Facilities Management Action Agenda: The Australian Government and Industry Working Together for Improvement

BIM: Enabling Sustainability and Asset Management through Knowledge Management

“…The FM Exemplar Project combines three research streams dealing with Digital Modeling, Services Procurement, and Benchmarking as a whole and then develops collaboration between them. It aims to achieve innovative FM strategies and models that will showcase improved FM performance and promote best practices [ 9 , 13 ].…”

“…The combined direct and indirect contribution of the FM industry in 2002/2003 was AUS $12.2 billion of value added, AUS $12.4 billion in GDP terms, and (full time equivalent) employment of 172,000 persons. The combined contributions represented 1.8%, 1.65%, and 2.1% share of the corresponding Australian GDP and employment totals [ 13 ].…”

“…For government, there would appear to be great benefit in using BIM models for FM applications, as BIM can be used to integrate “a digital description of a built asset with all the elements that contribute to its ongoing function such as air conditioning, maintenance, cleaning, or refurbishment and describe the relationship between each element” [ 47 ]. The Sydney Opera House FM Exemplar Project is an example of BIM used as a facilities maintenance tool [ 13 , 47 , 53 ]. There are advantages to a computer model which can be handed on from one contractor to another in contracting-out regimes, the primary advantage being continuity of available information from one FM contractor to the next, thus enhancing the stewardship of such assets in contracting-out regimes.…”