BIM-Based Maintenance Data Processing Mechanism through COBie Standard Development for Port Facility

Abstract

In the AECO field, there have been many efforts to transform the design, construction, and maintenance methods that have been carried out in the traditional way based on document-based data into digital ones. BIM makes it possible for the information necessary for the entire construction process to be transformed into a language that computers can understand. In the field of architecture, BIM has been actively used throughout the entire construction life cycle through steady research since the 2000s, while COBie was developed in order to deliver information generated in the design and construction phase to the maintenance phase based on the BIM environment. In the field of infrastructure, however, digital data-based maintenance information management has not been actively studied. In particular, in the case of a port, once a facility is built, it has to be maintained for a longer period than other facilities, so facility maintenance is of utmost importance. Therefore, this study applied COBie, which is being used in the architecture field (building), to the port field. To this end, the COBie standard format in the port field was developed based on the port facility object breakdown structure and property breakdown structure. The port COBie developed through this study is included when the BIM model is converted to the IFC model so that facility management can be performed through the IFC-based viewer in the future. The port COBie schema developed in this study can be expanded to other fields such as roads and bridges in the future.

A Simplified Facility Management Tool for Condition Assessment through Economic Evaluation and Data Centralization: Branch to Core

“…The peculiar combination of the fulfillment of these two needs-data processing and data collection framework-in the proposed methodology derives from an approach of soft additions to the paradigm of building maintenance, due to the easily recognizable delay in a diffuse assumption and incorporation of technologically complex solutions in the building sector. Meanwhile, in opposition to this tendency, BIM-based approaches [43], IoT devices [44], and digital twins [45] are now gaining more ground in relation to maintenance; however, there are still significant barriers to the adoption of these opportunities in smaller projects and for smaller firms, due to the need for trained personnel and higher technological costs. Moreover, in many contexts, there is still resistance toward radical changes from the traditional approach, even for valuable architectures.…”

Recording of bridge damage areas by 3D integration of multiple images and reduction of the variability in detected results

“…One solution to such problems is to standardize the data recording methods. For example, research is underway to introduce Construction Operation Building Information Exchange (COBie), a standard format for building information modeling (BIM)‐based maintenance data transfer, to infrastructure maintenance (Shin et al., 2022). Although COBie makes it possible to link information, such as the degree of damage, to individual members, no format has been established to record the detailed location and size of the damage.…”

Building Information Modelling Facility Management (BIM-FM)

“…It does not encompass all types of assets [65]; • Some elements have limited practical value [66]; • The structure is not easily customisable [66];…”

“…There have subsequently been many calls for the expansion of COBie [8,44,64] and IFC. Attempts have been made to extend COBie, but there is limited evidence of success to date, such as in the work discussed by Shin et al [65], who created a COBie for ports devoid of validation of their proposed schema. Furthermore, whilst Borhani and Dossick [8] advocated the use of a standard classification system for easier data transfer and extraction, they found, based on interviewing a number of asset owners, that they needed a certain level of customisation for their specific uses.…”