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Real-World Solutions: Autodesk® Revit® for Facility Lifecycle Management
Steven Segarra, CTO ARCHIBUS, Inc.
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Organizations can achieve great efficiencies by using Autodesk Revitmodels for facility management. However, organizations looking to do so face a daunting number of questions to answer: What standards have to be in place before the project starts? What is the cost of lifecycle Building Information Modeling (BIM) and the expected return? What is the correct level of detail for the model? Who originates the data and what is the information flow? How do you survey data on existing buildings? How do you check the accuracy? And, how do you searchmodels in a campus to obtain practicable business results?
To find the answers, this class reviews the challenges, solutions, and outcomes of three realprojects that used Revit models and ARCHIBUS® for facility management: a 20construction project at a Fortune 500 company, a 1,000,000and a portion of a 2,600,000-square
Learning Objectives At the end of this class, you will be able to:
• Define a business-driven BIM-Execution Plan for
• Right-size your level of detail and give
• Use successful patterns of BIM and commissioning data flow
• Understand the role of Revit, COBIE, ARCHIBUS and other tools for lifecycle management
About the Speaker
Steve Segarra is the chief technology officer at ARCHIBUS, Inc., which
infrastructure, and facility management software
received his degree in Architecture and Architectural Technology from MIT in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
World Solutions: Autodesk® Revit® for Facility Lifecycle Management
Steven Segarra, CTO ARCHIBUS, Inc.
Organizations can achieve great efficiencies by using Autodesk Revit software to create intelligent models for facility management. However, organizations looking to do so face a daunting number of questions to answer: What standards have to be in place before the project starts? What is the cost of
rmation Modeling (BIM) and the expected return? What is the correct level of detail for the model? Who originates the data and what is the information flow? How do you survey data on existing buildings? How do you check the accuracy? And, how do you search across hundreds of models in a campus to obtain practicable business results?
To find the answers, this class reviews the challenges, solutions, and outcomes of three realprojects that used Revit models and ARCHIBUS® for facility management: a 200,000-squareconstruction project at a Fortune 500 company, a 1,000,000-square-foot renovation at a U.S. University,
square-meter survey of a Chinese University serving 55,000 students.
this class, you will be able to:
Execution Plan for lifecycle management
size your level of detail and give estimates of BIM project costs
Use successful patterns of BIM and commissioning data flow
Revit, COBIE, ARCHIBUS and other tools for lifecycle management
the chief technology officer at ARCHIBUS, Inc., which provides real estate,
infrastructure, and facility management software 3 million users working in 17 languages.
received his degree in Architecture and Architectural Technology from MIT in Cambridge,
World Solutions: Autodesk® Revit® for Facility
software to create intelligent models for facility management. However, organizations looking to do so face a daunting number of questions to answer: What standards have to be in place before the project starts? What is the cost of
rmation Modeling (BIM) and the expected return? What is the correct level of detail for the model? Who originates the data and what is the information flow? How do you survey data on
across hundreds of
To find the answers, this class reviews the challenges, solutions, and outcomes of three real-world square-foot new
foot renovation at a U.S. University, meter survey of a Chinese University serving 55,000 students.
Revit, COBIE, ARCHIBUS and other tools for lifecycle management
provides real estate,
languages. He
received his degree in Architecture and Architectural Technology from MIT in Cambridge,
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Introduction The information in this lecture comes from real-world case studies from some of our most
forward-looking customers. These thought leaders have been very generous in documenting
their observations and experience, and I appreciate this chance to share their "lessons
learned" with a larger audience.
The specific case studies are these.
• Wuhan University, a 55,000-student university located in Hubei China, about to double
its size and needing a complete space inventory of a 2.6 million sqM campus.
• Unum Insurance, a Fortune 500 Company located in Tennessee, Massachusetts,
California, and South Carolina undertaking a mixture of new construction and
renovation projects using BIM models.
• A premier technical college located in Cambridge, Massachusetts undergoing a
1,000,000 sqft renovation of its main campus buildings entirely using BIM models.
Wuhan University
Challenges Recently merged with the University of Hydraulic & Electrical Engineering, Hubei Medical
University, and Wuhan University of Survey & Mapping
Strategic plan dictates that the university will rapidly double in size from 55,000 students to
110,000 students.
Must catalog 2.6 million sqM (28 million sqft) in 6 months.
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Approach
• Define rigorous standards and level of detail for work in all environments.
• Use a large number of university students working in parallel to catalog existing space in
AutoCAD.
• Leverage Revit BIM models for newer construction
• Combine results in a "big BIM" framework -- ARCHIBUS -- to get integrated, apples-to-
apples space inventory information on the entire campus
• Implement space chargeback for space use back to departments to improve stewardship
of existing space resources
Ballpark Costs $0.03 per sqft
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Unum Insurance
Challenges Must document 4 million sqft with a positive ROI for the BIM investment
Must integrate new buildings with existing inventory
Want to pre-commission new buildings so that space planning and building operations staff are
operating on day 1
Approach
For new construction, flow BIM information through three different models:
• Building Information Model – The design model.
• Building As-Built Model – The as-built that comes from the contractor.
• Building Occupancy and Operations Model – The model that you use for lifecycle
management.
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For new construction, flow data from field management tools like Vela through Navisworks to
the IWMS system, ARCHIBUS.
For new construction, make certain that all graphics, such as BIM models, data such as
equipment schedules, and documents such as
manuals end up linked via the "big BIM" framework, ARCHIBUS.
For renovation, scan the building and develop a Revit model to the Building Occupancy and
Operations Model level of detail.
Keep existing space documented in AutoCAD.
Ballpark Costs $2.50 to $10 per sqft for new construction (depending on what you include as design vs. pure
BIM costs)
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r new construction, flow data from field management tools like Vela through Navisworks to
For new construction, make certain that all graphics, such as BIM models, data such as
equipment schedules, and documents such as commissioning checklists and equipment
manuals end up linked via the "big BIM" framework, ARCHIBUS.
For renovation, scan the building and develop a Revit model to the Building Occupancy and
Operations Model level of detail.
documented in AutoCAD.
$2.50 to $10 per sqft for new construction (depending on what you include as design vs. pure
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r new construction, flow data from field management tools like Vela through Navisworks to
For new construction, make certain that all graphics, such as BIM models, data such as
commissioning checklists and equipment
For renovation, scan the building and develop a Revit model to the Building Occupancy and
$2.50 to $10 per sqft for new construction (depending on what you include as design vs. pure
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� 0.35 / sqft Vela field management
� 0.25 / sqft Multivista field-photo service
$0.30 per sqft for renovation (at the Building Occupancy and Operations Model level of detail).
American University
Challenges Document new renovation in Revit
Speed work for drafting staff maintaining Building Occupancy and Operations Models.
Integrate results from both AutoCAD (for 11.5 M sqft) and Revit (for 1M sqft).
Produce consistent, geo-referenced output for GIS work for visualization, master planning, and
zoning.
Approach
Use DISTO laser scanner to capture space and create Revit BIM model at the Building
Occupancy and Operations level of detail.
Connect Revit directly to ARCHIBUS to synch BIM model and "big BIM" IWMS framework.
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To speed updates, use one BIM model per floor (similar to the manner in which the university has one AutoCAD plan per floor). Link BIM models into buildings or campus scale visualizations at need.
Use ARCHIBUS to integrate the geo-referenced survey plan, the Revit floor plans, and the AutoCAD floor plans to obtain an integrated space inventory and output consistent GIS data.
Case Study Take Aways • Get to “big BIM”
• See all possibilities
• Start from the desired business result and work back
• Focus on the process more than on the technology
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BIM-Execution Plans Your BIM projects start and end with your BIM Execution Plan. The plan sets out:
• The defensible, high-value business goals you have for using BIM data
• The elements of information you need for achieving those business goals, and how they
flow from one stakeholder to another
Standards need a system to enforce them. A "big BIM" platform provides a platform for BIM
execution. All stakeholders can interact within the "big BIM" integration framework, flow
communications without retyping, execute quality control procedures, and flow information into
and out of BIM models automatically.
Your Business Goals Your business goals are the key drivers for organizing your project and provide an essential
means of measuring success.
The objective of a BIM project isn't to use BIM. The objective is to drive your organization's
primary mission. If you are a university, that's educating students. If an automobile factory, that's
making cars. If a healthcare facility, it's curing the ill. There are many follow-on benefits for
having rich hand-off information from design, and clearly cataloging the design and construction
information carefully for future use is a must. However, accurate, consistent, and relevant
information does not come for free, does not meet the quality bar without explicit oversight, and
does not stay up-to-date without a cost. If you enumerate your business goals up-front, you
ensure that you are incurring that cost for a defensible purpose.
For that reason, when your BIM Execution Plan includes a type of information, you should start
by evaluating the specific business functional goal that element supports.
High-value business goals for BIM hand-off data are:
• Commissioning, including hand off of as-builts, schedules, and documents to a
document management system
• Space management and planning
• Space chargeback to internal departments and external parties (insurance carriers,
government grants, tenants)
• On demand (reactive) and preventive maintenance of equipment
References for Integrating Your Business Goals with BIM For more information on business goals, you may wish to review the BIM Execution Planning
project at Pennsylvania State University (http://bim.psu.edu/Uses/default.aspx ) This project
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identified the high-value goals for BIM integration. The operational goals the project states are
essentially the ones stated here.
Other good references are the United States General Services Administration's GSA BIM
Guides, Series 02 - Spatial Program Validation and Series 08 - Facility Management
(http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/105075 ). These standards identify specific pieces of hand-
off data that the US government uses for its large-scale building program. The links below
discuss these government standards and how they affect the BIM to "big BIM" handoff.
Commissioning As operating costs in properly commissioned buildings are up to 15% lower than in non-
commissioned buildings, the commissioning process is a key focus for facility management.
Commissioning is often considered to be that single phase in the lifecycle of a building when it is
handed over to facility management. Commissioning is more effective, however, if it is seen as
a process that begins in design. The commissioning process is one of ensuring that a building
fulfills its stated function. As with any other analysis or review, the earlier the feedback from
commissioning, the less expensive it is to correct deficiencies, and the less work there is for all
stakeholders to meet the established quality bar.
"big BIM" provides a number of opportunities to enhance commissioning with BIM-enabled
tools.
Web publishing facilitates early review Design firms that use "big BIM" can automatically publish views of their BIM models, spaces,
and equipment to "big BIM", and commissioning agents can view them over the Web. This
review lets the commissioning agents give feedback early enough in the process that all
stakeholders can synchronize with less wasted effort.
• For instance, if the commissioning agent sees that rooms are numbered in a manner
suitable for an architectural schedule but not suitable for way-finding, the architect can
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change that numbering early in the process, and avoid deep confusion during project
handover.
• Similarly, if the commissioning agent finds that walls and columns objects aren't properly
categorized so that internal area boundaries calculate correctly to BOMA standards, the
architect can modify the object properties early on.
• Or, if the commissioning agent finds that equipment identifiers and types are not
appropriate for asset management or preventive maintenance uses, again, the design
team can synchronize early to the enterprise data standards with which the
commissioned elements need to conform.
Benefits of early review: Aside from speeding occupancy and commissioning, early review helps
ensure that the quality of the data meets the bar for lifecycle management. Early review saves
changes that are expensive and often impossible once the project gets close to construction.
Consistent Standards "big BIM" validates Revit model data to ensure consistent standards.
BIM Execution Plans often focus on defining what standards the handoff data must meet -- such
as space standards for chargeback or equipment standards for preventive maintenance. While it
is essential to define standards, doing so isn't sufficient. Unless the systems that you have
automatically enforce validation standards and error checking, the data is unlikely to meet the
customers' standards on handover. Towards that end, a "big BIM" framework will provide a
direct Web-based connection from Revit to the enterprise database so that as architects create
the data, "big BIM" can validate the data against the project standards
There are a number of benefist from using a "big BIM" framework for consistent standards:
Even if you use the built-in Revit Properties dialog to edit data, "big BIM" reacts to the data
change and performs validation in order to keep the model and the enterprise data in synch.
Document Repository You can use a "big BIM" Document Repository to link documents to multiple elements:
• Some organizations store links to documents -- such as links to equipment maintenance
procedures or shop drawings -- in the graphical building model itself or in a .zip file that
comes with a COBIE submission. "big BIM" provides an alternative, which is to use the
Web to upload documents directly to the "big BIM" document repository.
• In "big BIM", you can link documents not just to the building and equipment elements.
You can also link to commissioning checklists, preventive maintenance procedures,
regulations, schedules for permits and renewals.
Benefits of using the "big BIM" Document Repository:
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• Using "big BIM" lets your contractors and commissioning agents upload and review data
over the Web without needing to download and load large BIM models.
• Keeping the documents outside the model also helps keep the Revit graphical model
smaller and more manageable. "big BIM" still maintains the link directly to the elements
in the BIM model, so you never lose the links to the 3D design information. For instance,
if your contractors upload Equipment Standard and preventive maintenance information
over the Web, "big BIM" can automatically flow that Equipment Standard to all linked
equipment within the Revit model.
Specific Recommendations for Commissioning Projects "big BIM" can generate commissioning project checklists directly from the space and equipment
objects in Revit, providing a complete set of checklists for field verification.
In your BIM Execution Plan specify that:
• The architect will connect their design models to "big BIM" for wider review, and use the
enterprise graphics feature to allow Web-based review of both graphical and numeric
information for all stakeholders.
• The architect will use the "big BIM" validation picklists for space and equipment data to
ensure consistency.
• The equipment contractors will upload specifications, commissioning tests, and
certification documents to "big BIM".
• The equipment contractors will supply any schedule data, such as Equipment make,
model, or serial numbers or corrections to equipment manufacturers, via the Web in "big
BIM".
• The certification agents will review the design at preliminary concept design, final
concept design, and after design development to give feedback that will lower effort for
all stakeholders.
Space Management You can enable the space management, planning, and chargeback business functions by
specifying the following in your BIM Execution plan.
Area Elements: The BIM model will provide:
• External and Internal Gross area elements for each floor (in GSA BIM Guide terms this
is the "Full Floor Space").
• Room or Area elements for any area over 9 sq ft or 1 sq M.
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• Area elements will follow the ANSI/BOMA rules for their outlines.
Room Elements: The BIM model will:
• Number each room, vertical penetration or service area with room numbers appropriate
for wayfinding.
• Tag vertical penetrations and service areas with the proper vertical or service area
Room Category and Type.
• Tag rooms with the proper occupancy Category and Type.
• Tag rooms with the proper hierarchical Organization ID or Division and Department
assignment (if known).
The commissioning agent or facility management department will:
• Verify that the Room Category and Type information is populated with the categories for
proper space categorization (for example, for A21 chargeback if the organization is a
university).
• Verify that the organizational ID or Division and Department validating tables are
populated with current organizational codes.
With the information above, you can flow BIM models directly into the "big BIM" Space Inventory
& Performance, Personnel & Occupancy and Chargeback applications. You can also use the
backbone space information in all other "big BIM" applications, from hotelling and room
reservations to move management and maintenance.
The information above is the starting point. After hand-over, facility management becomes the
author of record for room category, type, and department assignment information.
Space Specifications for US Government Projects Projects developed for the US Government will instead follow the GSA BIM Guide
recommendations for categorizing space:
• Names. Rather than Category and Type, the model will use space Names. The GSA
publishes an approved list of names that map to space use types (GSA STAR Space
Type).
• Occupant Organization Name. Rather than Organization ID, the SA uses the Occupant
Organization Name.
• Zones. The GSA BIM Guide also specifies that the BIM model identify area elements for
any zone (e.g. security, HVAC, electrical, fire). You may wish to decide if you have good
use cases for this data. If you are implementing an application like Emergency
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Preparedness, then these will be of direct use. If you have no identified use for them,
you may wish to omit this requirement.
On Demand and Preventive Maintenance
• You can enable the on demand and preventive maintenance business functions by
specifying that the following properties are part of any BIM model delivered:
• Mark. The identification of the equipment for the equipment schedule. (in GSA BIM
Guide terms this is the Equipment Identification).
• Equipment Code. The asset number used to track the equipment number in its
lifecycle. This is either the ID from your asset management system or the serial number.
(in GSA BIM Guide terms, this is the Equipment Primary Key.)
• Building, Floor, and Room Code. The room in which the equipment item resides, if
any. (in GSA BIM Guide terms, this is the Space Primary Key.)
• Equipment Standard. This is the class of equipment. The Equipment Standard
connects the equipment item to its maintenance manuals and PM Procedures and
Steps. This value is database-driven, meaning that if a contractor or facility enters the
Equipment Standard, that takes precedence.
The information above mainly the graphical asset to the database record, as either the
contractor (during commissioning) or facilities department (during operation) is the
source of record for the equipment details and maintenance information.