International. BIM as a structured process to optimize Facility Management activities and save on maintenance costs.
The great part of the costs of a building in its years of "economic" life is given by its operation and maintenance. Anyone who wants to implement programs to increase the efficiency of their real estate assets can only aim for Facilities Management.
Digitization, which converts documents, information, manual transactions into material of interest and automatic flow is the most important among the efficiency factors currently available to public administrations, companies and professionals operating in the sector.
Whoever embraces revolutionary reach does not embark on a journey into the unknown, as Christopher Columbus did in 1492, but rather "turns around" a new world of integrated design, simulations and advances of important decisions, reduction of interference and design inconsistencies, automation of low-value-added operations, management and maintenance efficiency, etc.
How big is the impact of the digital revolution, which is the prelude to automation, robotics and artificial intelligence, economies and work? What does it mean for the client to be able to dispose of all the design data in a finally digital format, which is then used by the construction site, which is then constructed and then served to manage the buildings and maintain the plants?
The next step is to structure and make relevant data and information intelligible, extrapolate it from the huge amount produced during design and construction phases, and make it available to decision-makers in real time and based on virtuous algorithms.
Therefore, a structured process is necessary from the beginning for the "definition of management and exchange of information". establish the model that will serve the facility manager from the design phase.
The maintenance of the building must be managed with a special platform, ideally bidirectional, capable of incorporating the requirements of the maintenance manual and using them as an input for the programming of interventions. In addition to managing maintenance, this platform must support the planning of spaces, the cataloguing of plants and furniture, the storage of the maintenance cards of each object, the maximum weather forecast and the costs related to the interventions carried out.
