Developing a BIM-enabled building lifecycle management system for owners: Architecture and case scenario

Given the fragmented nature of the architecture, engineering, construction, and operation (AECO) industry, building lifecycle management (BLM) involves bringing together multidisciplinary teams and integrating lifecycle processes of buildings. Despite the increasing use of information technologies and software tools by property owners, several barriers in BLM implementations remain, such as information silos, low data interoperability, poor cross-party coordination, and the mismatch of existing commercial solutions and user requirements. To deal with these practical challenges, this study develops a BIM-enabled BLM system for property owners using a semi-custom approach. For this, a three-tier architecture of the BIM-enabled BLM system is designed. Next, the system is developed based on a real-life project in the Grid State of China. This case scenario verifies the system and further confirmed the proposed three-tier architecture. The developed architecture and system have theoretical and practical implications for property owners' BLM implementations. This proposed semi-custom approach provides guidelines for AECO industry digital transformation.

Automated summary

Building lifecycle management involves bringing together multidisciplinary teams and integrating lifecycle processes of buildings, facing barriers such as information silos and low data interoperability. This study proposes a BIM-enabled BLM system for property owners using a semi-custom approach, providing practical guidelines for the digital transformation of the AECO industry.