A COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF FACILITY MANAGEMENT USING CONVENTIONAL AND BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING APPROACH; IN THE CASE OF ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF COMMERCE

Abstract

Facility management usually is complicated work needs that necessitate multidisciplinary activities and a large amount of data. While some of these requirements are met by some existing system building information modeling. Building information modeling is a method of digitally representing a building's functional and physical qualities and a holistic approach to designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining a building project as a collaborative process utilizing a single coherent digital modeling system. The objective of this research is to realize the benefits of Building information modeling in facility management by comparing conventional and Building information modeling approaches to facility management. facility management is typically a demanding and time-consuming job to assess, visualize struck, and document the facility's management operations, facility staffs typically use a paper or information system. This research is based on a comparison of conventional facility management with Building information modeling-based facility management approaches in the case of Addis Ababa University school of commerce. The study uses comparative research designs and both qualitative and quantitative data to explain and examine the findings to arrive at conclusions and recommendations. The descriptive type is used to describe the current Addis Ababa University School of commerce facility management approach and the research has been conducted Building information modeling sample model for the Addis Ababa University School of commerce to illustrate the building information modeling facility management approach. In the conventional facility management approach, the university facility management staff uses a corrective maintenance strategy and inspects the facility once a year, but they cannot predict the condition of the facility's elements, and the facility management unit lacks a database for facilities management purposes, as well as enough information recorded with different facility element histories such as maintenance history, warranty, replacement cost, lifetime, manufacturer information, job-related to the element, and so on. they also don't have any general building operation and maintenance guides that are specific to sustainability and energy, they don't use any information management system for the facility, and they don't analyze the facility's entire life cycle cost, space, energy efficiency, carbon or anything like that; instead, maintenance is done based on the occurrence of a defect. Whereas the Building information modeling facility management approach uses a preventive maintenance strategy. There is an information management system, database with relevant and important data on the facility element, space management, visualization techniques, energy analysis, LCC analysis, and carbon analysis as well as that can predict the condition of each facility element. In principle, the BIM FM strategy enables facility managers to make informed decisions regarding all FM operations throughout the lifecycle of the building. As a whole, the building information modeling Approach improves facility management more than the conventional facility management method.