Papers by Bjørn Arild Godager
IEEE Access, 2021
The construction industry lacks a comprehensive and holistic way of utilizing Building Informatio... more The construction industry lacks a comprehensive and holistic way of utilizing Building Information Modeling (BIM) throughout a building's life-cycle, where the transition to Asset Management (AM) and Facility Management (FM) is particularly lacking. Enterprise BIM (EBIM) is an emerging, unexplored, holistic organizational concept that is designed to support and optimize business management throughout the entire life-cycles of buildings and infrastructure. However, current understanding and implementation of EBIM is rare. To fix this gap in knowledge, this paper defines the EBIM concept and assesses associated perspectives from research and practice in order to integrate BIM more strongly into the enterprise's core processes and other needs at different levels within the organization and externally. To achieve a higher and more efficient utilization of building data, however, EBIMs need to develop a clear life-cycle-based information management strategy, including coordination and communication between all stakeholders. The paper highlights and discusses the importance of both available and missing standards related to the effective implementation of EBIM. Several existing open standards have been identified to help strengthen the EBIM concept. The paper identifies a need to develop standards to integrate BIM and IoT (the Internet of Things) and standards that can handle both structured and unstructured data. The authors have conducted a wide-ranging review of research, practice and existing standards and considers today's potential for using EBIM, as well as discusses existing challenges and future research needs. Furthermore, the EBIM concept is contextualized by providing a case study with focus on cleaning. This study identifies a need to develop best practices in interdisciplinary collaborative projects. Such practical implementation requires integrated and standardized information and technology management and the exploitation of the available technologies in interdisciplinary interaction with those involved in the various processes and the flow of information throughout the life-cycle. INDEX TERMS BIM server, building information modeling (BIM), digital maturity, digital twin, EBIM (Enterprise BIM), enterprise modeling, facility management, operation.
Journal of Information Technology in Construction
Enterprise BIM aims to optimise business management and asset management throughout the life-cycl... more Enterprise BIM aims to optimise business management and asset management throughout the life-cycle of buildings and infrastructures. This follow-up study of the Enterprise BIM concept analyses the potential for international standardisation, mainly focusing on the contribution of the ISO 19650 standard series to further development. The study explores how key ISO 19650 concepts related to different types of information requirements, levels of information need, and common data environments can help strengthen Enterprise BIM. As such, the paper presents an in-depth analysis of how the ISO 19650 series and several adjacent standards can provide a further means of facilitating information management within the Enterprise BIM concept. The study uses a customised Zachman framework by adding the necessary perspectives from ISO 19650 and Enterprise BIM. The paper adds increased knowledge related to understanding the standard series parts 1, 2 and 3 and showing how they can be implemented in...
IEEE Access, 2021
The construction industry lacks a comprehensive and holistic way of utilizing Building Informatio... more The construction industry lacks a comprehensive and holistic way of utilizing Building Information Modeling (BIM) throughout a building's life-cycle, where the transition to Asset Management (AM) and Facility Management (FM) is particularly lacking. Enterprise BIM (EBIM) is an emerging, unexplored, holistic organizational concept that is designed to support and optimize business management throughout the entire life-cycles of buildings and infrastructure. However, current understanding and implementation of EBIM is rare. To fix this gap in knowledge, this paper defines the EBIM concept and assesses associated perspectives from research and practice in order to integrate BIM more strongly into the enterprise's core processes and other needs at different levels within the organization and externally. To achieve a higher and more efficient utilization of building data, however, EBIMs need to develop a clear life-cycle-based information management strategy, including coordination and communication between all stakeholders. The paper highlights and discusses the importance of both available and missing standards related to the effective implementation of EBIM. Several existing open standards have been identified to help strengthen the EBIM concept. The paper identifies a need to develop standards to integrate BIM and IoT (the Internet of Things) and standards that can handle both structured and unstructured data. The authors have conducted a wide-ranging review of research, practice and existing standards and considers today's potential for using EBIM, as well as discusses existing challenges and future research needs. Furthermore, the EBIM concept is contextualized by providing a case study with focus on cleaning. This study identifies a need to develop best practices in interdisciplinary collaborative projects. Such practical implementation requires integrated and standardized information and technology management and the exploitation of the available technologies in interdisciplinary interaction with those involved in the various processes and the flow of information throughout the life-cycle. INDEX TERMS BIM server, building information modeling (BIM), digital maturity, digital twin, EBIM (Enterprise BIM), enterprise modeling, facility management, operation.
This is the publisher's version originally published in "The 8th International Conferenc... more This is the publisher's version originally published in "The 8th International Conference Environmental Engineering, Selected Papers, May 19-20, 2011, Vilnius, Lithuania"(ISBN 978-9955-28-829-9). Reprinted with permission from Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Press “Technika” Vilnius.
ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2018
Abstract. The AEC–FM industry (Architecture/Engineering/Construction and Facilities Management) i... more Abstract. The AEC–FM industry (Architecture/Engineering/Construction and Facilities Management) is increasingly using different building information modeling (BIM) methodology to solve complex challenges. With help of Semantic WEB technology, product data models and other relevant information are increasingly linked to BIM models. The article discusses the challenges of existing BIM standards to meet future requirements, to fully utilize semantic technology. The article provides suggestions for further research, and it specifically calls for a more strategic research that can look a bit longer than just the challenges associated with various limited case projects. The article discusses whether existing BIM formats are able to meet future requirements, where the potential in the construction industry to fully utilize semantic web technology is difficult with today's BIM standards. Furthermore, it is suggested that previously developed SW resources should be gathered, then earlier...
The challenge is to decide how to design a building information model (BIM) to support building m... more The challenge is to decide how to design a building information model (BIM) to support building maintenance and development for existing buildings. Until now the main BIM focus has been related to new projects, and this study focus on different challenges when deciding to use BIM for both new and existing buildings. This paper is based on studies together with regional and hospital authorities, but should be relevant for other types of existing buildings as well.
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Papers by Bjørn Arild Godager