BIM technologies applications in IBS building maintenance

Because of their characteristic attributes of storing all the information of a building and visualising the maintenance process of a project over its entire lifecycle,generating the automated control and monitoring of building diagnosis (e.g. component utilisation,component failure,etc.) as well as providing decision support for the choice of maintenance measures and the scheduling of maintenance,bim technologies have a special appeal for the building maintenance profession. in spite of this appeal,there are currently very few operational bim technologies in the field of ibs building maintenance. one reason for this may be a lack of awareness by the industry as to what bim technologies currently exist and what their capabilities are. presenting this information to the potential users in an easily scannable format is one of the objectives of this paper. a second objective of this effort is to present the characteristics of the state-of-the-art bim technologies to researchers and industry practitioners. this information will help them in making a choice of the most appropriate tools and trigger communication between users working in similar domains. © 2015 penerbit utm press. all rights reserved.