King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
College of Environmental Design
Architecture Engineering Department
ARE 520 Principles of Facility Management
Term Paper
Study BIM Impact on Outsourcing in Facility Operation &
Maintenance Activities
Instructor: Dr. Mohammed Hassanain
Student name: Abdulwahab Alqanas
ID: 202110470
Abstract:
outsourcing is a critical section in operation and maintenance activities therefore in in facility
management in general, and regarding that BIM technology has become trend currently in AEC
industry, this paper tries to spot light on its impact on FM & O&M from outsourcing perspective.
In order to achieve such a goal this paper uses literature review and survey with experts to study
impact of BIM on outsource selection criteria. Nonetheless, study shows that BIM has high impact
on cost and time schedule in O&M activities and low impact on safety of the facility and moderate
impact on variation order and waste products.
Introduction:
Background & motivation:
Architectural engineering or Building Engineering, is a major of science that deals with
engineering aspects in buildings, such as structure, construction, site management, mechanical,
electric, lighting, acoustic, safety & fire protection and energy efficiency. Architecture engineering
is one of unique fields that is strongly connected with all other types of engineering majors. In
addition, it is connected to human basic life directly, and its application is able to noticed easily.
However, this paper will spot light on major side of building life period, which is period of
operation and maintenance and ensuring good indoor quality for users, which is part of big segment
in architecture engineering, or also called facility management. A three major terms will be
repeated and connected to each other, or better said the relation between them will be identified,
these terms are BIM, outsourcing & tender. This guide will discuss the impact of BIM in tender
outsourcing while providing a service related to building operation and maintenance. Literature
review, surveys are the selected tool to get a conclusion and result.
Problem statement:
Tendering or bedding process in one of the most important steps in project life in general and in
project procurement particularly, but it doesn’t stop by the end of construction process of the
project, it continuous while the building is being operated, that maintaining, maintenance and
operation activities may require specialized service providers or contractors.
The aim of any contractor is to procure as many projects as he can with highest margin of profit
possible. But in the same time contractor need to provide a good price to be able to compete with
other contractors, otherwise he will lose the procurement. So, in order to win as much outsourcing
projects as possible, contractor should provide a good offer to the owner, this offer could be
represented as quality, cost, or time. Contractors nowadays are always searching for bedding
strategies, tool, and methods which make them able to persuade the stakeholders with the tender
document delivered, However, there is an international trend to use BIM in working, drawing, &
drafting, that it gave architects and engineers ability to avoid conflict between disciplines in the
building modeling. Using BIM is in a continuous increasing around the world, countries and
governments like Scotland start to manage their assets by BIM, and start use BIM strategy as
fundamental condition to be able to compete in tender in healthy building construction and while
building is being operated. Nevertheless, assuming that BIM would be an effective tool to model
the project and make strong base of concrete for design process, there should be an efficient
mechanism that would effectively invest BIM properties.
Goal:
This paper aims to study impact of BIM on outsource contractor selection for MEP operation and
maintenance activity.
Methodology:
This chapter will discuss the steps and process need to be accomplished to obtain the objectives of
this guide. There will be a detailed description over the method used to collect experts’ perspective
and analysis of the results, moreover, this chapter will discuss the framework design if the
questionnaire in order the produce outcome with minimum margin of error.
Nonetheless, in order to obtain the research goals this guide will depend on survey, literature
reviews.
Regarding that this study built on surveys, a pilot study required to be done in order to
improve the question quality, and make it able to reflect the reality in effective way. The pilot
study was applied on BIM experts, academic experts & facility mangers and operator, with
variety of experience range. Factors were listed to them with alternative ways of questions
for each of the nine criteria, and a space of adding and modifying and selecting was open for
them. Nonetheless, these factors as their terms was discussed in the previous chapter were as
listed:
1. Cost offered
2. Time scheduling
3. Operation & maintenance management
4. Facility Revenue
5. Data information quality
6. Safety
7. Communication at the built environment
8. Variation order
So, the goal of this paper basically is to find impact of BIM in these criteria, therefore, on
outsourcing in activities related to operation and maintenance in facilities. However, the
schedule below shows pilot sample and their details.
3- Literature Review: