The German government anticipates that BIM will allow for better coordination and optimized management of building processes through team-oriented cooperative problem-solving and the reduction of “planning risks, technical risks, permit risks, interface risks” (BMVI, 2015: 7) and that it will “...
Optimizing FM-oriented processes for building stocks starts with gathering general information about the main use, construction year, construction permit details, cadastral data, retrofit interventions, etc., of the building(s). FM professionals collect this kind of general information asking for the su...
The selected case study was the Faculty of History in Cambridge (Figure 1). The design of James Stirling was selected based on an architectural competition in 1962. From the beginning, there were concerns about the building’s environmental performance “the building would be subject to solar hea...