BIM-based integrated management workflow design for schedule and cost planning of building fabric maintenance

The operation and maintenance (O&M) is the longest and costliest phase during the entire building lifecycle. In recent decades, with the rapidly increasing costs of new constructions, the effective maintenance has become more important to the existing buildings, particularly to their fabric comp...

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Main Authors: Chen, Chao, Tang, Llewellyn
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019
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description The operation and maintenance (O&M) is the longest and costliest phase during the entire building lifecycle. In recent decades, with the rapidly increasing costs of new constructions, the effective maintenance has become more important to the existing buildings, particularly to their fabric components, which include both architectural and structural items for maintaining physical characteristics and ensuring normal performance of the existing building over its lifecycle. However, building maintenance costs are also increasing dramatically and this situation mainly results from the delay of maintenance work due to inefficient maintenance planning for the facility management purpose. The inefficient maintenance planning is caused due to lack of effective methods and techniques for predicting the uncertainties including schedule and costs during the maintenance stage. Therefore, this paper proposes an innovative management workflow design which integrates Building Information Modelling (BIM) with digital programming to implement efficient schedule and cost planning of building fabric maintenance. Through this BIM-based workflow design, the knowledge gap between maintenance theories and practical maintenance management can be narrowed by a consistent and sustainable building information flow, which is highly linked with the design and construction phase. This study makes a contribution to integrating the traditional maintenance management with digital technologies to improve the management performance and maintenance efficiency of the O&M phase in the future.
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spelling nottingham-590902019-09-24T01:01:40Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/59090/ BIM-based integrated management workflow design for schedule and cost planning of building fabric maintenance Chen, Chao Tang, Llewellyn The operation and maintenance (O&M) is the longest and costliest phase during the entire building lifecycle. In recent decades, with the rapidly increasing costs of new constructions, the effective maintenance has become more important to the existing buildings, particularly to their fabric components, which include both architectural and structural items for maintaining physical characteristics and ensuring normal performance of the existing building over its lifecycle. However, building maintenance costs are also increasing dramatically and this situation mainly results from the delay of maintenance work due to inefficient maintenance planning for the facility management purpose. The inefficient maintenance planning is caused due to lack of effective methods and techniques for predicting the uncertainties including schedule and costs during the maintenance stage. Therefore, this paper proposes an innovative management workflow design which integrates Building Information Modelling (BIM) with digital programming to implement efficient schedule and cost planning of building fabric maintenance. Through this BIM-based workflow design, the knowledge gap between maintenance theories and practical maintenance management can be narrowed by a consistent and sustainable building information flow, which is highly linked with the design and construction phase. This study makes a contribution to integrating the traditional maintenance management with digital technologies to improve the management performance and maintenance efficiency of the O&M phase in the future. Elsevier 2019-11 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/59090/1/BIM-%E5%B7%B2%E8%9E%8D%E5%90%88.pdf Chen, Chao and Tang, Llewellyn (2019) BIM-based integrated management workflow design for schedule and cost planning of building fabric maintenance. Automation in Construction, 107 . p. 102944. ISSN 0926-5805 Building information modelling (BIM); Management workflow; Building fabric maintenance; Cost and schedule planning; Digital programming;Integration http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2019.102944 doi:10.1016/j.autcon.2019.102944 doi:10.1016/j.autcon.2019.102944
spellingShingle Building information modelling (BIM); Management workflow; Building fabric maintenance; Cost and schedule planning; Digital programming;Integration
Chen, Chao
Tang, Llewellyn
BIM-based integrated management workflow design for schedule and cost planning of building fabric maintenance
title BIM-based integrated management workflow design for schedule and cost planning of building fabric maintenance
title_full BIM-based integrated management workflow design for schedule and cost planning of building fabric maintenance
title_fullStr BIM-based integrated management workflow design for schedule and cost planning of building fabric maintenance
title_full_unstemmed BIM-based integrated management workflow design for schedule and cost planning of building fabric maintenance
title_short BIM-based integrated management workflow design for schedule and cost planning of building fabric maintenance
title_sort bim-based integrated management workflow design for schedule and cost planning of building fabric maintenance
topic Building information modelling (BIM); Management workflow; Building fabric maintenance; Cost and schedule planning; Digital programming;Integration
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/59090/
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https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/59090/