BIM integration

Carry Building Information From Design Into Operations

The information needed to operate a building is produced during its design and construction. Most of it is lost at handover.

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The business problem

Handover delivers documents, not data

A project concludes with a hard drive of drawings, manuals and spreadsheets. The facilities team then rebuilds an asset register by walking the building, because nothing in that handover is in a form an operational system can consume. Two years of accumulated design knowledge becomes a folder nobody opens.

Handover delivered as unstructured documentsAsset registers rebuilt manually after occupationEquipment data re-keyed from PDFs and spreadsheetsDesign intent lost to the operations team

The IntelliGrid approach

Structured handover into the operational model

Where BIM data is available, equipment records, locations, technical properties and maintenance requirements can be used to establish the asset register and location hierarchy directly — giving the operations team a usable starting point on day one rather than after a year of survey work.

Equipment and location data used to seed the registerTechnical properties retained against each assetDrawings linked to the assets they depictMaintenance requirements carried into PPM planning

Data carried across

What comes from BIM

Scope depends on the quality and structure of the model delivered. Support for specific standards and exchange formats is confirmed per project rather than assumed.

Equipment records

Asset identity, type and classification established from the model.

Location

Building, floor, zone and room placement for the location hierarchy.

Technical properties

Capacity, rating and specification retained on the asset record.

Drawings

Linked to the assets and systems they represent.

Maintenance requirements

Manufacturer-recommended tasks and intervals feeding PPM plans.

Manufacturer information

Make, model and supplier detail for parts and warranty.

Workflow

Project to operations

STEP 1

Design

Model developed with equipment and space data.

STEP 2

Construction

As-built information captured against the model.

STEP 3

Handover

Structured data extracted for operational use.

STEP 4

Assets and locations established in IntelliGrid.

STEP 5

Operate

PPM, work orders and documents run from day one.

Business benefits

An operational asset register available at handover Survey effort reduced or avoided after occupation Design intent retained where operations can use it Drawings reachable from the asset rather than a folder PPM planning seeded from manufacturer requirements