Abstract
Recent decades have seen a dramatically increasing pace of highway tunnel construction in China. The continuous growth of highway tunnels creates a challenge to facility management (FM) to ensure a safe and reliable operation of the tunnels. The FM is complicated by the poor operation environment, long design life, and long geographical distribution of the tunnels. This study aims to develop a specification-compliant FM system based on Building Information Modeling (BIM) using the Lingxia tunnel in Wenzhou, China as a testbed. The critical FM information capture, category, integration and transmission methods are discussed. The data structure of the responsible personnel, process and product for each FM task is developed. The system framework is designed to consist of five modules including project documentation, personnel and contactors, FM plan and execution, technical performance evaluation, and safety and emergency management. The Chinese industry specifications for highway tunnels are implemented and interpreted with a computer-processable format into the system. This research contributes to the body of knowledge by describing one of the first few pilot applications of the BIM-based tunnel FM and identifying the challenges encountered. The application of the system in the mountainous tunnels in China demonstrates the feasibility and benefits of the BIM-based FM related to productivity improvement.
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