BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM) ADOPTION - MANAGEMENT PEFORMANCE IN HEALTH CARE DELIVERY



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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REFERENCES
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