Knowledge Management and Information Tools for Building Maintenance and Facility Management

Knowledge Management and Information Tools for Building Maintenance and Facility Management
Author: Cinzia Talamo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2015-10-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319239597

This book describes the latest methods and tools for the management of information within facility management services and explains how it is possible to collect, organize, and use information over the life cycle of a building in order to optimize the integration of these services and improve the efficiency of processes. The coverage includes presentation and analysis of basic concepts, procedures, and international standards in the development and management of real estate inventories, building registries, and information systems for facility management. Models of strategic management are discussed and the functions and roles of the strategic management center, explained. Detailed attention is also devoted to building information modeling (BIM) for facility management and potential interactions between information systems and BIM applications. Criteria for evaluating information system performance are identified, and guidelines of value in developing technical specifications for facility management services are proposed. The book will aid clients and facility managers in ensuring that information bases are effectively compiled and used in order to enhance building maintenance and facility management.

AI-empowered Knowledge Management

AI-empowered Knowledge Management
Author: Soumi Majumder
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2022-02-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811903166

This book is focused on AI-empowered knowledge management to improve processes, implementation of technology for providing easy access to knowledge and the impact of knowledge management to promote the platform for generation of new knowledge through continuous learning. The book discusses process of knowledge management which includes entirety of the creation, distribution, and maintenance of knowledge to achieve organizational objectives. It also covers knowledge management tools which enable and enhance knowledge creation, codification, and transfer within business firms thereby reducing the burden of work and allowing application of resources and effective usage towards practical tasks. An immense growth of artificial intelligence in business organizations has occurred and AI-empowered knowledge management practice is leading towards growth and development of the organization.

Building Information Modeling

Building Information Modeling
Author: Marie Bagieu
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2024-02-13
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1789451108

This book presents how Building Information Modeling (BIM) and the use of shared representation of built assets facilitate design, construction and operation processes (ISO 19650). The modeling of public works data disrupts the art of construction. Written by both academics and engineers who are heavily involved in the French research project Modélisation des INformations INteropérables pour les INfrastructues Durables (MINnD) as well as in international standardization projects, this book presents the challenges of BIM from theoretical and practical perspectives. It provides knowledge for evolving in an ecosystem of federated models and common data environments, which are the basis of the platforms and data spaces. BIM makes it possible to handle interoperability very concretely, using open standards, which lead to openBIM. The use of a platform allows for the merging of business software and for approaches such as a Geographic Information System (GIS) to be added to the processes. In organizations, BIM meets the life cycles of structures and circular economy. It is not only a technique that reshapes cooperation and trades around a digital twin but can also disrupt organizations and business models.

Invitations to Tender for Facility Management Services

Invitations to Tender for Facility Management Services
Author: Cinzia Talamo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2018-12-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030040097

This book deals with Invitations to Tender (ITTs) for the provision of Facility Management (FM) services. It presents a framework to support companies in preparing clear, comprehensive and effective ITTs, focusing on such key aspects as: organizational structures, tools and procedures for managing information, allocation of information responsibilities, procedures for services monitoring and control, quality policies, and risk management. It discusses and analyzes a range of basic terms and concepts, procedures, and international standards concerning the Tendering Process, as well as the contents of ITTs, which should represent the translation of information needs into requirements related to: the client’s goals, main categories of information to deal with, expected organization of information, modalities of reporting and control, and level of knowledge to be reached. A further major focus is on potential key innovation scenarios concerning current FM practice, such as Sustainable Procurement, Building Information Modeling (BIM), Big Data and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, highlighting both the possible benefits and the possible risks and implications that could negatively affect the quality of FM service provision if not properly treated within the ITT. The book will be of interest to real estate owners, demand organizations and facility managers, enhancing their ability to prepare, interpret and/or critically analyze ITTs.

Best Practices in Manufacturing Processes

Best Practices in Manufacturing Processes
Author: Jorge Luis García Alcaraz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 558
Release: 2018-09-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319991906

This book reports the best practices that companies established in Latin America are implementing in their manufacturing processes in order to generate high quality products and stay in the market. It lists the technologies, production and administrative philosophies that are being implemented, presenting a collection of successful cases of studies from Latin America. The book describes how the tools and techniques are being integrated, modified and combined to create new technical resources for assisting the decision making process for better economic performance in manufacturing companies. The efforts deployed for assisting the transformation of raw materials into products and services are described. The authors explain the main key success factors or drivers for success of each tool, technique or hybrid combination approach applied to solve manufacturing problems.

Green Approaches in Building Design and Management Practices

Green Approaches in Building Design and Management Practices
Author: Nazly Atta
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2023-12-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3031467604

This book examines green transition and circular economy in the fields of building design and Real Estate management. By outlining windows for seizing the opportunity to integrate circular approaches in current building practices, the book provides information tools to support building stakeholders (e.g. building designer and managers, manufacturers, Real Estate owners, maintenance operators, facility managers, etc.) in: (i) understanding circular re-strategies (e.g. reuse, remanufacturing, repurposing, etc.), the related requirements and the pre-conditions for their implementation within building design and management practices; (ii) reviewing design approaches at the product and building scale, also highlighting new circularity-related contents for the Briefing Documents; (iii) developing circular organizational and contract models for the procurement of Facility Management services, also integrating new circularity-related contents in Invitations to Tenders (ITTs); and (iv) assessing the quality and the effectiveness of circular practices, also highlighting circularity performance metrics and indicators in the context of corporate sustainability reporting.

Internet of Things for Facility Management

Internet of Things for Facility Management
Author: Nazly Atta
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2021-01-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 303062594X

This book proposes strategies for FM services optimization and innovation, based on innovative models of IoT application and big data management within FM processes, able to support FM stakeholders in: orienting and managing big data flows and their sources (sensor, RFID, etc.); changing FM services demand/offer and developing new approaches to FM agreements; drawing new supply chains based on network approaches; and outlining new profiles of competences for FM stakeholders. The book demonstrates that FM stakeholders (e.g. Real Estate owners, FM providers, service suppliers, etc.) increasingly need new support tools for understanding the features of the current offer of innovative ICT solutions in order to become promoters of FM innovation, and it provides them with an analytical-procedural framework useful for defining and implementing IoT-based FM services.

Proceedings of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Annual Conference 2021

Proceedings of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Annual Conference 2021
Author: Scott Walbridge
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 653
Release: 2022-05-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811910294

This book comprises the proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering 2021. The contents of this volume focus on specialty conferences in construction, environmental, hydrotechnical, materials, structures, transportation engineering, etc. This volume will prove a valuable resource for those in academia and industry.