Why BIM exploitation in hospital projects?
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Whatever your department within the hospital, you are confronted with the need to constantly rehabilitate and refurbish 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 to undertake a BIM approach to better manage existing buildings?
Dematerialization is the first essential step in the digital transformation of companies. It consists in replacing paper documents by digital files or in creating digital documents directly to integrate them into different processes.
Dematerialization thus allows better management and facilitates access to data and documents.
There is not a day in the week that BIM (Building Infrastructure Modeling) is not discussed among professionals.
Working in BIM consists in modeling all the information of the building in a digital model, in collaborative mode.
Today, all actors recognize the interest in sharing all building information on a common support.
Simply modeling a hospital is not an end in itself. Once the digitization of the structural model is done (IFC), it is a question of exploiting it by linking it, for example, to a CMMS (Computerized Management and Maintenance System), a BMS (Building Management System), a DMS (Document Management System), to the fire safety system, etc. The BIM-GEM, which links the digital model to different operating systems, is thus created.
This set of available data called "digital base" allows to :
- MANAGING REAL ESTATE ASSETS
- EXPLOIT THE DIGITAL MODEL
- ACCESSING & MAKING RELIABLE INFORMATION
- CONTROL YOUR CONSUMPTION
- INTEGRATING THE EXISTING | RETRO BIM
- INTEGRATE THE BIM INTO YOUR SI
Conduct an accurate diagnosis of the state of your hospital.
In terms of management, operations and maintenance, there is often a significant loss of knowledge and know-how when a manager leaves.
The resulting knowledge and skills gap diminishes over time, but it is not uncommon for the adjustment period to take months or even years, depending on the complexity of the facility. In terms of health services, the consequences can be dramatic.
It is therefore important to get organized in order to facilitate this handing over and thus avoid that the knowledge escapes, as people leave.
The BIM exploitation offers a wide range of possibilities to overcome this evaporation of knowledge: development of guides, standardization of practices but also development of new support materials such as video tutorials, photos, dynamic links, etc.
Digital transformation thus facilitates the sharing of knowledge and helps to better meet increased safety, compliance and quality requirements.
Another point not to be neglected is the improvement of the follow-up of modifications (electricity, rooms, fluid networks, waste). Indeed, it is common 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 who consults one support rather than another.
The fact that these aspects are better managed thanks to their computerization will avoid working on outdated versions, with all the risks that this may entail. Thus, the transmission of knowledge is consolidated and will ensure greater security on the health sites.
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