A BIM Enabled Automated Procurement Module for Intelligent Facility Management

Abstract

Buildings are an incumbent part of any society. They provide the necessary work environment for people. They serve as workplace, center for providing services; carry out daily activities whether government or private, and most importantly it is the quality of work environment inside a building that is directly related to quality of work done. This is where the concept of Facility Management (FM) fits in. The lifecycle of a building comprises two stages: construction and facility management. The construction phase is just a small part of the complete life of the building. The cost that incurs on this phase is much less and same is the case with time. When a building is ready for use then the phase of facility management starts and this is a never ending phase as long as the building is in use. Hitherto, conventional approaches have mostly been used for facility management which take more time and produce more costs. In most of the developed countries, there is a centralized system for facility management process to run efficiently. This system incorporates Building Information Modeling (BIM) augmented with Dynamo and automates the facility management process. This system converges all the stakeholders to a single platform, therefore enhancing the communication among them and improving the overall efficiency. The aim of this project is to develop a BIM based system for facility management by extracting information from BIM using Dynamo and then using QR codes and linking all this information using modern programming techniques.