Why use BIM for hospital projects?
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Whatever your department within the hospital, you are faced with the need to constantly refurbish and reorganize premises, to ensure their proper operation and to meet a strong commitment to quality, safety and traceability... while keeping costs under control.
In this article:
How can BIM be used to better manage existing buildings?
Dematerialization is the first essential step in the digital transformation of companies. It involves replacing paper documents with digital files, or directly creating digital documents and integrating them into various processes.
Dematerialization thus enables better management and easier access to data and documents.
There isn't a day of the week when BIM (Building Infrastructure Modeling) isn't discussed among professionals.
Working in BIM means modeling all building information in a digital model, in collaborative mode.
Today, all players recognize the benefits of sharing all building information on a common medium.
Simply modeling a hospital is not an end in itself. Once the structural model has been digitized (IFC), it needs to be exploited by linking it, for example, to a CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) solution, a BMS (Building Management System), a DMS (Document Management System), a fire safety system, etc. The BIM-GEM linking the digital model to various operating systems is thus created.
This set of available data, known as the "digital base", makes it possible to :
- MANAGING REAL ESTATE ASSETS
- USING THE DIGITAL MODEL
- ACCESS & RELIABILITY OF INFORMATION
- CONTROL YOUR CONSUMPTION
- INTEGRATING THE EXISTING | RETRO BIM
- INTEGRATING BIM INTO YOUR SI
Carry out an accurate diagnosis of your hospital's condition.
In management, operations and maintenance, there is often a significant loss of knowledge and know-how when a manager leaves.
The resulting knowledge and skills deficit diminishes over time, but it's not uncommon for the adaptation period to take months or even years, depending on the complexity of the installations. When it comes to health services, the consequences can be dramatic.
So it's important to get organized in order to facilitate the handover and prevent knowledge from slipping away with each passing day.
BIM exploitation offers a wide range of possibilities for overcoming this evaporation of knowledge: developing guides, standardizing practices, but also creating new support media such as tutorial videos, photos, dynamic links and so on.
Digital transformation thus facilitates knowledge sharing and helps us to better meet the growing demands of safety, compliance and quality.
Another point not to be overlooked is improved tracking of modifications (electricity, rooms, fluid networks, waste). It is not uncommon to find several paper versions of the same document, with modifications or annotations specific to each version, and therefore a loss of information for the person consulting one medium rather than another.
Better management of these aspects through computerization will avoid working on outdated versions, with all the risks this can entail. In this way, the transmission of knowledge is strengthened, ensuring greater safety on healthcare sites.
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