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Section A: To be completed by the student

Student’s Ir. TANAPAL A/L Student Matric I22022211
Name BALARAMAN No.

Unit Code & Title CMG 6201 Session May 2022

BIM THEORY AND PRACTICE
Assignment type Individual % of module mark 15%

Date hand out 21 May 2022 Due date 24 July 2022 (before
5.00pm)
Intended Learning Outcome assessed by this work:

CLO1 - Assess the characteristics of BIM and its usage in construction industry. (C3,PLO1)
CLO3 - Adapt the capability of BIM information management and exchange in handling construction
technical and sustainability issues. (P6,PLO6)

Section B: To be completed by the Assessor

Marks breakdown Max Awarded

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Individual Assignment: Article Review

Week No.: 4
Topic: Challenges of BIM
Article title: BIM for Facility Management: Challenges and Research Gaps

S. Neda Naghshbandi (2016) conducted a study about the exploration gaps in the area
of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Facility Management (FM) industry and
identifies practical challenges that facility management professionals are facing in
utilizing BIM. The construction industry has been facing a paradigm shift to increase
productivity, efficiency, infrastructure value and effective collaboration and
communication of stakeholders in construction projects. Even though the BIM has
been adopted in construction industry since early 2000’s in aligning with Industrial
Revolution IR4.0, there are still a talk in town that “Construction does not understand
FM”. This resulted nightmares to Facility Managers in implementing BIM in FM.
Thus, the Author intended to support this statement by highlighting the problems
faced by FM in BIM implementation and how FM Managers can benefit from the
advantages of BIM to enhance managing the intensive amount of information in BIM.
The Author also suggested few solutions to overcome these challenges with the
intention to improve construction industry productions.

The participants: The Author uses an intensive literature review from international
research papers around the world to highlight the potential BIM implementation
issues in Facility Management. A total of 28 papers were reviewed and several key
issues were identified to support the Author’s intention. The Author highlighted
research gaps in BIM for FM, and practical challenges of BIM implementation in
facility management phase of projects. The most issues and findings were identified
in these 5 main research papers listed as follows:

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i. O. Davtalaba and J. L. Delgadob, "Benefits of 6D BIM for Facilities

Management Departments for Construction Projects–A Case Study
Approach," presented at the ISARC 2014, 2014.
ii. SWG. How Does BIM Benefit Facilities Managers? [Online]. Available:
http://www.swg.com/blog/how-does-bim-benefitfacilities-managers/
iii. R. Williams, H. Shayesteh, and L. Marjanovic-Halburd, "Utilising Building
Information Modeling For Facilities Management," International Journal of
Facility Management, vol. 5, 2014.
iv. B. Haines. (2016). The Benefits of Lifecycle BIM for Facility Management.
Available: https://fmsystems.com/blog/thebenefits-of-lifecycle-bim-for-
facility-management/
v. G. Kelly, M. Serginson, S. Lockley, N. Dawood, and M. Kassem, "BIM for
facility management: a review and a case study investigating the value and
challenges," in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on
Construction Applications of Virtual Reality, 30-31 October 2013, London, U,
2013.

After the literature review the Author concluded that there are many unsolved
problems which need to be take care to achieve effective BIM implementation for
FM. The findings are listed as follows:

a. Lack of Best Practice and Guidelines

The Author pointed out that the existing case studies are unscientific and
unreliable about opportunities and benefits and the Facility Managers need
real world hard evidence to advertise BIM to owners.

b. Construction Industry Doesn’t Understand FM

The study shows that facility managers are not being engaged in the early
phases of a facility lifecycle and even if they were involved in the early

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stages of projects, they were not seen as valuable participants because of

shortage of BIM skills.

c. Limited Consideration in Identification of FM Data Requirement

The Author indicated that there is a knowledge and technology gap between
designers and facility managers that caused the failure of identification of FM
data at early stage of project life cycle.

d. Inaccurate, Incomplete or Unnecessary Information of BIM

The research shows that most BIM created for design and construction phases
contain significant quality issues including inaccurate, incomplete, or
unnecessary information due to incomplete sub-systems designs such as
Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing works.

e. Interoperability and Data Exchange Issue

The Author pointed that there is a limited compatibility between BIM and FM
technologies which is more problematic because of considerable difference
among life cycle of BIM technologies and FM technologies.

f. Limited Compatibility between BIM & FM Software

The Author describes that the limited compatibility was caused by
considerable difference among life cycle of BIM technologies, and FM
technologies.

g. Shortage of Contractual Framework for the Implementation of BIM for

FM
The paper indicates that to prevent wasting time, effort and investment on this
issue, it is fundamental to determine what information coordinates best with
the organization strategies.

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After listing the findings, the Author suggested few actions to consider overcoming
the above said challenges. The suggestions are as follows:
i. There is a need for case studies and hard evidence to prove the benefit of BIM
for FM and clarify practical challenges
ii. It is required to enhance the relationship among different stakeholders of the
AEC industry and advance collaboration between designers, constructors, and
facility managers
iii. FM should proactively define the information requirements at the start point of
the project life cycle, rather than waiting for the project closeout to collect
information
iv. Further research is needed to enhance the integration of BIM and facility
management systems which is aligned to fully utilization of BIM, to improve
the construction industry productions.

As a conclusion, the Author indicated that the studies show that facility managers can
benefit from the advantages of BIM to enhance managing the intensive amount of
information. Still, integration of BIM and FM systems faces serious problems. There
are some technical and nontechnical barriers to adopt BIM for FM. By resolving these
barriers, BIM could become a beneficial tool to Facility Management.

Reference:
S. Neda Naghshbandi, “BIM for Facility Management: Challenges and Research
Gaps”, 2016.