This document discusses how building information modeling (BIM) can benefit facility management and maintenance. Some key points:
1) Facility lifecycle costs, such as maintenance and operations, account for 20-35% of total project costs, whereas initial construction costs only account for 10-25%. BIM can help reduce long-term facility costs.
2) Current facility management practices often rely on paper-based documentation, which is difficult to access, update, and share. This leads to inefficiencies and higher costs over the lifetime of the building.
3) BIM allows critical building data to be automatically transferred digitally to facility management systems. This saves significant time and money compared to manual data entry from