Connecting disparate data to achieve FM outcomes

At the recent Facility Management Association Ideaction.Vitual 2020 national conference Carl Agar presented a case study of a VBIS deployment in a well-known facility, and how this significantly improved the utilisation of existing asset information to achieve FM outcomes.

The volume of building data and documentation is always growing. Most already face the challenges of ‘knowing what you know’ and then data accuracy and access in a timely manner. The increasing adoption of connected devices and cloud-based applications is multiplying the problems of awareness, accuracy, access and sheer volume and. The future and the greatest benefits will belong to those who can readily analyse and operationalise the data. To achieve this data needs structure and must be easily and reliably accessed.

The Virtual Buildings Information System (VBIS) provides a standard syntax to permit generic and reliable links to be created between applications and data repositories, combined with a standard convention for asset record labelling, or tagging, and a logical creation of a consistent data hierarchy.

This straightforward system makes possible the calling up of useful information from a range of applications including Building Information Models and FM systems to link to associated data sets seamlessly, regardless of the stage of the building lifecycle.

This presentation will describe the progress made in development over the last year and go through a case study of a deployment that was completed at a landmark facility in Australia