An Innovate UK-backed project will examine how to turn BIM data and intelligence created during the design and construction phases of housebuilding into useful information and services for homeowners, effectively citing the latter as the facilities managers of their own properties.
The six-month Re-Imagining BIM (RiBIM) project was prompted by concerns about the low take-up of BIM in housebuilding and is a partnership between property logbook supplier Chimni and open BIM specialist Xbim.
Chimni MD Nigel Walley said: “Our project makes the case that the homeowner should be viewed as a facilities manager and could use the data if made available to them in consumer-friendly ways.”
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