Abstract
Facility management (FM) is the most extended phase of the entire life cycle of buildings and incurs the highest expenses. However, limited quality drawings and historical data make information flow more complicated for many existing buildings and lead to inefficient FM. This research proposes a systematic and comprehensive reality point cloud model-based framework to support the FM process with feasible visual data collection. Specifically, this framework covers an end-to-end workflow of using a reality model to implement FM strategies, including visual data capture process for generating a reality model; FM information attachment in a reality model for issue queries; and information flow for issue tracking. The resulting reality model captures with critical and necessary FM data input can be used as an asset information model (AIM). We have also defined stakeholders' responsibilities in implementing FM and how the data are transferred, updated, and used within a reality point cloud-based AIM by stakeholders. The framework is evaluated by interviewing FM experts, and the results demonstrate that implementing the framework could improve the FM process's efficiency by using reality models.
Highlights
Facility management (FM) is an integrated approach that aims to maintain and improve buildings and facilities and further promote a fertile environment in the post-construction phase (Pärn et al, 2017)
The proposed framework can solve the problem of applying Building information modeling (BIM) as mentioned in the literature in FM for existing buildings by using reality point cloud model to develop point cloud-based asset information model (AIM)
The collaboration workflow fills the knowledge gaps of stakeholder roles and responsibilities and how data are exchanged between stakeholders that were not covered in previous studies (3) This study developed a case study and a prototype AIM that can be used as both a recommendation database and a facility manager tool in FM
Summary
Facility management (FM) is an integrated approach that aims to maintain and improve buildings and facilities and further promote a fertile environment in the post-construction phase (Pärn et al, 2017). Retrieving the specific information required for maintenance activities in a building is a time- and cost-consuming process for stakeholders (Becker et al, 2018). Some research has shown that information from the earlier stages of the construction life cycle is often insufficient or in poor quality to serve the operation and maintenance process (Becerik-Gerber et al, 2012a). Especially the buildings built a long time ago, retrieving information required for the building’s operation and maintenance processes, such as manuals, technical specifications of the property, or construction drawings, is even a more considerable challenge. Chairman Special assistant to chief executive officer Chief executive officer General manager General manager
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