Best practices

Integration and naming

• Integrate all Rooms you plan to integrate for all model files before you link spaces to rooms or directly integrate Revit Spaces with Maximo Real Estate and Facilities.
• For federated models, the IBM.ModelName value should be unique for each file in the set, and ideally, be descriptive of the role the file is playing in the model. For the primary file, IBM.ModelName and IBM.BuildingName can be the same.
• A gross area plan should be created for any level that will be integrated with Revit. Allow Revit to outline the exterior walls. If you subdivide the area plan into additional areas, ensure that the entire level is filled with areas.
• If area names are the same as room names, the auto-match can be used to link rooms to areas. If you expect to detach and reintegrate the model with any frequency, this will save work.
• If space names are the same as room names, the auto-match can be used to link rooms to spaces. If you expect to detach and reintegrate the model with any frequency, this will save work.
• Use a Navisworks model in the Maximo Real Estate and Facilities viewer to be able to display and select rooms.

Spaces

When assets are contained within a Maximo Real Estate and Facilities space, it is highly desirable that the relationship is established when the asset is created by the Connector. This is problematic for two reasons:

• The model for most large projects is divided into several linked files. Both, Rooms and Spaces can map to Maximo Real Estate and Facilities spaces. Rooms typically appear in the architectural model, and Spaces in the primary MEP model. Subdiscipline models may not have spaces. Coordinating Rooms and Spaces across models requires a well-thought-out strategy.
• Room definitions are often not created for service spaces such as plenums, elevator shafts, and the like. Many components exist in these areas and may not have a logical association to a defined space although they are accessible and serviced from a space.

There are several strategies that can be used to address this. These include:

• Rigorously define all spaces such that there is a space definition for every volume in the model including external service areas.
• Copy space definitions into linked models. This makes the spaces available in those models. The Connector can link the spaces in each model to the Rooms used to create the Maximo Real Estate and Facilities space. Even though the copied space has a different internal identifier in each model, Assets in linked spaces are Integrated into Maximo Real Estate and Facilities using the identity of the original room.
• Allow components to default to floor or facility references.

It is expected that most models will use a combination of these approaches.