Authors : Abbas M. Abd and Alaa S. Khamees
Abstract: Existing buildings and facilities contain relatively static data. The data supports the facility operations, occupancy management and project management on college campuses. The traditional data storage method is 2D system which is paper documents, CAD drawings or PDF files. The storage method system is fragmented and inefficient when it comes to retrieving and updating the parameters of a piece of the facility or equipment. BIM is an effective carrier to host, exchange and upgrade the information. Traditional documentation method sometimes fails to serve in managing the development, rehabilitation and renovation of existing buildings. The lack of appropriate documents, change orders. To address the challenges of life-cycle management of buildings because of current documentation methods does not lend themselves toward managing the continuous changes to buildings. The researcher using one of BIM tools is Autodesk Revit for creating the recent document of case study.
Abbas M. Abd and Alaa S. Khamees, 2017. Configuring Updatable Documents Using BIM for Existing Buildings Instead of Previous Documents. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 12: 7422-7425.