BIM Methodology applied to Facility Management: development of an integrated tool to benefit the building operation

Abstract

―The Building Information Modeling (BIM) methodology applied to Facility Management (FM) has proven to be a great facilitator for professionals. However, this integration is still a little-explored topic in the construction sector. This is because there is still a significant obstacle in construction related to interoperability between systems, making it difficult to centralize information related to the building's operational phase. Thus, the application of BIM for FM is still experimental, with few practical studies on this subject being presented in the literature. In this context, this article aims to introduce a new tool called BIMBoard: a new way to present data exported from BIM projects, with practicality, speed, and efficiency, allowing all the stakeholders to access information and reporting of a building. In its first version, the BIMBoard tool enables practitioners to generate work orders for a particular element, centralizing data and benefiting the decision-making process during the building's operation phase. The future direction of this study is to add more capabilities to BIMBoard, connecting the program to the internet, thus allowing to extract information that is not possible only with BIM-based software.