These action items addresses the common challenges faced by contractors/project delivery managers while utilising BIM for asset data capture activities in a large scale infrastructure project.
The action items seek to unify and consolidate the prescribed solutions mentioned in the Discussion section within different phases of the infrastructure project execution and encourages digitally integrated project completion for ease of asset handover.
Compile and verify the asset data list to be collected from the asset owner with respect to the BIM execution plan(BEP) of the contractor/constructor.
a. Coordination with the asset owner and early engagement is crucial to identify data needs for asset planning and maintenance.
Determine if the BEP can be changed to suit client’s asset data list without affecting scope and project requirements, then documentation can be shared and revised for project delivery team.
Identify BIM and non-BIM roles within the project to support asset data collection from design and as-built sources. Workflow will need to be setup for data collection for efficient manner.
Develop data quality checks and data drop points for field verification from relevant sources. Similarly, model verification process map needs to exist for data needs.
a. Coordination with the project BIM team is crucial to ensure that the parameters exist and can be monitored throughout project phases.
Agree on a method for field verified asset data migration into the CDE during the project and EAMS/CMMS at project handover with asset owners.
a. Coordination with the EAMS/CMMS administrator is vital for any data formatting and structure that may be a pre-requisite to the process.
Develop documentation and process map(including checklist) for wider brief of the project teams/departments during every stage while keeping assets owners informed.
a. Support from management and senior leaders to implement the digital strategy from design to commissioning and/or handover.
Early involvement of the end users of BIM(which likely are the asset owners and the O&M personnel) to provide extensive inputs at the conceptual design phase of the project to focus on the operations driven handover for asset data and associated information.
Central strategy is to create a nimble BIM Execution Plan (BEP) whereby the documentation is used to specify how the digital tool in the project can cater for asset data requirements and collection while keeping the BIM specifications.
Collaborative and alignment nature of asset data requirements would would poutline technical and non-technical roles within the project to support asset data collection within the BIM-favoured organisation structure; very much suitable for consortium based infrastructure projects.