Planning of Maintenance Cost for Business-Storage Facility Using BIM

The aim of this paper is to present case study of the use of BIM approach for planning of maintenance cost of a facility in the operation time of a real business-storage facility in Slovenia. The first part outlines general principles of FM and BIM. Next, the features of facility maintenance are described according to the current Slovenian legislation. In addition, several standards used in other countries, as the result of the mutual development of the FM and BIM, are introduced. After that, step-by-step procedures for planning of maintenance cost are exposed, namely from Element list for maintenance, determination of the lifetime, service measures and cost analysis to development of cost plan in tabular form. The presented cost plan is designed in a unique way in which cost analysis is performed by using BIM approach with linked data to 3D BIM model. Moreover, Construction Project Management Software (Vico Office) is applied. For the purpose of appraisal maintenance costs over the entire life of 60 years, cumulative costs are distributed over the years. Thus, the cost plan is made in tabular form in Excel, presenting visual overview of planned maintenance more explicitly.