To Develop 5D Model of School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering (SMME) West Wing Building in National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) H-12 Islamabad & use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Facility Management

Abstract

The project we did was basically aimed to implement building information modeling technology and associated set of processes to design, produce and analyze our building model. We did literature review from different books and research papers to understand BIM and its applications especially for facility management of building. For this purpose we have deliberately read many articles, books and documents related to BIM. The information and data that we have obtained, helped us in implementing BIM in our model more effectively and to practice facility management using BIM. It helped us to create better understanding about the benefits and problems related to BIM and its implementation. BIM implementation in our project was mainly aimed to form the 3D, 4D (scheduling), 5D (cost estimation) and energy efficient model of our building along with digital database and covering the facility management of the building. Nowadays as BIM is getting more and more attention from the construction related industries and firms, it is essential to know what BIM is?. How is it useful for the construction projects? Why it should be implemented? How it can be implemented in a project? We have mostly consulted from the articles published by BIM experts on authorized websites of internet and books wrote on BIM.100% implementation of BIM in any project is very difficult because of the complexity and lack of knowledge.. So, it was difficult to implement BIM 100% for us but we tried our best to learn all aspects of BIM by modeling our building using the available data and software related to BIM, but as BIM is mainly developed for large projects which involve architecture, design and construction firms so we focused on the modeling of building using software especially Autodesk Revit and Neviswork and worked on facility management in our project by learning different case studies.