactive work practices e.g. at the interface between planning and production. Beside organisational gaps there are a...

Enhancing Maintenance Management Using Building Information Modeling in Facilitiesmanagement

Facilities management (FM) usually is difficult and complicated work. The facility staffs usually use paper or information system to record the facilities maintenance work. However, it is not easy for facility staffs to refer the traditional 2D CAD-based information illustration in the facility maintenance. Moreover, the information of same facilities maintenance needs to repeat the record and ...

Applying building information modeling to support fire safety management

Building Information Modeling Based Integration and Visualization for Facilities Management

complied with the regulations of the University and meets with the accepted standards with respect to originality and quality. Facilities managers need to identify and understand deterioration/failure causes-effect patterns in order to prepare preventive maintenance plans. However, this task is difficult because of the complex interaction between different building components and their operatio...

Modeling as Theory-Building

The purpose of this contribution is to make the idea of modeling as theory-building operational. We conceive the modeling process as a theory-building process, thereby opening up a new perspective on the methodology of modeling in the social sciences. By reconceptualizing the notion of modeling, we hope to convey the advantages of more conceptual thinking in management. Practitioners could gain...