This is not surprising given that BIM contain a great deal of relevant information for facilities management operations ‒ for example, information about the composition of the building and the properties of building components.

This newfound interest in BIM consequently creates many questions, notes workplace management software provider Planon. The company created an e-book that includes five of the most frequently asked questions (FAQs) along with Planon’s answers to those questions.

Read this white paper to find the answer to these questions:

• What is BIM?
• What added value does BIM bring to facility management?
• Can a BIM be integrated with an integrated workplace management system?
• Is there a roadmap for successful BIM and IWMS integration?
• Can Planon’s IWMS software work with BIM data?

Download your free copy of this FAQ now by filling out the form at Planon.

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EULPs and savings shapes are critically important to utilities, public utility commissions, state energy offices and stakeholders to better value distributed energy resources in utility resource planning, state and local energy planning, and programs.

To fill this data gap, the U.S. Department of Energy supported the development of publicly available, calibrated, validated, and spatially and temporally resolved EULPs and savings shapes that are representative of the U.S. building stock. The foundational dataset can be accessed using three options — aggregates, web viewer, and individual models — and has many applications.

To assist users, Berkeley Lab released a new report that provides practical guidance on accessing the EULPs and savings shapes, and common uses. The End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock: Practical Guidance on Accessing and Using the Data report first describes three options for accessing the EULPs and savings shapes and considerations for determining which option is best suited for a particular application (see example of the web viewer and savings shapes in Figure 1).

The report then identifies seven common use cases for the EULPs and savings shapes and provides illustrative applications (Table 1).

The report authors are Margaret Pigman and Natalie Mims Frick in Berkeley Lab’s Electricity Markets and Policy Department, and Eric Wilson, Andrew Parker and Elaina Present, NREL. The Building Technologies Office of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy supported this work.

The EULPs and savings shapes and the End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock: Practical Guidance on Accessing and Using the Data report are available from Berkeley Lab.

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An overview of the launch plan recently was presented to industry leaders at an executive roundtable to accelerate ongoing efforts from innovative and forward-thinking organizations.

A critical issue in the U.S. construction industry is its low level of digitalization, which prevents it from transforming lifecycle work processes to be more efficient, less expensive, more resilient, and safer to build and maintain, says NIBS. The U.S. National BIM Program expands upon existing and ongoing work of the NIBS BIM Council as well as various other initiatives in the industry.

Stephen T. Ayers, FAIA, Interim CEO of NIBS, stated:

Many national and international initiatives focus on BIM standardization to support digital transformation throughout the entire life cycle of designing, constructing, and operating the built environment. The U.S. National BIM Program will be successful through collaboration between the public and private sectors and across the diversity of project stakeholders, namely owners, designers, constructors, suppliers, vendors, and other involved parties.

To aid in the implementation and launch of the U.S. National BIM Program, AEC subject matter expert Johnny Fortune joined NIBS in June. Fortune serves as director of the National BIM Program. Fortune said next steps include securing resources and establishing workgroups to operationalize different aspects of the plan.

U.S. National BIM Program background

NIBS began the planning process for the U.S. National BIM Program last year, meeting and working with industry leaders. Since then, many volunteers and NIBS staff members have worked to develop the implementation plan, which includes key activities and an estimated budget for the first five years.

The construction industry employs more than seven million people to create or renovate nearly $1.4 trillion in buildings, infrastructure, and other built assets each year. But the industry has yet to enjoy the productivity improvements of the digital age, averaging only 1% productivity growth in the past 20 years, points out NIBS.

Read about the implementation and launch plan for the U.S. National Building Information Management (BIM) Program on the NIBS website.

The NIBS BIM Council has focused on capturing the requirements of U.S. building owners to document best practices and provide guidance on the adoption of digital technology to increase productivity and performance. Examples include the United States National CAD Standard (NCS), National BIM Standard-United States (NBIMS-US), National BIM Guide for Owners (now a Draft Standard with ASHRAE), and Construction to Operations Building information exchange (COBie) Specification.

The National Institute of Building Sciences, authorized by public law in 1974, is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that brings together labor and consumer interests, government representatives, regulatory agencies, and members of the building industry to identify and resolve problems and potential issues around the built environment.

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Data was at the core of unprecedented challenges that disrupted the workforce and workplace over the last 18 months, advancing swiftly as workers moved to home-based offices in avoidance of exposure to a relentless virus. These challenges have doggedly remained as facility managers grapple with a health crisis that quickly became an economic crisis. Attention has turned to what the workplace of the future will look like and how much of the workforce is interested in returning to their previous workplace routine.

One issue was constant. Organizations struggled with data — what was collected, its accessibility, consistency and integrity to assess risk and swiftly aid decision-making. The environment created chaos, and an opening for FMs to earn a seat at the table they have long sought. FMs provided valuable insight and perspective to the discussion on how to move organizations forward and demonstrated the new emphasis on safety and trust for the workforce to return to the workplace. The integration of data was critical to the process.

What is data integration? It is the process of collecting and combining data from multiple external and internal sources that often cannot communicate with each other. It enables organizations to use this information derived from the bits of data collected for a wide range of business decisions in the current environment and provides analytics to improve management of the entire asset life cycle. The information derived from data collected across the organization empowers organizations to become better stewards of investments that loom large on the balance sheet — real estate, technology and human capital. FMs are the critical element linking these three investments.

Becoming data-driven means addressing many of the classic obstacles to integrating data from multiple sources. It also includes improving integration along the entire supply chain, across the lifecycle of an asset and in real estate portfolios. It means FMs have a unique skill set that can bring owners, occupiers, and investors to the table with their external business partners. This skill set empowers organizations to become better prepared for managing the next crisis.

The real estate industry can effectively collaborate on data integration from two perspectives:  industry organizations, such as OSCRE and IFMA, and key industry stakeholders including occupiers, owners, service firms, software vendors, investors and others. The primary objective for collaboration with industry stakeholders in both groups is to accelerate the advancement of a data-driven real estate industry that enables organizations to achieve better outcomes.

Leaders must be committed to implementing a digital transformation strategy — exploring new approaches to integrate their data, building new skills within teams, and finding new ways to use technology to empower team members and the entire organization.

Where to start? Collaboration is central to OSCRE’s strategy for advancing digital capabilities in the real estate industry as a whole and in real estate organizations themselves. No single industry organization offers data standards for the entire real estate industry, and there can be significant hurdles in connecting functions and the data standards that each one utilizes. OSCRE is committed to working with other industry organizations to address the challenges of interoperability across platforms and to extend existing standards to meet the changing needs of the industry.

A prime example of this collaborative approach is OSCRE’s working relationship with the Housing Associations’ Charitable Trust (HACT) in the development of the U.K. Housing Data Standard Powered by OSCRE. The lessons learned by both organizations represent a model for industry collaboration today and in the future. That model of engagement with industry stakeholders is highly transferable to other sectors and standards initiatives. The experience of those industry partners also highlights the solid business case for data integration based on standards.

Primary objectives of collaboration

To set the context for collaboration, OSCRE has identified the following objectives:

• Demonstrate benefits of data integration — connecting data across multiple platforms.
• Improve results for individual organizations, their business partners and the industry as a whole.
• Address value to shareholders and other stakeholders to encourage investment.
• Build a basis for fully integrated asset lifecycle management.
• Establish a framework for effective data governance.
• Achieve industry alignment around integrated data standards.
• Provide accessible education and training to develop skills required to implement standards.
• Expand support for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives and reporting.

Collaboration between industry stakeholders

OSCRE’s experience in the HACT project demonstrates that actively engaging in standards development increases the likelihood that the participating organizations will implement them. Collaboration does not require disclosure of trade secrets or information that would benefit competitors. It is a focus on developing consensus to address common challenges that arise from the extraordinary amount of real estate data being collected from many sources and its effective use in data strategies and operations.

Benefits from industry collaboration

Data standards are critical to building a foundation for effective data management and data governance, providing the following benefits:

• Incorporate related functional standards into an overall data strategy.
• Leverage the OSCRE Industry Data Model (IDM) as a starting point.
• Increase the speed of change and advancement in the industry.
• Identify critical components in a digital transformation.
• Maximize value from emerging technologies, e.g., artificial intelligence, machine learning and digital twins.

To achieve a full asset lifecycle perspective, functional standards cannot be implemented in isolation. An integrated data model (IDM) is the critical ingredient to develop a data strategy; it defines the organization’s priorities to improve digital capabilities and overall performance.

The HACT-OSCRE partnership

OSCRE has worked with HACT in the development of the U.K. Housing Data Standards Powered by OSCRE over the past four years. The collaboration is a model for industry organizations to build effective data governance practices as part of a larger data strategy. The partnership also included many of the key stakeholders in the social housing sector in the U.K. More than 70 partners have invested and actively participated in the project to date. This includes investors in social housing, property managers, enterprise software vendors and others who support the development and implementation of social housing data standards.

What was discovered

The standards development process used to build the U.K. Housing Data Standard Powered by OSCRE provides a framework which can be replicated in other initiatives. Rapidly developing domain-specific standards can start with the OSCRE Industry Data Model (IDM), and the IDM can be extended where needed. More strategically, the approach taken by OSCRE and HACT lays the foundation for a collaborative multi-enterprise operating model for the creation and implementation of real estate data standards. It also highlights OSCRE’s growing role as a standards aggregator, a convener to develop data standards and publisher. The project identifies important aspects of the initiative, from the multi-party engagement, through project funding, standards development methodology and tooling, and implementation guidelines for a variety of typical project types.

OSCRE’s standard development methodology

This methodology enabled project participants to quickly identify related concepts to fill gaps and build consensus.  Six standards projects have been completed in a little more than three years, including:

• Reactive Repairs
• Planned Maintenance
• Customer Care & Support
• Income
• Development Handover
• Resident Feedback and Complaints

These new standards can be reviewed on the OSCRE website. The HACT Data Standards Powered by OSCRE and the OSCRE Industry Data Model (IDM) are free to access but do require users to register.

Each standards project generated a common set of deliverables, including use case definitions, a target business case, a process context, term, schemas, and an implementation guide.

Timeline for a successful collaboration and industry engagement

A Continuum of education and training

Successful implementation of standards starts with a commitment to ongoing education and training.  OSCRE and HACT identified a critical need for increasing the skills and digital competencies across the sector and launched a series of learning labs developed and facilitated by OSCRE. The series is comprised of four learning labs specific to data governance and related foundational skills. Developing these skills within teams is critical for organizations to be effectively data-driven. The education and training options offered by the OSCRE Academy currently include:

• On-demand virtual certificate programs in Data Governance and Digital Competencies in Real Estate.
• Virtual Learning Labs open to multiple organizations.
• Applied Learning Labs for teams from a single organization in an implementation setting.

Education benefits are significant from a skills-building standpoint, including:

• Teams progress at the same pace, accelerating their ability to work together more effectively.
• Learning labs include workshops that allow for sharing experience, challenges and solutions.
• Applied Learning accelerates teams’ ability to proceed directly to implementation projects.
• The connections between data governance and other strategies are clarified.
• An organization becomes much more effective in representing itself with suppliers and partners.
• Greater alignment becomes possible between leadership and operations in a digital ecosystem.

Establish a product roadmap to guide the participants through the standards development process. Using a variety of engagement techniques, HACT and OSCRE reached out to the sector to identify high-priority use cases for standards development. These were packaged into a prospectus that explained the specific intent behind each project and the overall roadmap for development. The product roadmap is a tool that both organizations use to communicate upcoming standards projects and ensure support in the project.

Extending the collaboration model

OSCRE is working with industry organizations in other sectors and has included their standards in the OSCRE IDM. This is one of the primary methods by which OSCRE is building support for enabling data flows along the entire asset lifecycle. Examples of these collaborations include the Construction Specifications Institute, focused on standards commonly used in construction and building operations, including UniFormat, MasterFormat and OmniClass, which are built into the OSCRE IDM.

The IDM contains use cases based on the latest BOMA Standards for space measurement for office, industrial, residential, and mixed-use properties. An implementation team has the flexibility to choose the measurement method that best suits their needs and still retains the integrity of the overall data model.

OSCRE and HACT have worked closely with the U.K. BIM Alliance to ensure interoperability between the IFC and COBie models (commonly used in the construction/delivery phase) and the OSCRE models (used primarily from handover onwards in the operational phase). This also ensures that the OSCRE work is consistent with the ISO19650 framework and can be used as a data standard within that context.

Benefits and lessons learned

Data standards are the foundation of this project. They form the basis for change that fuels collaboration with external and internal business partners and an industry advantage that includes the following benefits:

• Greater transparency, consistency and integrity of data across platforms and business partners.
• Ability to incorporate related functional standards into an overall data strategy.
• Leverage the OSCRE IDM as an integral step to effective data management and data governance.
• Increase the speed of change and advancement in the industry.
• Identify critical components (such as integrated data standards) in a digital transformation.
• Maximize value from emerging technologies, e.g., artificial intelligence, digital twins and machine learning.

Lessons learned from the HACT-OSCRE project

• Collaboration will continue to be core to OSCRE’s strategy for industry engagement.
• This approach brings the business and IT groups together effectively to achieve results.
• Participating organizations recognized common ground around the role of standards.
• Standards development enables users to maximize value from emerging technologies.
• Avoid mistakes by leveraging OSCRE’s experience with large scale standards development.
• Education components are needed to build skills and enable successful implementation.
• Hold events to raise awareness and define the business case as you make progress.
• The value of the new standard and lessons learned are not limited to social housing nor the U.K.
• Solutions emerged that can be implemented to solve data challenges from the pandemic.

Where Can We Go From Here?

A collaborative approach is critical to achieve the digital transformation the industry needs. This approach can accelerate progress, the synergy created by dedicated participants can improve results, adds significant value to stakeholders and can make significant contributions to ROI.

Grassroots support for this approach requires allocation of resources — building the skills to match the will of leadership to move forward, commitment of human capital and financial investment. OSCRE has confirmed a commitment to focus on critical industry issues and identify common ground that advances progress for years to come. Tools already exist in OSCRE’s IDM to gain a head start on high priority initiatives of interest to FMs and their internal and external business partners.

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The study, entitled Connecting Owners and Contractors: How Technology Drives Connected Construction, highlights the challenges that arise when owners and contractors manage construction projects using disparate software applications without automated data exchange. For standard processes such as requests for information (RFIs), submittals and progress payments, this situation can drive increased cost, higher risks and schedule delays. Conflict over data ownership and transparency often results in duplicate data entry and negative impacts to productivity.

Key findings from the study reveal the growing challenge:

• 42% of contractors report using both the owner’s project management application as well as a specialized project management application designed for contractors. This results in increased risk to the contractor due to duplicated effort.
• Only 45% of respondents are satisfied with the current state of data connectedness. 65% of owners and 51% of contractors see high or very high value in a single data platform that all parties can use for collaboration and sharing.
• 73% of contractors report medium or high impact on the productivity of workers due to double entry of construction data.

Steve Jones, senior director of Industry Insights from Dodge Data & Analytics, remarked:

The need for contractors and owners to use their own project management applications has always been there. The problem is, they [the two applications] have not worked together well. The data in this research quantifies the impact of the data silos between contractor and owner.

The problem will only increase as more project owners adopt their own project management system, points out Trimble. The company’s strategy of connecting construction data, as part of its Constructible Process, seeks to provide efficiencies in building construction.

According to Chris Bell, vice president of Marketing at e-Builder:

The instant the first construction management software was invented, the clash over data ownership and transparency on construction projects was born. Unlike some vendors that attempt to serve multiple stakeholders with the same application, the latest technology trend is purpose-built software with connected data. We are proud to be the first to offer this for construction project management.

E-Builder, founded in 1995, provides cloud-based construction program management software for facility owners and the companies that act on their behalf. The company develops e-Builder Enterprise, which is aligned with the development of Trimble ProjectSight and Trimble Prolog, project controls solutions for contractors, to further enhance data flow between owners and contractors. With over 250,000 active capital projects, e-Builder + ProjectSight are said to create the industry’s first connected construction platform for project management.

Dodge Data & Analytics leverages its 100-year-old legacy of continuous innovation to provide analytics and software-based workflow integration solutions for the construction industry.

A complimentary version of the Connecting Owners & Contractors: How Technology Drives Connected Construction SmartMarket Brief is available online.

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According to GenieBelt, five of the Top 10 construction tools and technology trends for 2019 are:

1. Augmented reality (AR) — Benefits from using augmented reality in construction processes are becoming more obvious. AR is seen to have even more potential in construction than virtual reality.
2. Data ecosystem — The emergence of a construction data ecosystem is expected, where all the innovative players of the industry will come together and share data, experience and project knowledge.
3. Construction software — Real-time collaboration software is already regarded as an essential component of the entire building process. Nevertheless, its impact on the sector is expected to increase substantially in the near future.
4. BIM — This is one of the hottest construction trends already. BIM technology could be the catalyst for a fundamental change in how we manage, design and develop a construction project.
5. Increased prefabrication, modularization, and eco-friendliness — There have been growing trends towards multi-trade prefabrication, off-site construction (a.k.a. modularization) and, as a result, improved eco-friendliness in construction processes.

Among other construction trends in 2019, GenieBelt noted:

• Self-healing concrete
• Drones
• Robotics
• Cloud and mobile technologies
• Advanced uses of GPS
• New scanning solutions
• Wearables, and others

[To see more on how IoT is impacting the 2019 construction industry, see this recently published construction trends article on FMLink.]

For GenieBelt’s complete detailed list of Top 10 construction technology trends for 2019, visit the Copenhagen-based company’s blog.

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MCS Solutions offers an integrated and modular Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS) that covers core functional areas in real estate, workplace and facilities management for large private and public organizations. Additionally, MCS Solutions developed a sophisticated smart building platform, COBUNDU, that uses Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and big data analytics to optimize productivity and efficiency in both occupant experience and facility service delivery.

Leading position in a growing market for building operations

Nemetschek cited research by analyst firm MarketsandMarkets indicating that over the next five years an addressable market of more than EUR 10 billion in annual customer spending with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 10%. Building owners are investing in technology to drive significant cost benefits, simplified operations and maintenance, reduced energy use, and growing integration of IoT and smart buildings. By investing in smart building technology, owners can increase building efficiency, better satisfy the needs of occupants, and differentiate their space in the competitive real estate market. The rapid consolidation of solution providers recently in the market signals the major shift in technology use that is accelerating.

In this changing landscape, MCS Solutions has become a well-known and well-respected player, with seven regional offices in Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. MCS Solutions helps organizations improve real estate performance in terms of total cost, risk reduction, employee satisfaction, brand perception and sustainability. Employing over 200 people, MCS Solutions already serves over 1.5 million active users across the globe in more than 60 countries across many vertical industries, including private and public building owners, occupants, retail, commercial real estate, financial services, manufacturing, transportation and facility service providers.

MCS’s solutions are offered primarily as a subscription business model globally through direct sales and partnerships. The recurring revenues will continue to increase over the next years and will replace the traditional license model.

Strategic addition

By acquiring MCS Solutions, the Nemetschek Group will enter this dynamically growing building operations management market and considerably extend its target markets beyond design and construction, where Nemetschek already has a leading market position. With the acquisition, Nemetschek will provide key workflow offerings across the entire life cycle of buildings.

Patrik Heider, spokesman and CFOO of the Nemetschek Group, remarked:

MCS Solutions is a perfect match for our solution portfolio that opens up a new market segment in which we will build to a leading market position as we have in BIM (building information management) for design and construction. With the integration of MCS Solutions, we drive digitalization through the entire building process and are going to realize a seamless exchange of information before and, continuously, during the usage of a building. With the strong and global market position of MCS Solutions, we are taking on the role of being an innovator for the entire life cycle of buildings.

Koen Matthijs, CEO of MCS Solutions, commented:

For MCS, the acquisition means accelerated growth into international markets by benefiting from Nemetschek’s global customer and partner access, without changing its motivating culture and identity. For our customers, it allows them to continue using our leading IWMS and smart building software, while benefiting from increased integration with Nemetschek’s software solutions throughout the building life cycle.

Steven Lambert, COO of MCS Solutions, added:

We look forward to working closely with the other Nemetschek Group brands to make digital project information more transparent and easier to access by all parties in design, build, and manage stages.

Both managers will stay in their roles after the acquisition.

For more information, visit the Nemetschek or MCS Solutions website.

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Facility Management Market by Solution, Service, Deployment Type, Organization Size, Vertical, and Region — Global Forecast to 2023

According to the 326-page Facility Management Market by Solution (IWMS, BIM, Operations & Security, Environment, Property Management), Service (Auditing & Quality Assessment, SLA Management), Deployment Type, Organization Size, Vertical, and Region — Global Forecast to 2023 report from Markets and Markets,  the global facilities management (FM) market size is expected to grow from USD 34.65 billion in 2018 to $59.33 billion by 2023, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.4% during the forecast period.

The major growth factors for the market include growth in the development of sustainable infrastructure, and in the adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices for building automation across industry verticals. Additional drivers include the:

• Increasing need to meet environmental and regulatory compliance
• Spur in the demand for integrated facilities management (IFM) to achieve economies of scale
• Changing focus to virtual workplace and mobility
• Increasing development of the sustainable infrastructure
• Emergence of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) deployment model
• Growing adoption of IoT and connected devices for building automation

According to the report summary, market restraints include a lack of managerial awareness and dependency on the in-house FM team. Opportunities for FM players include the integration of BIM (building information modeling) with FM solutions and the implementation of the digital twin technology for facility asset management. Challenges include the integration of FM with legacy ERP Systems, and the lack of skills and expertise. FM technology trends include cognitive computing, IoT and analytics, augmented reality (AR) and robotics and drones.

For this report, the FM market is segmented on the basis of solutions, services, organization size, deployment types, verticals, and regions.

Report highlights:

• In the solutions segment, the facility property management subsegment is expected to hold the largest market share.
• The SLA management segment is expected to grow at the highest rate, attributed to the fact that facilities management vendors enable their clients to maintain and manage all SLAs and further help FM teams to monitor the availability and performance of their critical FM SLAs.
• The large enterprises segment is expected to hold a larger market share in the FM market by organization size, mainly due to the fact that FM solutions enable enterprises to monitor and regulate complex and huge facility infrastructures. In the deployment type segment, the cloud deployment type is expected to grow at a higher CAGR during the forecast period, mainly because the cloud deployment model enables organizations to manage their costs but also helps them ensure improved business agility.
• The information technology (IT) and telecom vertical is expected to hold the largest market share in the FM market.
• North America is the largest contributor to the FM market in terms of market size, as it is a technologically advanced region with a rising population, and there is an increase in the number of public-private partnership projects.

According to the report summary, the facility environment management segment of waste management is expected to grow at the highest CAGR. The summary notes that waste management solutions enable FM teams to weigh and manage multi-stream wastes from a wide range of buildings and facilities, and help them precisely monitor different waste streams such as chemicals, food, plastics, ink, batteries and papers.

In terms of operations and security management, the video surveillance and access control segment is expected to have the largest market. The summary notes that video surveillance is a vital tool for protecting and securing people and facilities, around the clock. An increasing number of threats has resulted in the deployment of surveillance systems that provide situational awareness around critical facilities. Education institutes, hotels and government offices have to protect their entry and exit points to prevent vandalism and avoid authorization issues. Video surveillance solutions simplify the management of large numbers of hardware devices, such as cameras and sensors. They also automate the configuration of security devices. These solutions can automatically create an alert with the picture of the intruder and send it to the registered devices.

The report offers profiles on these key FM-related companies:

• Accruent
• Apleona
• Archibus
• Archidata
• Autodesk
• CA Technologies
• Emaint
• FM:Systems
• FSI
• Facilities Management Express
• Facilityone Technologies
• Hippo Cmms
• IBM
• Indus Systems
• Ioffice
• Jadetrack
• MCS Solutions
• Maintenance Connection
• Metricstream
• Nemetschek
• Officespace
• Oracle
• Planon
• SAP
• Trimble

Facility Management Market by Solution (IWMS, BIM, Operations & Security, Environment, Property Management), Service (Auditing & Quality Assessment, SLA Management), Deployment Type, Organization Size, Vertical, and Region — Global Forecast to 2023 is available on the ResearchAndMarkets.com website.

Facility Management Services — Global Market Outlook (2017-2026)

The Facility Management Services — Global Market Outlook (2017-2026) report by Stratistics Market Research Consulting says that the market accounts for $30.11 billion in 2017 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 13.2% to reach $91.92 billion by 2026.

Factors driving the market include an increasing demand for cloud technology solutions such as SaaS, a rising need for IoT and connected devices for building automation, and a growing number of commercial and residential buildings such as shopping malls, hotels, hospitals and office, etc. However, a shortage of skilled experts, the existence of unorganized players, and a dearth of awareness regarding FM solutions are restricting the market growth.

Facilities management is a built-in environment that provides strategic and day-to-day level solutions comprising a broad range of services and management facilities to enterprise business operations by enhancing their efficiency and effectiveness, notes the report. Large organizations command the biggest market share as these services guide and control the complicated facility infrastructures for the organizations.

In the area of deployment, the cloud segment is growing at the highest CAGR owing to the cloud deployment model that helps organizations to maintain costs and ensure enhanced business agility. Cloud computing applied in FM is used to modify scheduling and reporting, and to lower costs of managing teams, safety and asset management.

Companies mentioned:

• Oracle
• Archibus
• CA Technologies
• Accruent
• Planon Corporation
• Ioffice
• Trimble, Inc.
• IBM Corporation
• FM Systems, Inc.
• SAP SE
• Facilityone Technologies
• MCS Solutions
• Metricstream
• Hippo Cmms
• Facilities Management Express

The report covers such FM solutions as facility environment management, facility property management, building information modeling, facility operations and security management, integrated workplace management systems and project management.

Services covered in the report include auditing and quality assessment, support and maintenance, service level agreement management, deployment and integration, and consulting.

Facility Management Services – Global Market Outlook (2017-2026) is available on the ResearchAndMarkets.com website.

Additional FM market reports are also available on the website.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) in FM

One sector that the Artificial Intelligence: What it Means for the Built Environment highlights as facing a significant impact of AI is facilities management (FM), due to the labor-intensive and repetitive nature of many FM jobs, making it an ideal place for automation of previously human-dominated tasks.  However, the report weighs up the positives and negatives of such changes and how companies should deal with them.

According to Paul Bagust, RICS global property standards director:

FM will always have a vital role to play within the built environment, and even though many operational roles will become more technology-led, the sector could benefit hugely from AI at a strategic level. For example, machinery utilizing AI will revolutionize the FM industry, making many jobs faster, safer, less costly and this will ultimately improve a company’s service offering and increase their bottom line.

Technology and the availability of data is also changing the way investors look for opportunities and invest. This will present a huge threat to the industry if ignored, but, again, it presents so many opportunities for those who work in the built environment. So, all businesses, however large or small, must act now and analyze and prepare for how this disruptive technology could transform their role, sector and the wider built environment — otherwise they face becoming obsolete.

The paper discusses how AI will transform the property industry by driving smart, efficient buildings from design through to construction. It also highlights how those in the industry can exploit the latest AI applications and developments, including drones and BIM (building information modeling), to plan and work more effectively, while improving and better maintaining the quality of buildings and the wider built environment.

Chris Hoar, co-founder of AI in FM, stated:

The overarching message of this report is that organizations should seek out and maximize the opportunities that artificial intelligence presents, while minimizing any potential threats. This way, they will have a much better chance of controlling their business strategy, direction and financial health.

Discover more

RICS expects artificial intelligence will be one of the driving forces as the globe becomes more urban and digital. How this technology can develop our industries and drive productivity will be explored further at the RICS World Built Environment Forum Summit on April 23-24, 2018, in London.

Artificial Intelligence: What it Means for the Built Environment is available from the RICS Web site.

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The new Society will provide a community for accreditation, training and career advancement for all engineers working digitally across building services and its supply chain including clients.

CIBSE says it has taken the lead in developing support, guidance and specific tools for digital engineers: the most notable recent example was the development, with NG Bailey, of the BIMHawk online tool to automate the transfer of product data templates into BIM platforms. This experience illustrated the number of engineering professionals involved not only in building services but also product design, facilities management (FM), information control, etc., whose common experience lies in their shared understanding of working in a digital environment.

For this group of people — which will include both new entrants and experienced engineers recognizing the importance of digital technology for their future career — there is currently no obvious route to recognition of their specialized knowledge or association to provide continuous knowledge sharing, support and career advancement, points out CIBSE.

SDE is designed to meet this need and to provide a home for digital engineers to network, share and create best practice and find sources of information, training and peer groups.

Entry to SDE requires applicants to be measured against competence criteria that have been mapped against both CIBSE and the Engineering Council U.K. requirements.  This has been drafted for full membership, as well as for EngTEch and IEng up to CEng status, ensuring that SDE can deliver career progression through the SDE grades, leading to MCIBSE and EC Registration.

In launching the SDE, CIBSE is not only demonstrating its long-time commitment to developing the art and science of digital engineering, but is also working with the full support and collaboration of many of the industry’s leading players. Those who have explicitly lent their support to the initiative include: N G Bailey, Atelier Ten, Atkins, Buro Happold, Hilson Moran, Arup, Autodesk, IES, Legrand, MagiCAD, Shindler, Trimble, and Trox.

The Society for Digital Engineering was officially launched on September 12, 2017 at the Royal Academy of Engineering. For further information on the Society, the application process and its ongoing remit, visit the CIBSE Web site.

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