Ongoing Operations
Data Exchange Standards Activity

Asset Management
Bentley Inventories and Reports, Asset management.
FIATECH Accelerating Deployment of ISO 15926 (ADI) - This project is using the ISO Standard 15926 for process industry lifecycle information integration as a foundation to establish an online Work-In-Progress (WIP) ISO 15926 repository that is continuously evolving with input from the domain experts for the information models and state-of-the-art software tools and methodology. ACTIVE.

Capital Projects Technology Roadmap - This project established a consensus vision for the capital projects industry and a unifying initiative to achieve the vision. ACTIVE.

Operational Facility Roadmap Directory - This project is assessing the current state of Intelligent buildings and Intelligent Building Roadmaps to envision future capital facilities that will be programmed, designed and constructed to be an intelligent integrated system of systems. These intelligent systems will utilize data flow from self monitored equipment and systems to manage actions and ensure conditions and performance necessary to enable safe, secure, and continuously optimized facility operations. Several organizations are working on different aspects of Intelligent Buildings and FIATECH plans to review what is being done, determine what gaps exist, how these gaps should be addressed, and how it all fits into the FIATECH Capital Projects Technology Roadmap. Information and data transfer leads to interoperability; one of FIATECH’s imperatives. ACTIVE.

Data Standards Clearinghouse - This project developed an online information resource of standards bodies, their current activities, and their ongoing activities. COMPLETED.

Attracting the Next Generation - To collectively achieve synergy in recruiting the next generation workforce in technology-related fields by creating a shared resource that will be available to all in an interactive and flexibly manner. ACTIVE

Teaching Core Technology Competencies - The objective of this project is to identify unique (i.e. university, trade unions) programs and techniques used to teach design and construction technology to serve the capital projects industry.in order to achieve a better educated workforce. ACTIVE.

Life Cycle Data Management (LCDM) - Initiated in early 1999, originally through the Owner Operators Forum, this project was focused on significantly reducing facility creation and operation, time and cost by building tools to integrate disparate technologies and business processes across the entire plant lifecycle. COMPLETED.
gbXML Can be used for existing building for all analyses mentioned above.
Graphisoft Support IFC asset management and maintenance interface.
IAI Examples: Time Series (Time related events); Asset management (identification, histories, inventories); Condition Monitoring (Captures condition data including both measured (by Instrumentation) and assessed (by visual inspection)); Space and Move management; Request Capture (Captures ad hoc requests made for operating and maintenance work and allocation of requests to work orders.); Service Life Data (Inclusion of capabilities for service life capture and management including reference and expected service life and ISO based service life factors); Environmental impact (Capture of environmental impact data for objects allowing impact assessment to be carried out in support of sustainable working); Operating and Maintenance information (Provision of capability to capture operating and maintenance instruction information based on the US Navy/Dept of Health developed OMSI XML standards).
NIBS Whole Building Design Guide - Comprehensive internet-based portal to a wide range of federal and private sector, building related guidance, criteria & technology. It links information across traditional professional disciplines to encourage integrated thinking and a "whole building" approach to the project during the planning/ programming, design, use, construction, operation, and maintenance of the facility.

As a registered CES provider, the WBDG CES system is a source of AIA Continuing Education System learning units for registered architects. The courses featured offer an introduction to whole building design concepts as well as more specific applications for design objectives, building types and operations and maintenance. All courses are currently available free of charge. www.wbdg.org

buildingSMART ® - buildingSMART is the dynamic and seamless exchange of accurate, useful information on the built environment among all members of the building community throughout the lifecycle of a facility. buildingSMART is simply a smarter process for managing the project lifecycle.

In January 2007, NIBS’ Board of Directors unanimously approved the buildingSMART® Alliance charter created to spearhead technical, political, and financial support for advanced digital technology in the real property industry—from concept, design and construction through operations and management. The new public/private initiative expands on goals of the North American Chapter of the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI-NA), whose Industry Foundation Classes (IFCs) have initiated open standards for national and international links among industry players, and will serve developers and users of Building Information Models (BIMs), the digital tools that are increasingly helping to share highly accurate information throughout a facility’s life cycle. www.iai-na.org/bsmart

National BIM Standard™ (NBIMS) a buildingSMART® initiative - National Building Information Model Standard, Version 1.0—Part 1
  1. Overview, Principles, and Methodologies (PDF 13.3 MB)
  2. Appendices and References (PDF 2.6 MB)
This comprehensive document developed for the past year and released in the spring of 2007 is the collaboration of over thirty subject matter experts from many areas of the capital facilities industry. There are many Building Information Modeling (BIM) issues to discuss, coordinate, and resolve, not only throughout the United States, but also with our international counterparts. It is hoped that this effort will facilitate discussion and bring to closure any areas of confusion. The NBIM committee is also finalizing their consensus process based on the NIBS NCS consensus process. Ballots will be developed for various items needing consensus voting. It is anticipated that NBIMS Version 1, Part 2 will be available near the end of 2008. www.facilityinformationcouncil.org/bim
PISCES PISCES has published data exchange standards for Commercial valuations of assets, asset management, transfer of legal interests, investment performance and financial transactions relating to real estate.

Maintenance
Bentley Work Orders.
gbXML Can be used for existing building for all analyses mentioned above.
IAI FM domain project starting with OSCRE to transfer directly appropriate design & construction information to CAMMs.
NIBS Whole Building Design Guide (WBDG), buildingSMART alliance and NBIMS - see above.
NIST NIST has suggested that its CMU grantee extend its exploration of the use of IFC-based BIMs beyond commissioning (during close-out) to include fault detection and diagnostic work (during building operation).
OSCRE Members of OSCRE’s FACILITY MANAGEMENT WORK GROUP are nearing completion of their AUTOMATED WORK REQUEST/WORK ORDER STANDARD designed to enable interoperable data exchanges between a variety of stakeholder applications.

The business values of participating in the OSCRE FM Work Group and adopting the OSCRE FM standard are several:
  • Originators: Minimize data entry of service requests and work orders(From multiple times to single entry)
  • Originators and Recipients: Cutting costs of data management. With a single data export, all service provider and vendor channels will be able to be kept current.
  • Originators and Recipients: Improve data quality. Providing data definitions will contribute to better data quality and easier data interpretation
  • Originators and Recipients: Improve the ease of data management. Providing data in a consistent format will allow data originators and receivers to more readily manage data from different sources.
  • Originators: Re-purpose data for other activities. Data formatted for OSCRE FM purposes can be used for other business activities, saving time and resources formatting the data and interpreting the results.
In the short term, data exchange partners will benefit from decreased costs associated with less data entry, simpler data management and improved data quality. The financial benefits of this process will initially be a reduction in soft costs. Hard cost savings may occur after the data exchange process is vetted with both the data originator and data receiver’s, allowing both parties to cut labor costs associated with data management. The business value of the OSCRE FM standard process cannot be entirely captured in cost savings terms. Many of the benefits generated through this standard will occur as a result of data exchange enabling, streamlining business processes and creating new ones based on the ability to easily manage and track service request and work order data. Many of these enabled processes will occur along the supply chain and where granular work order data can be consumed for business intelligence, market analysis and other data intensive activities inside and outside companies using the OSCRE FM standard.

Summary
Regardless if your organization is involved in Corporate Real Estate or Real Estate Property Management both have to manage work order requests and fulfillment. The FM Work Order Work Group will be a valuable tool designed to automate and streamline this business process that is critical for everything from employee workplace productivity, Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) to tenant retention.
PISCES Yes. Standards exist to transfer data required to automate work requests and owner/ contractor/supplier transactions.

Building Control Systems
ASHRAE ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135-2005, BACnet -- A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks, allows building equipment and systems manufactured by different companies to work together. It is the only open, consensus-developed standard in the building controls industry.
gbXML Can be used for existing building for all analyses mentioned above.
MIMOSA MIMOSA is a not-for-profit trade association dedicated to developing and encouraging the adoption of open information standards for Operations and Maintenance and Collaborative Asset Lifecycle Management in commercial and military applications. MIMOSA is composed of progressive process and discrete manufacturing corporations, facility management companies, military organizations, capital equipment OEMs, and suppliers of asset management software systems including Human-Machine Interfaces (HMI), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Plant Asset Management (PAM) systems, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Asset Management (EAM/CMMS) systems, Operational Data Historian Systems (ODHS), and Condition Monitoring (CM) systems.

The MIMOSA Mission
To develop and encourage adoption of open information standards for Operations and Maintenance (O&M) and collaborative asset lifecycle management (CALM).

The MIMOSA Objectives
  • Publish open specifications for robust Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Condition-based Maintenance (CBM). These XML-based specifications will enable end-to-end, vertical & horizontal information integration.
  • As a trade association, promote cooperative O&M and CALM market development
  • Provide a forum for the O&M and CALM Industry, bringing together subject matter experts in cross-disciplinary technologies, products and services to enable complex O&M and CALM solutions for:
    • Equipment Operators & Maintainers
    • Equipment OEM's
    • Fleet Managers
    • HMI Industry
    • EAM Industry
    • PAM Industry
    • ODHS Industry
    • MES Industry
    • CM Industry
    • Equipment Operators & Maintainers
  • Be an O&M industry advocate for the capture, use & reuse of consistently defined O&M information in collaborative asset lifecycle management (CALM).
NIBS Whole Building Design Guide (WBDG), buildingSMART alliance and NBIMS - see above.
NIST NIST is combining IFC-based BIMs with advanced building management and control systems to explore how we can better inform emergency responders in near real-time about the evolving status of a building during an adverse event, making what we believe is a compelling case for the maintenance and use of the BIM long after the building project is closed out (project publication).