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Building Information Modelling in Facility Management of Public Buildings : a Case Study of Public Hospital

Seyrfar, Abolfazl | 2017

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 50301 (09)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Civil Engineering
  6. Advisor(s): Alvanchi, Amin
  7. Abstract:
  8. Purpose: The government owns a majority of healthcare infrastructures in Iran. Annual budget assigned to the hospitals and other parts of the healthcare system constitutes a significant portion of the country’s total budget. Despite the huge money spent, and regardless of recent improvements made to the healthcare system, still Iranian’s satisfaction level from public hospitals is low. However, improving complex and congested facility and utility systems of hospital buildings, supporting various delicate hospital services, can play an important role in both reducing hospital costs and enhancing quality level of services provided. Methodology: So far, use of various advantages building information modeling (BIM) offers to the hospitals’ FM systems has been neglected in the country. In this research, we have investigated BIM capabilities public hospitals can adopt by studying healthcare system conditions and conducting a case study on FM system of HashemiNejad hospital in Tehran, Iran. Findings: As a result, potential improvements BIM can bring to the hospital’s FM system, in regard to the budget constraints and educational level of FM team, are identified, their applicability is verified, and finally supporting organization is proposed. It is argued that even use of preliminary capabilities BIM models of hospital building offer can cause substantial improvements in the FM, such as shortening duration of FM activities, improving facility layouts, better communication, and coordination, facilitated training, and better emergency management. Originality: Proposed improvements can be applied to FM of public hospitals which include 75% of total hospitals of the country expecting substantial improvement
  9. Keywords:
  10. Hospital ; Building Information Modeling ; Facility Management ; Public Building ; Building Information Modeling ; Facility Management ; Public Building

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