Articles in Channel "Facility Management" 2 results found
BIM-FM: The evolution in Facilities Management
Over the past years, we have witnessed a tremendous effort made by the Owners in the increased importance given to the buildings operation and maintenance phase. This effort has also been made in changing the way that the life cycle of a building is seen, with regard to the costs of the several phases. According to some reports, only about 15% of the total costs of a building are applied in the construction phase. Not forgetting the huge effort by the Owner to reverse this scenario, there is still much to do.read more
BIM-FM Implementation
Historically, the owners always chosen the most cost-effective construction solutions, this because the construction was considered the biggest expense. ‘Studies conducted in several countries, for different types of buildings, show that the annual costs involved in the buildings operation and maintenance varies between 1% and 2% of its initial cost. This may seem small, but over the buildings life cycle gets to be equivalent to or above the cost of the construction’ [1]. This mentality arises from the lack of knowledge of what means the life cycle of a building. In the figure below you can see that the construction is just one of the costs involved in the building whole life cost.read more