Systems information modelling: Enabling digital asset management

Love, Peter E.D.; Zhou, Jingyang; Matthews, Jane; Luo, Harbin

doi:10.1016/j.advengsoft.2016.10.007

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“…This approach provides the opportunity for asset managers, facility managers, end-users and contractors to participate because of improved shared understanding during asset development and subsequent asset operation and maintenance. These stakeholders will have the potential to retrieve, update and modify asset information right through BIM- (Codinhoto and Kiviniemi, 2014;Guillen et al, 2016;Love et al, 2016). These products allow stakeholders to monitor asset performance, activity and parameters during routine tasks.…”

Section: Bim Stakeholder Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Business value of integrated BIM-based asset management

Munir

Kiviniemi

Jones

2019

ECAM

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Purpose Currently, building information modelling (BIM) is largely seen as a 3D model, not as an information model or information management tool. This wrong perception of BIM and low interest in 3D asset management (AM) is one of the major reasons for the slow adoption by clients in the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. The purpose of this paper is to identify the techniques and strategies of streamlining AM systems for BIM-based integration, and how the information is captured from physical assets towards BIM-based integration for clients to derive value from BIM investments. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative case study strategy was used to study the strategic implementation process of integrating BIM with AM systems and the business value of BIM in AM by a large asset owner in the UK. Findings The paper identifies key strategies in the adoption of BIM-based processes by an asset owner, the implementation process, the challenges and the benefits attained. Several barriers were identified as the challenges of adopting BIM-based processes in AM: complexity and cost associated with BIM; irrelevance of 3D geometric data in AM processes; nature of asset ownership structure; managing the asset handover process; managing change within the organisation. Organisations will have to consider the following issues in streaming asset information with BIM: the development for a clear strategy prior to adoption; connecting the strategy to the business goals; and conducting the discovery exercise to identify organisational information needs. Originality/value The research addresses a significant gap in the development of techniques and strategies for asset owners to streamline BIM with AM systems and derive business value from such integration. The research context is a case study involving a large owner-operator in the UK that has been able to derive value from BIM systems in their AM processes. The key value of the paper is improving asset owners’ understanding of BIM in AM by demonstrating the implementation strategies, linkage to organisational objectives, challenges, value management process and business value of BIM in AM. Another contribution of the paper is improving the understanding of BIM, which is usually viewed as 3D models and that 3D geometric data do not have much value for AM tasks.

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Section: Bim Stakeholder Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Business value of integrated BIM-based asset management

Munir

Kiviniemi

Jones

2019

ECAM

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“…The same holds true for the question item that asked if the respondents found the interface pleasant as most respondents either strongly agreed (7) or agreed (13) with the question item. The interface of the system was shown to be attractive as most respondents either strongly agreed (14) or agreed (6) with the corresponding question item. Similarly, organisation of the E-GDH system was said to be clear as shown by the responses (strongly agreed, 8; agreed 9).…”

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“…The majority of target respondents (13 strongly agreed, 7 agreed) that the introduction of this system was helpful in helping the understanding of the cultural heritage. The third and final subsection of the three subsections under the evaluation category was concerned with evaluation of the effectiveness of the question item that asked if after using the system, respondents understood more about cultural heritage or not, majority of the target respondents either strongly agreed (6) or agreed (9) with the question item while 5 respondents were neutral or average on this question item. The same trend in responses was observed with the question item that asked if the E give knowledge about cultural heritage or not, majority of respondents to this effect eithe strongly agreed (8) or agreed (9) with the question item.…”

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A Basis of Cultural Education: Safeguarding Intangible Heritage Through a Web-Based Digital Photographic Collection

Lim¹,

Tan²,

Hambira³

2019

Computer Science &Amp; Information Technology (CS &Amp; IT )

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The 21 st century came with its own challenges as much as it brought various benefits through the advancement in technology. Cultural heritage is one such "casualty" of the developments in the 21 st century in that there has been a decline in appreciation and awareness of the importance of cultural heritage. Thus, the present study was necessitated with the primary aim of (i) preservation of the intangible cultural heritage of the people of Georgetown through the development of the E-George Town Digital Heritage (E-GDH) system (ii) develop an effective GUI for the E-DGH system in order to stimulate and captivate the attention of users with the aim of raising awareness as well to educate the masses on the importance of cultural heritage and (iii) to evaluate the effectiveness of the developed system in relation to its objective through the administration of questionnaires to target respondents. To this effect the study employed the use of the waterfall model to develop this E-GDH website. The study found that respondents (prior to using the E-GDH system) had no previous experience in terms of oral story telling from their parents. Overall, it was found that the GUI was pleasant and attractive for use by respondents and that they were able to learn easily as a result. Based on the fact that respondents where able to learn with ease due to an effective GUI, the study also revealed that the content they were learning from this website was actually easy for them to understand and that this website was indeed helpful in helping them to understand and appreciate cultural heritage. The meaning and conduct of the education sector in this era of advanced technology has shifted a lot over the years changing from teachers as the primary source of information to what is termed as "learner-centred" where they are given the leeway to learn, explore and make sense of the world around them and the findings from this study falls no short from this notion. The E-GDH website could be used by schools in subjects such as history where the teacher could use this website as reference point for a certain lesson outcome that deals with digital cultural heritage or intangible cultural heritage. Thus the study contributes immensely to the understanding of cultural heritage by raising awareness as well as stimulating the inters of the young generation to appreciate and learn more about their cultural heritage. The prominence of digitalising the intangible cultural heritage cannot be emphasised enough as recent study has shown decline in interests in these area so the development of the E-GDH is one such positive call to action in response to UNESCO's 2003 call for preservation of intangible cultural heritage and by extension, educating and raising awareness on the importance of cultural heritage.

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“…Design and engineering is only effective when it serves its intended purpose and is constructible within desired budget, time, quality and safety objectives [1]. An electrical instrumentation and control (EIC) contractor, for example, must be supplied with high quality information so as to enable them to construct their work effectively and efficiently and without hindrance [2][3][4][5][6][7]. Rarely, however, is the design and engineering of EIC documentation for mining projects produced with all the necessary information being made available when tenders are sought [8].…”

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System information modelling in practice: Analysis of tender documentation quality in a mining mega-project

Love

Zhou

Matthews

et al. 2017

Automation in Construction

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The quality of information contained in tender documentation produced using Computer-Aided-Design (CAD) and provided in a hardcopy format to an electrical engineering contractor for a port expansion facility, which formed an integral part of an Iron Ore mega-project is analyzed. A System Information Model (SIM), which is an object oriented approach, was retrospectively constructed from the documentation provided to assist the contractor with their tender bid preparation. During the creation of the SIM, a total of 426 errors and omissions were found to be contained within the 77 tender 'drawing' documents supplied to the contractor by an Engineering, Construction, Procurement and Management (EPCM). Surprisingly, 70 drawings referenced in the tender documentation, and the Input/Output lists and Cause/Effect drawings were not provided. Yet, the electrical contractor was required by the EPCM organization to provide a lump sum bid and also guarantee the proposed schedule would be met; the financial risks were too high and as a result the contractor decided not to submit a bid. It is suggested that if the original tender documentation had been prepared using a SIM rather than CAD, the quality of information presented to the contractor would have enabled them to submit a competitive bid for the works. The research concludes that the economic performance and productivity of mining projects can be significantly improved by using a SIM to engineer and document electrical instrumentation and control (EIC) systems.

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Systems information modelling: Enabling digital asset management

Cited by 32 publications

References 21 publications

Business value of integrated BIM-based asset management

Business value of integrated BIM-based asset management

A Basis of Cultural Education: Safeguarding Intangible Heritage Through a Web-Based Digital Photographic Collection

System information modelling in practice: Analysis of tender documentation quality in a mining mega-project

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