From Construction to Facility Management — Core COBie Yield

Construction professionals are using BIM (Building Information Modeling) and COBie (Construction Operations Building Information Exchange) for facility management. Moving information faster across the board can substantially reduce work processing duration for projects. This work order can be exported from a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS). BIM can be used for wide scale applications in Facility Management or FM. This includes various services like 6D BIM for Facilities Management; Project Close-out BIM, As-Built Modeling, Intelligent Database Implementation, and more.

Why is COBie important today?

As today’s buildings are pretty sophisticated, the requirement to keep track and move them across all the stakeholders is very important. Using this data, owners and all the stakeholders can accurately pinpoint building assets & identify issues in operations. Project participants or owners need to keep a perfect track of the inventory and the cost associated for repair, maintenance and replacement. The general contractor is responsible for handing over the information to the facility manager before it is deemed efficient and safe to live in. Inefficient tracking of assets can significantly incur massive unnecessary costs, additional time, and reduce reliability in terms of project scope. Thus, BIM is used very early on in the project life cycle to collate data, and use this data for models, drawings, RFI’s, and various other documents that need to be stored in a central repository. The integration of COBie makes it easier for construction individuals to collate and handover contract data to the owner.

What’s inside a COBie sheet?

In a typical COBie document, data is taken from various sources like Bills of Quantities (BOQ), various specifications, and drawings. As the construction progresses, it needs to be updated and then handed over to the client. This actually does not happen in legacy document formats. Thus, it needs to be collated in the form of a digital file, and shared between various stakeholders in a project. With COBie in place, project stakeholders can garner better cost and value for the project. However, team members should make sure to understand the core concept of COBie, there is times when this format is overestimated and defined as a complete BIM model. It is not so! It is just one part of the process.

Benefits of COBie

The idea of COBie works on the principle of having a central spreadsheet that contains comprehensive information about a building. As discussed earlier, COBie data is pulled into a single universal format at various stages of the project. This format is an open-standard format that is used to record data from multiple software. This increases stakeholder collaboration and better understanding of the project lifecycle.

It contains various parameters of the facility like floors, spaces, equipment, and various other documents. A COBie can be an XML report of the complete building model that is generated with software applications without the requirement of buying very expensive software.

Some of the benefits of COBie are –

  • The cost of data management cost is reduced for Facility Management
  • It also lowers cost of information movement as all the stakeholders stick to one standard
  • Thorough checkup of data before the facility is handed over to the owner
  • Maintenance service contracts can be less expensive giving greater probability for bids
  • Highlight greater facility features with accuracy

Facilities need the power of COBie to streamline operations when handing over all the information from the construction phase to facility management. This is highly important from an owner’s perspective as they have digital documentation of every bit of data that has been collected and communicated during the progress of the project.

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Source: https://blog.magnasoftbim.com/from-construction-to-facility-management-core-cobie-yield/

Building Information Modeling (BIM) provides design implementation while facilitating collaboration and the exchange of information between various stakeholders

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