Use of BIM-FM to Transform Large Conventional Public Buildings into Efficient and Smart Sustainable Buildings

Rubén Muñoz Pavón,Marcos García Alberti,Antonio Alfonso Arcos Álvarez,Isabel Del Rosario Chiyón Carrasco

doi:10.3390/en14113127

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Journal: Energies	Publication Date: May 27, 2021
Citations: 22	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, University of Piura

Abstract

New technologies regarding construction, materials and facility management have led to the successful implementation of smart and more sustainable buildings. This is of special interest for the management of large and complex public buildings. However, most of these types of buildings were built in Europe during the previous century, when those technologies were still a matter of research. The appearance of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and the combined use of it with other advances in Facility Management (FM) as well as Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data and others, has opened the door to the possible transformation of such type of buildings into more efficient smart buildings without very large investments. In this study, this was studied thoroughly. In addition, the advantages and possibilities were assessed on a case study performed in the Civil Engineering School at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid built in 1969. The main objective of the paper was to show the details and possibilities to transform the building into a smart and more sustainable building by using BIM-FM techniques and self-designed sensors. The conclusions showed that using a three-dimensional model as the center of the management together with the connection with other applications, databases and facility management tools can transform the building into a Smart Building. In addition, the management of the system can be done from the web, nearing the information to the management staff and to the user. All advances were self-developed in order to satisfy the specific needs of the building.

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The educational infrastructure management is a heterogeneous topic
This fact supposes an important gap between most European universities and the denominated Smart Campus concept, which involve the implementation of technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) [8,9,10,11,12], Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) [9,10,13], cloud computing [14,15] or mobile terminal accessing are implemented [13,16]
The main aim of this paper is to show the possibilities and conclusions of the use of Building Information Modelling (BIM)-Facility Management (FM) obtained after the works of transformation of the ETSICCP at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) into a smart and more efficient building, closer to the idea of Smart Campus with a digital twin of the infrastructure based on BIM methodology

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While more innovations are related to private educational buildings, public institutions usually house traditional management systems and most of their facilities were built in the previous century. Such systems are based on manual processing or paper format administrations techniques. Many university facilities in Europe were built in the decade of 1960s, as it is the case of the Civil Engineering School (ETSICCP) at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. This experience could be applicable to many buildings with relatively close characteristics, such as those university venues close in age as well as other large public buildings that share the same issues such as such as hospitals, high-schools, public office buildings, etc

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