Efficient facility management practices and informed decision-making heavily rely on effective data management and analytics.
FREMONT, CA: Facility Management (FM) and Asset Management (AM) play a crucial role in the architecture, engineering, construction, and operation (AECO) industry, considering their significant impact on economies. Operational expenditures account for 80 percent of building lifecycle costs, making effective FM and AM practices essential. However, data management challenges within FM can lead to significant waste and inefficiencies, consuming approximately 80 percent of FM professionals' time. To address this issue and optimize FM processes, efficient decision-making supported by data analytics becomes paramount.
Interoperability issues between different FM platforms contribute to losing time in FM activities. Due to interoperability issues, manual data re-entry, verification, and unavailability are common challenges FM practices face. Many FM systems rely on 2D CAD files and manual data management, which leads to inefficiencies in retrieving information from various resources and documents. In contrast, leveraging 3D CAD files enables digital asset data management. Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been proposed as a solution in the literature, as it allows for storing semantic, geometric, and topological data that can be used for FM decision-making. However, modifications made to BIM objects may result in the loss of historical information related to those objects.
