Volume 8 • Issue 1 • PP: 09–16 • 2024
Developing a Model to Improve the Efficiency of Maintenance Management for Service Buildings Using BIM and Power BI: A Case Study
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Maintenance management has a major role in maintaining service buildings and improving their performance. Therefore, in this research, building information modeling (BIM) was applied to one of the university buildings to obtain detailed and accurate information about the building’s components and link maintenance data to each element of the building through the capabilities and flexibility of the Revit program, which is reflected in the It is evident in the ability to add parameters to the elements and thus sort the maintenance data according to the elements of the building and model it to turn into information that can be extracted, analyzed and explored for the implicit knowledge in it through business intelligence techniques, to understand it and make appropriate decisions, which is reflected in the accuracy of maintenance work and achieving the best quality of service at the lowest cost. . Relying on the descriptive and analytical approach, by describing the reality of maintenance management in the Maintenance Department, describing the architectural maintenance work that took place within a period of 5 years (2019-2023), and conducting an accurate description of all the elements of the building to create a BIM model for the building of the College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. Then link the maintenance data with the operational data of the model by entering the maintenance parameters on the architectural elements of the building (doors - walls - windows - false ceilings - floors) and taking advantage of what Revit technology provides in creating tables specific to the building, and exporting them to Excel and then to the Power program. Bi, which provides the ability to analyze data, identify the most important maintenance problems and the maintenance cost for each item, determine the proportions of implemented and non-implemented items, determine the reasons for non-implementation, and measure the performance of workshops and specialists. In addition to achieving a spatial and visual link between the most important problems and their architectural spaces, predicting an approximate budget for future architectural maintenance in the coming year, and evaluating the building elements by giving technical marks to determine the periodic maintenance items for the next year for the door element, studyinMaintenance Management; Service buildings; Building information modeling BIM; The
university; Business Intelligence BIg the expected cost of maintaining the doors, and determining the necessary materials to be supplied for the coming year.
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