Discussion
of Strategies
For the purpose of accomplishment of establishing the
relationship between BIM adoption and enhancement of facility management
performance in health care delivery, the following strategies should be taken.
Ensure better coordination between design, construction and operations. Determine
cost savings derived by implementing BIM. Invest in education and training or
hiring outside help.
Accept available standard such as CAD standard, Ominclass
e.t.c Building data is entered into a model so threat it can be analyzed and
the facility can be modified as necessary. BIM whom properly used help
stakeholders make decision and allows or takes into account impotent life cycle
cost determination.
Discussion
of Theoretical Framework on Strength and Weakness as it Applies to the Study
BIM involves representing a design as combination of
objects–vague and undefined, generic or product specifics, solid shapes or
void-space oriented (like the shape of a room) that carry their geometry,
relation and attributes. BIM design tools allow for extracting different views
from a building model for drawing, production and other uses. These different
views are automatically consistent being based on a single definition of each object
instance. BIM’s software also defines objects parametrically, that is the
object are defined as parameters and relation to other object, so that if a
related object is amended, dependent ones will automatically also change. Each
model element can carry attributes for selecting and ordering them
automatically, providing cost estimate and as well as material tracking and
ordering.
For the professionals involved in a
project, BIM enables a virtual information model to be handed from the design
team (architects, surveyors, civil, structural and building service engineers)
to the main contactors, and subcontractors and then an to the owner/operator.
Each professional add discipline –specific knowledge to the single shared
model. This reduces information losses that traditionally occurred when a new
team takes ownership of the project and provides more extensive information to
owners of complex structure Liu,xuesong and Akinci, Bincu (2009).
The weakness as it applies to this
studying is the difficulty in hiring trained staff and training hours required.
In view of this most engineers, contractors and owners are not using BIM
software yet in Nigeria.
Discussion
of the Reviewed Literature, Soundness of Methodology, Result and
Identification of gap in Knowledge
With the resent economic down turn, many firm have
been hesitant to change their business structure and strategies and spend time
and resources to transition to BIM. The learning curve can be relatively steep
when this transaction is made, but the effort may result in producing higher
quality deliverable, extending the services offering of the business and
increasing business opportunities. A host of global organization are
championing the development of interoperability standards and the advancement
of BIM on both public and private projects. The adoption of Industry Foundation
Classes (IFC) and other studies such as Cobie are greatly enhancing the
capabilities of BIM and its inherent collaborative process.
BIM software and processes have involve
to allow new way of collaboration, work sharing, and virtual design
capabilities owners and add visibility to the overall design and construction
process. With this added visibility and up front understanding of a projects
detained characteristics building owners and operators are realizing that the
life cycle cost of a building can be significantly reduced.
It is recommend that organization in
building industries and facility management should invest in education and
training for effective man power development in the area of building
information modeling.
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