PREPARES AEC BIM DELIVERABLES TO HARVEST FACILITY MANAGEMENT ROOM AND ASSET DATA

The single source of truth for room and asset data for any new building project should be found in the Building Information Models (BIMs) created by architectural, engineering, and contractor (AEC) BIM consultants. This BIM data should be ideal for harvesting and populating any facility management & indoor GIS program for the operations and maintenance of the completed project. Unfortunately, these same AEC models are often shelved due to inconsistent data structure across trades. 

COLLECTUS PROVIDES THE FACILITY OWNER’S AEC CONSULTANTS AN ENTIRE MODELING WORKFLOW WHICH INSURES A CONSISTENT, PREDICTABLE, AND VERIFIABLE BIM DATA STRUCTURE. THE FINAL BIM DELIVERABLES ARE IDEAL TO HARVEST THAT SAME ROOM AND ASSET BIM DATA FOR THE FACILITY OWNER’S INDOOR FM & GIS NEEDS.

THE COLLECTUS TURNKEY SOLUTION IS A COMPLETE  BIM LIBRARY AND INTEGRATED BIM EXECUTION PLAN (BXP), FULLY ACCESSIBLE TO THE OWNER’S AEC BIM TEAMS…

Collectus is intended for Facility Owners who want to harvest BIM data. Collectus is the first of its kind to commercially provide a BXP tied directly to a multi-trade Revit library of which defines the BIM infrastructure across all trades. This workflow insures project BIM data consistently for a facility’s:

Once in Revit, this rich and all-encompassing project room and asset data can be used to expose and populate building and campus FM and GIS programs today or in the future.

The four key aspects to note:

1. An all-trades BIM library of 36,000 imperial and metric components with an integrated BXP which your AEC BIM teams can access (in the cloud) and use to create your BIM project deliverables with little to no BIM management required by you or your staff.

2. Review and validate these same AEC Revit models for BXP compliance from Pre-Design through Substantial Completion without advanced BIM knowledge or experience.

3. Collectus includes a CSI classifications translator from MasterFormat to UniFormat and OmniClass with a single click.

4. The full Collectus Library and BXP are made available to all your AEC BIM teams at no additional cost.

Moving to BIM is a business proposition and Collectus provides a complete BIM structure that is required for such an endeavor. This was one of the considerations made by University of Virginia’s Facility Management Office when they recently purchased a three-year subscription of Collectus. The key benefit for a Facility Owner with BIM is the “I”: the room and asset data Information. Most institutions have 40+ departments and services that can benefit from BIM data as per the image below.

Collectus is the ideal package that is designed to alleviate a facility owner’s lack of staff, lack of budget and lack of time for BIM management. Collectus does not require your staff to learn and use Revit but instead defines how your project AEC BIM consultants are to build your Revit project models. Collectus then allows your limited team with no Revit experience, a workflow to review and validate those same models for compliance with the integrated BIM Execution Plan. The final intention is to have your AEC BIM teams create models that have the data you need to manage your facility once the building is done: to expose the final BIM room and asset parameter data to your existing FM and GIS programs. If you have not yet defined what BIM data you want to expose to your FM & GIS programs, at least you know the BIM data is ready when that day comes.

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Collectus defines the format, deliverable and data of all project BIMs made by the Facility Owner’s consulting AEC BIM teams. This package is remotely managed, maintained and includes features allowing the Facility Owner to batch audit and validate the BIMs for compliance with the BIM Execution Plan (BXP).

From a Facility Owner’s perspective who wish to use BIM data, the missing link is the lack of consistent parameter data structure from one AEC consulting BIM to another. Even with a BIM Execution Plan, without a single cohesive shared parameter schema across all the trade models within one or more projects, the Facility Owner’s efforts to transition BIM to FM & GIS remains extremely difficult.

Collectus is intentionally designed to create a single parameter data schema across all trade models for the automated transition from closeout of all BIM room names & numbers, FF+E per room, and their parameter & O&M data to the institution’s FM & GIS programs.

Collectus is a cloud based, BIM Standards library package & BXP used within Revit® 2020, 2021, 2022 & 2023. As a complete and vetted package of over 36,000+ online components (per Revit version), Collectus defines the Facility Owner’s overall modeling and parameter data requirements, team coordination meeting schedules and required BIM deliverables.

Collectus alleviates the need for Facility Owners to create, manage and maintain their own Revit BIM Standards and instead can focus on project model review and audit for BXP compliance. It provides a clear solution on how to introduce BIM to a facility which is new to Revit or to a facility that is overwhelmed with trying to maintain annual BIM standards.

Measuring ROI in general terms, Collectus typically pays for itself in about 3 to 4 months by reducing or eliminating non-billable time on overhead campus-wide BIM management. Using Collectus saves time in deliverable production on every project while ensuring consistency across all projects, campus-wide.

The editable Collectus BXP defines the project-specific required BIM model and parameter data deliverables for all AEC BIM team members, through all phases of the work. From Pre-Design through SD, DD, and CD’s into Pre-Con, Construction, Post-Construction, and into Operations, the Collectus BXP can be viewed in an instant by all team members at any time during the project.  

The Collectus BXP shows all project-specific BIM responsibilities, dates for all scheduled recurring BIM team meetings, and dates of required BIM deliverables. The Collectus BXP is a single, living document set available to all AEC+O BIM users at any time during their Revit project work. This workflow is far superior to sorting through multiple versions of stagnant, printed, or electronic documents stored in a folder on the network that may never be found by the end users who need it most.

As a remote BIM management library product for all disciplines, Collectus provides a clear BIM solution to Facility Owners overwhelmed with trying to introduce, create, and maintain BIM Standards internally. This Revit application is a documented set of best practice workflows and a BXP that defines multi-model, multi-discipline, BIM standard requirements and model deliverables for any Revit project.

Collectus provides two features which allow the AEC teams and Facility Owners the ability to review and validate the models to ensure model consistency, project uniformity and compliance with the BXP. The first is the Collectus “Audit” feature (see image above) which identifies and locates all non-compliant system, component, and annotation families. The Collectus Audit can be run by all AEC+O team members at any time during any phase of the work to check for compliance.

The second model review feature are the Collectus pre-built Revit schedules which are to be filled out by the AEC team members through the project time-line as defined in the BXP. The BXP clearly delineates which AE BIM teams are required to fill in their specific Level of Development (LOD) 300 Revit schedules for their SD, DD, and CD submissions.

The BXP defines LOD 400 “As-Built” model requirements for Contractors, Sub-contractors, and Fabricators which include “Manufacturer” asset parameter data for model elements to be maintained during Operations. Using pre-built Collectus LOD 400 schedules, this data can be exposed and modified with ease.  The LOD 500 “Digital Twin / Record Model” model requirements augment this asset parameter data with “Maintenance” requirements, also via pre-built schedules.  Data for model elements to be maintained during Operations by Facilities Maintenance groups is readily made available for entry and quick consumption downstream.

“These LOD 300, 400 and 500 Revit schedules allow the Facility Owner the ability to review the submitted Revit models for compliance with the BXP parameter data requirements” writes Cyril Verley, RA Founder of CDV Systems. 

These same Collectus schedules include all required parameters for COBie submission requirements including a batch parameter conversion feature from MasterFormat® into UniFormat® and OmniClass®. With the integration of Crosswalk® from the Construction Specification Institute (CSI), Collectus users can now update all Revit families using MasterFormat parameter data to Uniformat and OmniClass with a single click. See AEC Business for a recent podcast showcasing the Collectus / Crosswalk integration.

The shared parameter structure for all Collectus families and their associated design, documentation, as-built, and digital twin schedules provides a fully coordinated shared parameter schema across all model disciplines from Pre-Design to Operations. The Revit models submitted by the AEC BIM teams provide the Facility Owner a more coordinated modeling and parameter data structure streamlining the transition from Digital Twin models into Operations for BIM to FM and GIS.

Collectus represents the culmination of 20 years of CDV Systems’ Award-Winning Revit consulting services to the AEC+O firms and institutions shown below. As a BIM library designed for ease of use, minimizing model complexity, and maximizing parameter data structure, Collectus is a set of best BIM practice workflow solutions that synthesize model components, visibility settings, shared parameters, and Revit schedules. Collectus and its integrated BIM Execution Plan provides AEC consulting BIM teams clear direction for modeling and parameter data requirements which tie all projects from all disciplines into a single and coherent BIM product ready for the Facility Owner’s transition from BIM to FM and GIS.