You have been appointed as the Facility Manager for a newly constructed project. The main contractor has shared the as-built BIM model with you and your team. In your course of using BIM, you need to send data to or receive data from other systems.

(a) How do you make sure the exchange of data between systems is least disruptive? Discuss at least THREE (3) possible scenarios.

 

Q2. Your department is responsible for assigning rooms in a new tower to employees for both new and existing allocation. The new tower was constructed using a BIM authoring tool.

(a) Recommend what you could do more with this BIM model as far as asset and operation & maintenance (O&M) are concerned.

(20 marks)

Q3. You are in the middle of preparing the presentation to your management on BIM for FM implementation plan. Recommend topics to be included in your presentation. Provide details for each of your presentation topics.

(25 marks)

Q4. Although BIM authoring applications do not natively support facilities management, BIM can potentially be leveraged to facilitate many building life cycle requirements. Identify how can BIM be leveraged for lifecycle requirements.

(5 marks)

Q5a. You are representing a building owner, one of your jobs is to define the information requirements. Examine the information requirements for the building owner at the various levels such from

1) a strategic perspective,

2) at the operational level, and

3) how could this information be specified in the tender specification?

(15 marks)

Q5b. Identify the parties involved in defining the information requirements at various levels as mentioned in Question 5a above.

(10 marks).