Using BIM with Maximo Real Estate and Facilities

Building Information Modeling is an industry representation of a building that is used during the design and build phases of building construction. The data model provides detailed information in its attributes to describe the infrastructure of a building. The use of data models is becoming more frequent by contractors and is part of the turnover of a building to the owner. A model that is provided at turnover is generally referred to as the “as built” state of the building.

Building owners who are commissioning a building into production need the information in this model to perform facilities management. The process of loading the information into your maintenance products, such as IBM® Maximo® Real Estate and Facilities, is costly, time-consuming, and may introduce errors. The Maximo Real Estate and Facilities BIM support allows you to load data from a Revit model into Maximo Real Estate and Facilities to begin the process of maintaining the building. This state is referred to as “as maintained”.

When the data is imported, Maximo Real Estate and Facilities provides 3D visualization of the full building model in context with the imported data. This improves the efficiency of the maintenance, work planning, and execution process. Finally, changes made during operations may be synchronized with the model.