A Semantic Hybrid Scheme for Efficient Building Facilities Management

Maintaining and operating building facilities constitutes a substantial portion of the overall life-cycle costs, which, if not befittingly handled, can yield immoderate expenditures and a shortfall of financial resources. The evidence implies that building facilities are degrading due to inadequate knowledge of building facilities and fallacious management procedures. This paper proposed a building information modeling (BIM) framework to enhance the effectiveness of BIM open standards for facility management operations. The study expands to creating a comprehensively integrated framework that provides a paradigm apropos to employing BIM capacities that manage and retrieve operation and maintenance (O&M) data to engender a semantic repository of multiple existing building facilities and their peculiarities information. The proposed framework incorporates six chronological stages to ensure prime findings for the O&M phase and unerringly exhibit the distinctive attributes of the maintenance data paradigm. Facilities managers can employ the presented framework as a blueprint for implementing the proposed strategy for incorporation, exploitation, and handling of building facilities-based knowledge throughout the O&M phase into practice.