New Industry Standard Enables Digital Facilities Management
In the latest edition of FMA’s (Facility Management Association of Australia) Facility Perspectives magazine, TK Wang, VBIS discusses the recent introduction of the new standard and how it can be adopted to meet the challenges in digital facilities management.
VBIS is an open standard. It standardises how assets and asset information are classified, and facilitates a standardised means for commercial applications to communicate. This allows users to easily locate information on assets that are in various applications.
The development of the Virtual Buildings Information System (VBIS) was funded by the Victorian Government through the Future Industries Fund’s Section Growth Program in recognition of being an innovative development that supports the construction and ongoing management of infrastructure.
There are three key objectives of VBIS:
1. to provide an easy way for facilities managers to maximise the use of existing information to support capital and operational planning, performance benchmarking, and contract management
2. to provide a practical pathway for Building Information Modelling (BIM) in facilities management
3. to be easy to adopt in applications that are already in use by facilities managers and all off-the-shelf, commercially available software applications.