Abstract
Geographical Information System (GIS) can be considered the core of the Interactive Facilities Management Environment (iFaME) framework in managing different facilities on the building bases. This study aims at building a comprehensive geodatabase for different elements of infrastructure facilities and services on the building bases for a selected number of schools and developing a GIS-based iFaME interactive application to manage different facilities at the school level in Kuwait. The iFaME is a two-dimensional/three-dimensional (2D/3D) desktop application. It is intended to take planners, decision makers, and maintenance experts inside the building to provide an interactive GIS platform to manage, visualize, query, maintain, and update the database related to school assets and facilities. The Autodesk Revit software was used to produce 3D building information models (BIM) for the selected schools. It provides accurate geometrical representation of the school building elements in an integrated data environment. The iFaME application is integrated with the Revit BIM models and the STAR-APIC Elyx 3D software solution. With the development of the iFaME applications, the facility managers in the MoE could establish greater control over the space allocation and management, asset management, emergency planning, and other areas of facility management. The school managers and maintenance engineers are considered among the most beneficiaries from this application. The school managers will monitor the maintenance activities all the time, while the maintenance engineers will use the application as a container for maintenance orders, and on the same time to document what they accomplished on daily basis. The iFaME application will reduce the maintenance cost of school assets and facilities in addition to increase their efficiency.
Highlights
The Interactive Facilities Management Environment is the framework that was used in the National Educational Atlas for Services and Infrastructure (NEASI): Facility Information Infrastructure (FII), phase-II project developed by the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) for the Ministry of Education (MoE)
The NEASI facility information infrastructure (FII) second phase was designed to provide the end user in the MoE with the required data to manage the facilities at the micro level within the buildings from many sources and in multiple forms [1] [2]
The “building” data set contains all space units and building references. They are stored in spatial Oracle geodatabase
Summary
Even if component-oriented CAD systems provide sophisticated functionalities for geometric modeling, they lack the comprehensive spatial analysis capabilities For this reason, floor plans of buildings can be stored in GIS database in order to use its 2D spatial analysis functionality; while the 3D spatial analysis would be a much more powerful tool for analyzing processes in buildings [6]. Floor plans of buildings can be stored in GIS database in order to use its 2D spatial analysis functionality; while the 3D spatial analysis would be a much more powerful tool for analyzing processes in buildings [6] To overcome these problems, the Building Information Modeling (BIM) approach was applied and 3D information models were developed to support managing and maintaining facilities in this study as a separate BIM 3D model for the selected schools. They illustrated the benefits of BIM upstream in the project lifecycle of the healthcare projects, especially the programming stage
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