Open AccessBIM-BASED SPACE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE PHASE IN EDUCATIONAL OFFICE BUILDING
Author(s) -
Guoming Ma,
Song Xue,
Shanshan Shang
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of civil engineering and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1822-3605
pISSN - 1392-3730
DOI - 10.3846/jcem.2019.11565
Subject(s) - computer science , facility management , space (punctuation) , path (computing) , building information modeling , visualization , architectural engineering , simulation , engineering , artificial intelligence , operations management , business , marketing , scheduling (production processes) , programming language , operating system
Lists and floor plans have been widely adopted as space management tools for educational office buildings. However, the two-dimensional floor plans fail to present the indoor complexity, which hinders users from intuitively observingthe indoor equipment arrangements and adapting to the indoor environment within a short time. Meanwhile, insufficientresearch has been conducted on space management tools regarding building indoor navigation. A Building InformationModeling Space Management (BIMSM) system was proposed in this study based on BIM. This system is comprised of twocomponents, i.e. indoor space allocation management and indoor path navigation. The real-time space usage can be queried anduser demands may be matched with available space by applying the Space Usage Analysis (SUA) theory. After theestablishment of indoor maps, an improved A* algorithm is used to provide smooth navigation paths, and the visualizationof such paths can be provided in mobile terminals. The BIMSM system was applied in an office building in a university inShanghai, China. In this case study, the overall user satisfaction reached 91.6% by greatly reducing space arrangement failures. The time indoor navigation took outperformed that based on the traditional A* algorithm, with the search efficiencyincreasing 5.28%.