Application of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the Health Monitoring and Maintenance Process: A Systematic Review.

Reihane Shafie Panah,Mahdi Kioumarsi

doi:10.3390/s21030837

Abstract

Improvements in the science of health monitoring and maintenance have facilitated the observation of damage and defects in existing structures and infrastructures, such as bridges and railways. The need to extend sensing technology through the use of wireless sensors as well as the lack of description tools for understanding, visualizing, and documenting sensor outputs has encouraged researchers to use powerful tools such as Building Information Modelling (BIM) systems. BIM has become important because of conducting tools widely used in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry to present and manage information on structural systems and situations. Since combining health monitoring and maintenance results with BIM models is a new field of study, and most projects utilize various aspects of it, we have conducted a review of important work related to this subject published from 2010 to November of 2020. After reviewing 278 journal articles, research trends, approaches, methods, gaps, and future agenda related to BIM in monitoring and maintenance were highlighted. This paper, through a bibliometric and content analysis, concludes that besides main improvements, some limitations now exist which affect the modeling and maintenance process. These limitations are related to extending the IFC schema, optimizing sensor data, interoperability among various BIM platforms, optimization of various sensing technologies for fault detection and management of huge amounts of data, besides consideration of environmental effects on monitoring hazards and underground objects. Finally, this paper aims to help to solve the mentioned limitation through a comprehensive review of existing research.

Highlights

Deterioration of concrete structures and infrastructures, such as bridges and railways, is an ongoing challenge for the owners
Current research attitudes show increasing the continuous interest in Facility maintenance management (FMM) with Building Information Modelling (BIM) which covers over 65% of facility management (FM) costs
The current study prepared a systematic review related to BIM application in health monitoring and maintenance of structures

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Introduction

Deterioration of concrete structures and infrastructures, such as bridges and railways, is an ongoing challenge for the owners. Assessing the real condition of the deteriorated structures is important to identify types of defects on time, and make appropriate repair strategies [1,2,3]. Due to the large number of aging infrastructures, structural health monitoring (SHM) has achieved an efficient role in the operation and maintenance phase of structural life-cycle management. Structures have different responses under various loads during their life cycle which can be measured through SHM systems and sensors to obtain information of changed parameters and elements [5,6]. The main steps in health monitoring are structural observations and measurement, condition assessment, information management, planning and decision making, execution of repairs, assessment of repair and maintenance performance [7,8]

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