TITLE:
Deploying an Interactive GIS System for Facility and Asset Management: Case Study-Ministry of Education, Kuwait
AUTHORS:
Hamdy Ibrahim El-Gamily, Khalid Al-Rasheed
KEYWORDS:
Elyx 3D, Micro-GIS, Building Information Modeling (BIM), Kuwait
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Geographic Information System,
Vol.7 No.2,
April
15,
2015
ABSTRACT: Geographical Information
System (GIS) can be considered the core of the Interactive Facilities
Management Environment (iFaME) framework in managing different facilities on
the building bases. This study aims at building a comprehensive geodatabase for
different elements of infrastructure facilities and services on the building
bases for a selected number of schools and developing a GIS-based iFaME interactive
application to manage different facilities at the school level in Kuwait. The
iFaME is a two-dimensional/three-dimensional (2D/3D) desktop application. It is
intended to take planners, decision makers, and maintenance experts inside the
building to provide an interactive GIS platform to manage, visualize, query,
maintain, and update the database related to school assets and facilities. The
Autodesk Revit software was used to produce 3D building information models
(BIM) for the selected schools. It provides accurate geometrical representation
of the school building elements in an integrated data environment. The iFaME
application is integrated with the Revit BIM models and the STAR-APIC Elyx 3D
software solution. With the development of the iFaME applications, the facility
managers in the MoE could establish greater control over the space allocation
and management, asset management, emergency planning, and other areas of
facility management. The school managers and maintenance engineers are
considered among the most beneficiaries from this application. The school
managers will monitor the maintenance activities all the time, while the
maintenance engineers will use the application as a container for maintenance
orders, and on the same time to document what they accomplished on daily basis.
The iFaME application will reduce the maintenance cost of school assets and
facilities in addition to increase their efficiency.