Case Analysis to Identify Information Links between Facility Management and Healthcare Delivery Information in a Hospital Setting

Building information modeling for facilities management: A literature review and future research directions

“…This sub-category focuses on identifying the FM information requirements for successful facilities information management through BIM. The current research focused on very specific information requirements by identifying the required information of: healthcare facilities [38][39][40][41], HVAC systems [42][43][44], the building handover process [45][46][47][48][49]. Only one article was found that focused on creating a generic set of information requirements for a successful information exchange process [50].…”

Ontology in the AEC Industry

“…The scenarios that were identified for further study had an impact or a significant potential impact on patient safety and clinical operations. The selected scenarios were documented and analyzed to determine proper vocabulary terms to use in developing the ontology (Lucas et al 2013a). The analysis steps included: Descriptive narratives were created of the selected case studies that allowed for initial documentation and review by clinical and facility management personnel of the events.…”

“…The upkeep to the facility and resolution to facility related problems has an impact on patient safety and clinical operations within the healthcare environment. The longer it takes facilities personnel to resolve an issue the greater chance of a patient safety event and greater risk to clinical operations exist (Lucas et al 2013a). It is important that facility managers have the proper lifecycle information about the facility's past and current clinical happenings within the facility to ensure minimal impact on clinical operations while conducting repairs.…”

Towards a Formal Approach for Determining Functions of HVAC Components Represented in IFC

“…While BIM has been widely adopted in design and construction, application of BIM to support FM activities is still in its early stages. Previous research studies that focus on BIM for FM include developing IFC-compatible data models for FM purposes (Wix et al 1999;Hassanain et al 2001), storing and visualizing changes of facilities caused by maintenance and repair work in BIM (Akcamete et al 2011), and using different computerized approaches to leverage BIM to provide information support for maintenance work, such as case-based reasoning (Motawa and Almarshad 2013), augmented reality with makers (Lee and Akin 2001), and fault tree analysis (Lucas et al 2012). In addition to these, various information models that were developed for HVAC systems include embedded commissioning models for building commissioning process (Turkaslan-Bulbul and Akin 2006), models to represent building automation systems (Schein 2007), and functional taxonomy of HVAC components (Liu et al 2011).…”