A BIM-based framework for operation and maintenance of utility tunnels

Yin, Xianfei; Liu, Hexu; Chen, Yuan; Wang, Yaowu; Al‐Hussein, Mohamed

doi:10.1016/j.tust.2019.103252

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“…Isikdag and Underwood [17] defined that BIM is a new way to create, share, exchange, and manage information in the whole building life cycle. Yin et al [19] proposed BIM is a parametric design tool for the digital representation of construction projects and an information-sharing platform for supporting collaboration among project team members and various stakeholders. While several relevant definitions of BIM have been established, for this paper, BIM is defined as an information modeling technology to promote safe, green, energy-saving, and comfortable buildings by integrating all information of the project's whole life cycle.…”

Section: Concepts Of Smart Buildings and Bimmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adopting Building Information Modeling (BIM) for the Development of Smart Buildings: A Review of Enabling Applications and Challenges

Yang

Han

Zeng

et al. 2021

Advances in Civil Engineering

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The construction industry is undergoing a digital revolution due to the emergence of new technologies. A significant trend is that construction projects have been transformed and upgraded to the digital and smart mode in the whole life cycle. As a critical technology for the construction industry’s innovative development, building information modeling (BIM) is widely adopted in building design, construction, and operation. BIM has gained much interest in the research field of smart buildings in recent years. However, the dimensions of BIM and smart building applications have not been explored thoroughly so far. With an in-depth review of related journal articles published from 1996 to July 2020 on the BIM applications for smart buildings, this paper provides a comprehensive understanding and critical thinking about the nexus of BIM and smart buildings. This paper proposes a framework with three dimensions for the nexus of BIM application in smart buildings, including BIM attributes, project phases, and smart attributes. According to the three dimensions, this paper elaborates on (1) the advantages of BIM for achieving various smartness; (2) applications of BIM in multiple phases of smart buildings; and (3) smart building functions that be achieved with BIM. Based on the analysis of the literature in three dimensions, this paper presents the cross-analysis of the nexus of BIM and smart buildings. Lastly, this paper proposes the critical insights and implications about the research gaps and research trends: (1) enhancing the interoperability of BIM software; (2) further exploring the role of BIM in the operation and refurbishment phase of smart buildings; (3) paying attention to BIM technology in the field of transportation infrastructure; (4) clarifying the economic benefits of BIM projects; and (5) integrating BIM and other technologies.

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Section: Concepts Of Smart Buildings and Bimmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adopting Building Information Modeling (BIM) for the Development of Smart Buildings: A Review of Enabling Applications and Challenges

Yang

Han

Zeng

et al. 2021

Advances in Civil Engineering

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“…Structural safety is the main goal of engineers all over the world; therefore, they are drawn to investigate novel ways of assessing structural defects, facilitated by BIM. Existing research in this area has focused on: goals such as conflict detection based on the life cycle versus as-built documents by considering all changes in the structure, fault detection of energy-consuming tools in buildings through BIM and simulation tools for energy monitoring, fault detection in buildings and non-structural components, damage detection in timber structures, tunnel flaws diagnosis to find maintenance strategies that are also used for utility tunnels, fault detection of hospitals for rehabilitation, automatic detection, and identification of lamps in a building [ 138 , 155 , 156 , 157 , 158 , 159 , 160 , 161 , 162 , 163 , 164 , 165 ]. Some papers used laser scanner data of existing structures along with BIM models [ 166 ].…”

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Application of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the Health Monitoring and Maintenance Process: A Systematic Review

Panah

Kioumarsi

2021

Sensors

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Improvements in the science of health monitoring and maintenance have facilitated the observation of damage and defects in existing structures and infrastructures, such as bridges and railways. The need to extend sensing technology through the use of wireless sensors as well as the lack of description tools for understanding, visualizing, and documenting sensor outputs has encouraged researchers to use powerful tools such as Building Information Modelling (BIM) systems. BIM has become important because of conducting tools widely used in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry to present and manage information on structural systems and situations. Since combining health monitoring and maintenance results with BIM models is a new field of study, and most projects utilize various aspects of it, we have conducted a review of important work related to this subject published from 2010 to November of 2020. After reviewing 278 journal articles, research trends, approaches, methods, gaps, and future agenda related to BIM in monitoring and maintenance were highlighted. This paper, through a bibliometric and content analysis, concludes that besides main improvements, some limitations now exist which affect the modeling and maintenance process. These limitations are related to extending the IFC schema, optimizing sensor data, interoperability among various BIM platforms, optimization of various sensing technologies for fault detection and management of huge amounts of data, besides consideration of environmental effects on monitoring hazards and underground objects. Finally, this paper aims to help to solve the mentioned limitation through a comprehensive review of existing research.

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“…As BIM provides easy-to-read 3D map data and visualization for various stakeholders, Yin et al (2020) proposed a framework for the operation and maintenance of underground utility tunnels. The BIM platform can be used as a data source that contains rich information about the tunnel utility, equipment, and pipelines.…”

Section: Bim Use In Tunnellingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Implementing BIM for conventional tunnels - a proposed methodology and case study

Mitelman¹,

Gurevich²

2021

ITcon

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The topic of Building Information Modelling (BIM) adoption by public organizations has become a central subject of research, and a significant amount of BIM documents, guidelines, and standards have been created to meet different organizational purposes. Compared to the building industry, the application of BIM tools for tunnel project management is lagging far behind. This paper proposes a methodology for integrating BIM tools for conventional tunnelling. A fundamental distinction is made between the tunnel internal architectural domain and the external structural domain. For the former, BIM methodology can be applied similarly to the building industry. For the latter, it is suggested that a BIM model be built according to the essential information generated during tunnelling excavation. The proposed methodology was put to test for an actual tunneling project. A routine was established where the supervisor on behalf of the owner was responsible for gathering and reporting essential data in tabular form. Via REVIT's Application Programming Interface (API), a code was developed so that a BIM model was built and updated automatic to data insertion. Ultimately, the final BIM model allows managing up-to-date qualitative and quantitative information visually. Thus, human understanding and interpretation are enhanced for future uses, such as maintenance, future renovations and project post-analysis.

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A BIM-based framework for operation and maintenance of utility tunnels

Cited by 86 publications

References 38 publications

Adopting Building Information Modeling (BIM) for the Development of Smart Buildings: A Review of Enabling Applications and Challenges

Adopting Building Information Modeling (BIM) for the Development of Smart Buildings: A Review of Enabling Applications and Challenges

Application of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the Health Monitoring and Maintenance Process: A Systematic Review

Implementing BIM for conventional tunnels - a proposed methodology and case study

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