The Smart Estate: Collaborative Working with Bim Platforms

The Smart Estate

Bring your estate management methods into the future with this accessible guide

Building information modeling, or BIM, is a catch-all term for a wide array of tools and processes for creating digital representations of buildings or building components. These tools have been widely embraced for use in the construction phase of projects, but their potential has only begun to be realized in facility management and maintenance, even though these account for 85% of costs in the life cycle of a building. Organizations controlling diverse estates with multiple buildings of varying ages stand to benefit enormously from a BIM-informed approach to estate management.

The Smart Estate outlines such an approach and its potential to improve facility and estate management. Emphasizing practical applications, it moves beyond the project delivery stage to focus on the much longer -- and costlier -- period of building operation and maintenance. The result is a thorough and accessible guide to generating collaborative, BIM-informed methods.

The Smart Estate readers will also find:

• Case studies and real-world scenarios illustrating best practices
• Detailed discussion particularly suited to the needs of large-scale or public-sector organizations
• Detailed step-by-step guide to developing a BIM-informed approach to a given asset portfolio

The Smart Estate is ideal for professionals in construction management and facilities management, as well as for advanced students and professionals in all construction related disciplines.

Jason Challender is Director of Estates and Facilities at the University of Salford, a member of its Senior Leadership Team and Visiting Professor at the University of Bolton. He has over 30 years’ experience in procurement in a variety of major construction programmes and is a board member of the North West Construction Hub.

Henry Oti is a lecturer in civil engineering at the University of Bolton, where he teaches a communications technology module, introducing students to information modelling using emerging BIM methodology, and BIM applications in construction project management and environmental management.