BIM – Lecture # 08

BIM for Owners & Facility Managers

Dr.-Ing. Abdur Rehman Nasir

Assistant Professor of CE&M,
SCEE – NUST 1
WHY OWNERS SHOULD
CARE ABOUT BIM
Intro
▪ The AEC industry is facing a revolution, requiring both process
changes and a paradigm shift from 2D-based documentation
and staged delivery processes to a digital prototype and
collaborative workflow.

▪ The foundation of BIM is one or more coordinated and

information-rich building models with capabilities for virtual
prototyping, analysis, and virtual construction of a project.

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Intro
● These tools broadly enhance today’s CAD capabilities
with an improved ability to link design information with
business processes, such as estimating, sales forecasts,
and operations.

● These tools support a collaborative rather than

fragmented approach to project procurement.

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Intro

● This collaboration builds trust and common goals that serve the
owner rather than competitive relationships where each team
member strives to maximize their individual goals.

● In contrast, with drawing-based processes, analyses must be

done independently of the building design information, often
requiring duplicate, tedious, and error prone data entry.

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Intro

● The result is loss of value in information assets across phases,

many more opportunities for errors and omissions, and
increased effort to produce accurate project information.

● Consequently, such analyses can be out of sync with design

information and lead to errors.

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Intro

● With BIM-based processes, the owner can potentially realize a

greater return on his or her investment as a result of the
improved integrated design process, which increases the
value of project information in each phase and allows greater
efficiency for the project team.

● Simultaneously, owners can reap dividends in project quality,

cost, and future operation of the facility.

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Intro

● This lecture discusses how owners can use BIM to manage

project risk, improve project quality, and deliver value to their
businesses.

● It also shows how facility managers can use BIM to better

manage their facilities.

● These decisions ultimately control the scope and effectiveness

of BIM on a project.
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 BIM APPLICATION
AREAS FOR OWNERS

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BIM application for Owners

● Traditionally, owners have not been agents of change within

the building industry.

● Changing marketplace conditions, however, are forcing

owners to rethink their views and place greater emphasis on
the building delivery process and its impact on their business

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BIM application for Owners

● The firms that provide services to owners (AEC professionals)

often point to the short-sightedness of owners and the frequent
owner-requested changes that ultimately impact design
quality, construction cost, and schedule.

● Because of the considerable potential impact that BIM can

have on these problems, the owner is in the position to benefit
most from its use.

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BIM application for Owners

● The drivers that are motivating all types of owners to adopt BIM
technologies are listed below:

– Design assessment
– Complexity of facilities
– Time to market
– Cost reliability and management

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BIM application for Owners

● The drivers that are motivating all types of owners to adopt BIM
technologies are listed below:

– Sustainability
– Asset management

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Design Assessment
● Owners must be able to manage and evaluate the scope of
the design against their own requirements at every phase of a
project.

● During conceptual design, this often involves spatial analysis.

Later on, this involves analyses for evaluating whether the
design will meet its functional needs.

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Design Assessment
● Today, this is a manual process, and owners rely on designers
to walk through the project with drawings, images, or rendered
animations.

● Requirements often change, however, and even with clear

requirements, it can be difficult for an owner to ensure that all
requirements have been met.

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Design Assessment
Owners can work with their design team to use a building
information model to:

● Integrate development of project requirements

One potential tool to facilitate this process is BIMStorm, an environment and
process developed by Onuma Systems, which allows owners and multiple
participants and stakeholders to conceptualize a project, solicit input
from multiple sources, and assess in real time various design options from
cost, time, and sustainability perspectives
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Design Assessment
Owners can work with their design team to use a building
information model to:

● Improve program compliance through BIM spatial analyses

Owners are able to do rapid spatial analyses with BIM authoring tools. This
includes demonstrating how a building model can communicate in real
time both spatially and in data form, to check compliance with
requirements. Different colors are automatically assigned to rooms based
on their dimensions and function.

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Design Assessment
Owners can work with their design team to use a building
information model to:

● Receive more valuable input from project stakeholders through visual

Simulation
The traditional use of real-time and highly rendered walkthrough
technologies are one-time events, whereas the BIM and 4D tools make
what-if design explorations far easier and more viable economically.

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Design Assessment
Owners can work with their design team to use a building
information model to:

● Rapidly reconfigure and explore design scenarios

The traditional use of real-time and highly rendered walkthrough
technologies are one-time events, whereas the BIM and 4D tools make
what-if design explorations far easier and more viable economically.

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Design Assessment
Owners can work with their design team to use a building
information model to:

● Simulate facility operations

Owners may need additional types of simulations to assess the design
quality beyond walkthroughs or visual simulations. These may include crowd
behavior or emergency evacuation scenarios. The simulations used the
building information model as a starting point for generating these
scenarios. Such simulations are labor intensive and involve the use of
specialized tools and services

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Complexity of facilities
● BIM tools and processes can support owners’ efforts to
coordinate the increasingly complex building infrastructure
and regulatory process by:

● Coordinating infrastructure through fully integrated 3D models of MEP,

architectural, and structural systems

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Complexity of facilities
● BIM tools and processes can support owners’ efforts to
coordinate the increasingly complex building infrastructure
and regulatory process by:

● Producing higher-quality and maintainable infrastructure through

interactive review of coordinated models

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Complexity of facilities
● BIM tools and processes can support owners’ efforts to
coordinate the increasingly complex building infrastructure
and regulatory process by:

● Preventing litigation through collaborative creation and conclusion of

building information models

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Sustainability
From the owner’s perspective, BIM processes can help:

● Reduce energy consumption through energy analysis

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Sustainability
From the owner’s perspective, BIM processes can help:

● Improve operational productivity with model creation and simulation

tools
BIM technologies provide owners with tools needed for assessing the
appropriate tradeoffs when considering the use of daylighting and the
mitigation of glare and solar heat gain, as compared with project cost and
overall project requirements.

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Cost Reliability and Management
Owners can manage cost with BIM applications to provide:

● More reliable estimates early in the process with conceptual BIM

estimating

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Cost Reliability and Management
Owners can manage cost with BIM applications to provide:

● Faster, better-detailed, and more accurate estimates with BIM quantity

takeoff tools

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Time to Market: Schedule Management
BIM provides owners and their project teams with tools to
partially automate design, simulate operations, and employ
offsite fabrication. These innovations provide owners with a
variety of BIM applications to respond to the following time to
market needs:

● Reduce time to market through the use of parametric models

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Time to Market: Schedule Management
BIM provides owners and their project teams with tools to
partially automate design, simulate operations, and employ
offsite fabrication. These innovations provide owners with a
variety of BIM applications to respond to the following time to
market needs:

● Reduce schedule duration with 3D coordination and prefabrication

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Time to Market: Schedule Management
BIM provides owners and their project teams with tools to
partially automate design, simulate operations, and employ
offsite fabrication. These innovations provide owners with a
variety of BIM applications to respond to the following time to
market needs:

● Reduce schedule-related risk with BIM-based planning

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Time to Market: Schedule Management
BIM provides owners and their project teams with tools to
partially automate design, simulate operations, and employ
offsite fabrication. These innovations provide owners with a
variety of BIM applications to respond to the following time to
market needs:

● Quickly respond to unforeseen field conditions with 4D-coordinated BIM

models

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Facility and Information Asset Management
Owners who view the total lifecycle ownership of their projects
can use a building model strategically and effectively to:

● Commission a building more efficiently

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Facility and Information Asset Management
Owners who view the total lifecycle ownership of their projects
can use a building model strategically and effectively to:

● Quickly populate a facility management database

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Facility and Information Asset Management
Owners who view the total lifecycle ownership of their projects
can use a building model strategically and effectively to:

● Manage facility assets with BIM asset management tools

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Facility and Information Asset Management
Owners who view the total lifecycle ownership of their projects
can use a building model strategically and effectively to:

● Rapidly evaluate the impact of retrofit or maintenance work on the

facility

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Thank you!

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