TrackIntermediate
BIM for operations
For BIM people who serve owners and facilities teams: what operations actually need, how to write asset information requirements, tags and registers that work, COBie that loads into a CAFM, maintenance data, soft landings, keeping the asset information model alive under ISO 19650-3, and an honest look at digital twins. Each lesson ends with a practical exercise.
3 chapters · 8 lessons · about 48 minutes
Finish all 8 lessons to download a certificate of completion.
Chapter 1. What operations need
0/2 done- 1.1 What facilities teams actually needFacilities teams don't need the design model. They need to know what they have, where it is, how to maintain it and what to do when it breaks, from the first day.
- 1.2 Writing asset information requirementsGood AIR are short, specific and testable: a list of maintainable asset types, a few properties each, linked to decisions, with who provides them and when.
- Chapter recap
Chapter 2. Getting the data right
0/3 done- 2.1 Asset tags and registers that workOne unique tag per asset, the same on the label, in the model and in the maintenance system, built from a rule that matches the owner's register.
- 2.2 COBie that loads into the CAFMA COBie file can pass every check and still fail to load. Test-import early, map to the operator's structure, and fix data at the source.
- 2.3 From asset data to maintenance workEvery maintainable asset becomes recurring work through its maintenance regime. Getting the asset type and regime right is what turns a register into a maintenance plan.
- Chapter recap
Chapter 3. Living with the data
0/3 done- 3.1 Soft landings in practiceInvolve the people who will run the building from briefing to the first years of use. BS 8536:2022 sets it out; BIM gives operators something concrete to review.
- 3.2 Keeping the asset information model aliveHandover isn't the end of information management. Under ISO 19650-3, every repair, replacement, inspection and minor work is a trigger that must update the AIM.
- 3.3 Digital twins, honestlyA digital twin is reliable asset data connected to live building data, used to make decisions. Most of the value comes from the first steps, long before a 3D platform.
- Chapter recap
Your learning route
Each station is a chapter; completed lessons are ticked.
- 1What operations needChapter 1 · 2 lessons
- 2Getting the data rightChapter 2 · 3 lessons
- 3Living with the dataChapter 3 · 3 lessons