Facilities: Volume 37 Issue 7/8

Shaping tomorrow’s facilities management

Jan Bröchner, Tore Haugen, Carmel Lindkvist

Against the background of earlier publications on the future of facilities management (FM) and acknowledging digitalization and sustainability as two major shaping forces, the…

Missed opportunities: two case studies of digitalization of FM in hospitals

Christian Koch, Geir Karsten Hansen, Kim Jacobsen

Digital practices of facility management (FM) are undergoing transformation. Several Nordic countries have ambitious hospital-building projects, driven by large public clients…

Improvement of the inspection-repair process with building information modelling and image classification

Jian Zhan, Xin Janet Ge, Shoudong Huang, Liang Zhao, Johnny Kwok Wai Wong, Sean XiangJian He

Automated technologies have been applied to facility management (FM) practices to address labour demands of, and time consumed by, inputting and processing manual data. Less…

Building information modelling to support maintenance management of healthcare built assets

Nadeeshani Wanigarathna, Keith Jones, Adrian Bell, Georgios Kapogiannis

This paper aims to investigate how digital capabilities associated with building information modelling (BIM) can integrate a wide range of information to improve built asset…

Identification of space management problems in public hospitals: The case of Maharaj Chiang Mai Hospital

Supuck Prugsiganont, Per Anker Jensen

In the past decades, public hospitals in Thailand have developed gradually and been characterized by an incremental development of hospital facilities. First, this study aims to…

Integration of facility management and building information modeling (BIM): A review of key issues and challenges

Manish K. Dixit, Varusha Venkatraj, Mohammadreza Ostadalimakhmalbaf, Fatemeh Pariafsai, Sarel Lavy

The purpose of this study is to investigate factors that impede the integration of facilities management (FM) into building information modeling (BIM) technology. The use of BIM…

The conditions data model supporting building information models in facility management

Esa Halmetoja

This paper aims to describe how building information model (BIM) and big data can be combined in the same interface for providing new value to stakeholders, such as the property…

VisualCOBie for facilities management: A BIM integrated, visual search and information management platform for COBie extension

Mehmet Yalcinkaya, Vishal Singh

The purpose of this paper is to describe the technical features, underlying concepts and implementation details of a novel Building Information Modeling (BIM)-integrated…