The Smart Estate: Collaborative Working with Bim Platforms

Bring your estate management methods into the future with this accessible guide

Building information modeling, or BIM, is a catch-all term for a wide array of tools and processes for creating digital representations of buildings or building components. These tools have been widely embraced for use in the construction phase of projects, but their potential has only begun to be realized in facility management and maintenance, even though these account for 85% of costs in the life cycle of a building. Organizations controlling diverse estates with multiple buildings of varying ages stand to benefit enormously from a BIM-informed approach to estate management.

The Smart Estate outlines such an approach and its potential to improve facility and estate management. Emphasizing practical applications, it moves beyond the project delivery stage to focus on the much longer -- and costlier -- period of building operation and maintenance. The result is a thorough and accessible guide to generating collaborative, BIM-informed methods.

The Smart Estate readers will also find:

• Case studies and real-world scenarios illustrating best practices
• Detailed discussion particularly suited to the needs of large-scale or public-sector organizations
• Detailed step-by-step guide to developing a BIM-informed approach to a given asset portfolio

The Smart Estate is ideal for professionals in construction management and facilities management, as well as for advanced students and professionals in all construction related disciplines.

「智慧房地產」
「帶著這本易於理解的指南，將您的房地產管理方法帶入未來」

建築信息模型（BIM）是一個總稱，用於創建建築物或建築組件的數字表示的工具和流程。這些工具在項目的建設階段被廣泛應用，但在設施管理和維護方面的潛力才剛剛開始被實現，儘管這些方面在建築物的生命周期中佔據了85％的成本。掌控多樣化房地產並擁有多棟不同年齡的建築物的組織，將從基於BIM的房地產管理方法中獲益匪淺。

「智慧房地產」概述了這種方法及其改善設施和房地產管理的潛力。強調實際應用，它超越了項目交付階段，專注於更長且成本更高的建築運營和維護期間。結果是一本全面且易於理解的指南，用於生成協作的、基於BIM的方法。

「智慧房地產」讀者還將找到：
- 以案例研究和現實情境來說明最佳實踐
- 詳細討論特別適合大規模或公共部門組織需求的內容
- 詳細的逐步指南，用於開發基於BIM的方法來管理特定資產組合

「智慧房地產」非常適合建築管理和設施管理專業人士，以及所有與建築相關學科的高級學生和專業人士。

Jason Challender is Director of Estates and Facilities at the University of Salford, a member of its Senior Leadership Team and Visiting Professor at the University of Bolton. He has over 30 years' experience in procurement in a variety of major construction programmes and is a board member of the North West Construction Hub.

Akponanabofa Henry Oti is a lecturer in civil engineering at the University of Bolton, where he teaches a communications technology module, introducing students to information modelling using emerging BIM methodology, and BIM applications in construction project management and environmental management.

Jason Challender 是索爾福德大學的房地產和設施主管，也是該大學高級領導團隊的成員，並且是博爾頓大學的客座教授。他在採購領域擁有超過30年的經驗，參與過多個重大建設項目，並且是西北建設中心的董事會成員。

Akponanabofa Henry Oti 是博爾頓大學的土木工程講師，他教授通信技術模組，介紹學生使用新興的BIM方法論進行信息建模，以及在建設項目管理和環境管理中應用BIM技術。