Today BIM is a Project Tool—The Future's About the Program
Robert Blakey, International Facility Management Association (IFMA), Research and Development Facilities Council
Ten percent of the time we build facilities, and 90 percent of the time we operate them while planning to accommodate change and growth. How do we reduce the waste and lost productivity from the entire program cycle, not just from the design and construction phase?
Building information modeling (BIM) is a relatively new tool for collaboration between owners, designers, and builders that facilitates significant benefits in schedule, cost, and quality in the construction and major renovation of capital facilities. Yet BIM will find applications far beyond the design and construction phases of facilities management in the coming decade.
Currently, much of the way we manage our facility programs has the same stops, restarts, silos, and disconnects that were inherent in the old ways of running projects before Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and BIM came along.
Mr. Blakey will discuss the changes that may be expected in the building industry in the next 10 years from the broad application of BIM to Facilities Management. Learn what driving forces are now changing the way business will be done, how BIM should evolve to better manage operating resources, and what services firms will have to offer to be competitive in the laboratory and high tech building community.
Biography:
Robert Blakey is the president of the IFMA, Research and Development Facilities Council. He is also the founding principal of Strategic Equity Associates and an expert in the field of life cycle studies. Mr. Blakey graduated from California Coast University with both a Bachelor of Science in management and a Master of Science in engineering management. Mr. Blakey has over 20 years of experience in management with much of it in the area of facilities management and project management. Areas of specialized training include life cycle cost engineering analysis, technological forecasting, systems engineering, property management and facility management.
Mr. Blakey is also a licensed engineer in the U.S. Merchant Marine. He holds a Chief Engineer's license for Steam, Motor, or Gas Turbine Vessels of Any Horsepower (unlimited), and has over 20 years of experience in various disciplines of mechanical and electrical engineering.