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... CONTENTS VII ACRONYMS AND GLOSSARY 1 SUMMARY 3 CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Building Information Modeling Description, 3 Synthesis Study Methodology and Results Summary, 5 Audience, 8 Report Organization, 8 Costs and Benefits of Building Information Modeling (business case) , 8 Background, 8 Airport Experience -- Survey Results and Case Examples, 10 14 CHAPTER TWO BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING PURPOSE, PROCESSES, AND TOOLS Background, 14 Airport Experience -- Survey Results and Case Examples, 19 23 CHAPTER THREE ADOPTION AND IMPLEMENTATION Background, 23 Airport Experience -- Survey Results and Case Examples, 26 31 CHAPTER FOUR TECHNICAL ISSUES -- CONTRACTS, RESOURCES, AND REQUIREMENTS Background, 31 Airport Experience -- Survey Results and Case Examples, 34 38 CHAPTER FIVE FACILITY LIFE-CYCLE MANAGEMENT Background, 38 Airport Experience -- Survey Results and Case Examples, 41 43 CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSIONS Summary, 43 Trends and Issues, 43 Knowledge Gaps and Future Research, 44 45 REFERENCES 47 BIBLIOGRAPHY 48 APPENDIX A SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE AND CONSOLIDATED RESPONSES 65 APPENDIX B MASSPORT BIM ROADMAP 66 APPENDIX C MASSPORT BIM DECISION MATRIX 67 APPENDIX D LAWA PROJECT REQUIREMENT (PR-20)
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... SUMMARY BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING FOR AIRPORTS Building information modeling (BIM) is a digital representation of a facility's physical and functional characteristics.
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... 2 implementation was noted. Although the BIM activity levels for the airports currently range from low to very high, airports are realizing (basic)
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... 3 CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION The National BIM Standard (NBIMS) defines building information modeling (BIM)
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... 4 FIGURE 1 Example (schematic of BIM) over a facility life cycle (McCuen and Pittenger 2015)
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... 5 Effectively managing facility information from design through demolition for all of the FAA's buildings and systems is a fundamental element of operating and maintaining the NAS. An integral part of the NextGen transformation is to efficiently manage the FAA's Building and System information.
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... 6 A summary of the results is presented in this section to provide a brief description of the survey participants along with respective levels of BIM activity and progressive BIM use. Detailed results will be presented in subsequent chapters.
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... 7 Barriers to BIM Adoption. Some common barriers attributed to BIM adoption, industrywide and cited in this study, are related to (Penn State 2010; Khosrowshahi and Arayici 2012)
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... 8 Based on the questionnaire results, case examples were created with five airports and two AECs, guided by standard protocol (Yin 1994)
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... 9 1. Personnel training, 2.
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... 10 Metrics and Key Performance Indicators Key performance indicators (KPIs) refer to the use of specific data to measure the performance of service delivery against previously defined metrics.
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... 11 escalating costs associated with changes in the construction or operations/maintenance phases if not addressed. Specifically, BIM use helps these airports to mitigate the negative impact on efficiency (e.g., schedule and cost)
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... 12 Some of the performance metrics used by the few airport respondents that assess ROI are listed as follows. Most cited metrics are related to reduced errors and omissions and RFIs, consistent with literature.
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... 13 ity of large capital projects. Therefore, SFOs strategy is to identify specific business cases for stakeholder groups (throughout all life-cycle phases)

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