A BIM-Enabled FM Concept and Its Effects on the Preparation of the Tendering Process for a General Contractor

Master's Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Engineering - Civil Engineering, grade: 2,3, Technical University of Berlin, language: English, abstract: This case study investigated a BIM-enabled FM concept within a construction project, which took place during the phase of the tendering preparation. The study asked for the requirements and preconditions in the concept, why they have been defined and examined their effects on the tendering preparation. Next to eight use cases, several necessities regarding the future O&M software, like a BCF support or the compatibly with certain software formats, it was found that the dealing with the integration of BIM in FM, disclosed inefficient customer processes and documents. As a highlight an efficient, risk minimizing documentation process, is described. The web-based process uses a plant classification code, to automatically link uploaded handover documents with corresponding model elements and offers the possibility to continuously perform the handover. The process is seen as a good possibility to increase the handover quality and to reduce the associated risk resulting out of inadequate and lacking documentations.