BIM-based facility management: A critical appraisal of benefits and challenges

Abstract

For the past few decades, construction industry has seen slow and steady growth with respect to innovation and productivity. This debate was finally renewed with the introduction of building information modeling (BIM), which has emerged as a probable solution for facility managers to counter the challenges of poor interoperability and information handling during project handover stage. Also, in the Indian context, with the increasing development, use of new and latest technology becomes an integral part, which instigates a need of using BIM along with other technologies. However, despite the advantages like automation in data entry and ease of accessing the data, BIM in facility management (FM) is being adopted very slowly. A comprehensive literature review reveals that there is an improvement related to the accurac of facility management data which increases the efficiency of executing work orders. It also reveals that using BIM in FM for existing buildings is a challenging task with very few real world case studies. This paper aims to analyze the values added by BIM in FM and the challenges that obstruct the exploitation of the same. In particular, this paper contains a qualitative study of the state-of-art literature scrutinizing the interactions of BIM and FM.