Computer‐aided facilities management and facility conditions assessment software

Abstract

The economic recession in the USA during the late 1980s and early 1990s resulted in many organizations putting off scheduled maintenance of their physical plants. This has resulted in an enormous deferred maintenance backlog that companies are just beginning to attack. Software products are beginning to appear that take the building deficiency data collected during a physical audit and combine it with other data such as cost spreadsheets, financial investment models and computer-aided facilities management (CAFM) software. Such integrated software, which can incorporate multimedia information, is proving to be a powerful forecasting and strategic planning tool for management. Describes the technology involved in conditions assessment and how it is being used for real property and facility assessment purposes.

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

“…These are based on sets of indicators with associated scores and weights for each aspect of building quality, which are then combined to determine the rating of the analyzed building. Of course, they also include indicators for the technical characteristics of the components, providing scales of scores to be attributed according to the evaluators' judgment; as highlighted by several researchers [35][36][37][38][39], these represent a viable basis for the evaluation of component performance at a given time over the life cycle of buildings, concerning qualitative evaluations. Indeed, they are based on condition scales, which involve a linguistic representation, articulated around various qualifiers (protected/exposed; good/poor; slight/severe decay; and satisfactory/bad).…”

A review and bibliometric analysis of utilizing building information modeling (BIM) on effective operation and maintenance (O&M)

“…The life cycle cost of a property is estimated to be 5-7 times higher than the initial investment cost [8]. The design and construction phase costs less than 15% of the total life cycle cost of the building [9]. Meanwhile, the operation and maintenance phase, which is the longest phase in the life cycle, consumes more than 60% of the total cost [10].…”

Potential of Computed Aided Facility Management for Urban Water Infrastructure with the Focus on Rainwater Management

“…The challenges are more complicated than simply operational issues, and involve lack of investments: aging assets caused by low rehabilitation rates, water losses in water pipes, unwanted inflows in sewer systems, pollution from overflows or frequent flooding, may be caused by poor operation, but also by wrong technical options and low investments Optimization processes are often very complicated and lengthy, especially due to the scale of infrastructural constructions, however, despite this fact, they must not be left behind. Their long-term neglect or postponement can lead to fatal consequences in the urbanized area, therefore the optimization needs to be solved gradually [20].…”