COLLECTUS® FOR FACILITY OWNERS WHO WANT BIM DATA FOR their FM, GIS & DIGITAL TWIN NEEDS
The single source of truth for room and asset data for any building construction project should be found in the Building Information Models (BIMs) created by architectural, engineering, and contractor (AEC) BIM consultants. This BIM data should be ideal for harvesting and populating any facility management & indoor GIS program for the operations and maintenance of the completed project. Unfortunately, these same AEC models are often shelved due to inconsistent data structure across trades.
Collectus provides the Facility Owner’s AEC consultants an entire modeling workflow which insures a consistent, predictable, and verifiable BIM data structure. The final BIM deliverables are ideal to harvest that same room and asset BIM data for the Facility Owner’s indoor FM & GIS needs.
THE COLLECTUS TURNKEY SOLUTION IS A COMPLETE BIM LIBRARY AND INTEGRATED BIM EXECUTION PLAN (BXP), FULLY ACCESSIBLE TO THE OWNER’S AEC BIM TEAMS…
Collectus is intended for Facility Owners who want to harvest BIM data. Collectus is the first of its kind to commercially provide a BXP tied directly to a multi-trade Revit library which defines the BIM infrastructure across all trades. This workflow insures project BIM data consistency for a facility’s:
Design & Documentation needs
As-Built / Manufacturer needs
Digital Twin / Record M0del / O&M needs
Once in Revit, this rich and all-encompassing project room and asset data can be used to harvest and populate building and campus FM and GIS programs today or in the future.
The four key aspects to note:
An all-trades BIM library of 36,000 imperial and metric components with an integrated BXP which your AEC BIM teams can access (in the cloud) and use to create your BIM project deliverables with little to no BIM management required by you or your staff.
Review and validate these same AEC Revit models for BXP compliance from Pre-Design through Substantial Completion without advanced BIM knowledge or experience.
Collectus includes a CSI classifications translator from MasterFormat to UniFormat and OmniClass with a single click.
The full Collectus Library and BXP are made available to all your AEC BIM teams at no additional cost.
Moving to BIM is a business proposition and Collectus provides a complete BIM structure that is required for such an endeavor. This was one of the considerations made by a US Division 1 University’s Facility Management Office when they recently purchased a three-year subscription of Collectus. The key benefit for a Facility Owner with BIM is the “I”: the room and asset data Information. Most institutions have 40+ departments and services that can benefit from BIM data as per the image below.
Collectus is the ideal package that is designed to alleviate a facility owner’s lack of staff, lack of budget and lack of time for BIM management. Collectus does not require your staff to learn and use Revit but instead defines how your project AEC BIM consultants are to build your Revit project models. Collectus then allows your limited team with no Revit experience, a workflow to review and validate those same models for compliance with the integrated BIM Execution Plan. The final intention is to have your AEC BIM teams create models that have the data you need to manage your facility once the building is done: to expose the final BIM room and asset parameter data to your existing FM and GIS programs. If you have not yet defined what BIM data you want to expose to your FM & GIS programs, at least you know the BIM data is ready when that day comes.