Data quality assessment of BIM models for facility management

Abstract

Despite the potentially significant benefits Building Information Modeling (BIM) has to offer in the facility operation and maintenance (O&M) phase, the industry has thus far only mainly implemented BIM in the design and construction phases. This may be due to the following issues: even though as-built BIM models are delivered at the handover stage, owners and operators rarely possess the expertise needed to efficiently use and update them; industry standards do not contain precise guidelines to ensure the ease of use, interoperability, and maintainability, for an efficient and effective utilization of models; and, as these models are mainly developed for the design and construction phases, they usually contain too many superfluous details and lack information required for the building’s operations. Thus, this research investigates delivering correspondences between as-built models and O&M requirements, using procedures and automated tools to facilitate quality management activities for creating BIM models for Facility Management (FM-BIM). To achieve this, a comprehensive checklist of information that must be present in the BIM models at the handover stage and of the unnecessary items that can be purged was created. This checklist is part of an overall quality framework that combines quality assurance and quality control to deliver usable models for operations. Additionally, a procedure and a set of tools have been investigated to automatically apply the items of the checklist on as built models. Finally, a process flow is presented to assist in quality management activities during the development of the models and to prepare them for handover. To verify the applicability of the developed tools and the proposed procedures, models of real construction projects were used in designed experiments.

Date	29 Sept 2020
Original language	American English
Awarding Institution	École de technologie supérieure
Supervisor	Ali Motamedi (Supervisor)