by Brianna Crandall — October 9, 2015—Rand Worldwide, a global provider of technology solutions to organizations with engineering design and information technology requirements, has just announced that its professional services and technology division IMAGINiT Technologies is releasing a new addition to the IMAGINiT Clarity family of products intended to give facilities managers access to building information modeling (BIM) data for greater value throughout the entire building life cycle.
Clarity ODP distributes data to non-Revit users to integrate with enterprise FM software systems including ARCHIBUS.
The new addition, Clarity Owner Data Portal (ODP), combines the popular benefits of Clarity with powerful tools for organizations to distribute data to non-Revit users and integrate with enterprise facilities management (FM) software systems including ARCHIBUS.
“The findings from our recent ‘Insights into BIM and FM’ survey clearly pointed to a gap that needs to be bridged between BIM and facilities management,” says Joe Eichenseer, director of the Building Lifecycle Solutions team at IMAGINiT.
“More than half of the building owners surveyed did not know how to mine critical data from their building information model,” continues Eichenseer. “And only 27 percent of AEC firms knew what type of BIM information would be useful for owners and facility managers. Clarity Owner Data Portal addresses this disconnect by allowing owners to query the model and extract useful data that can be easily imported into their facility management system.”
Building information models contain a wealth of data that is gathered throughout the design and construction phases. Unfortunately for facilities managers, that data is locked inside the model, and without an in-depth knowledge of Autodesk Revit and the infrastructure necessary to run the Revit software, its value to the FM is often overlooked, notes IMAGINiT.
Bridging the gap between BIM and FM
IMAGINiT Clarity ODP addresses the gaps by allowing owners and FMs to:
- Easily access and edit model information via a Web browser;
- Automatically generate COBie export files for import into other systems; and
- Directly integrate with ARCHIBUS.
In addition, Clarity ODP also saves facilities managers hours of manual work by allowing them to query the model for information on assets and rooms. By setting rules specifying what data is important, FMs can produce building-centric, graphical reports that identify assets and their locations within the building.
With the ability to edit data individually or in batches and “round trip” it back into the Revit model, the FM team stays up to date with the most recent as-built model.
More information and availability
For FMs interested in learning more about IMAGINiT Clarity ODP and its impact on the relationship between BIM and FM, the company is offering a two-minute video on YouTube.
IMAGINiT directors are also offering live demonstrations of Clarity OPD’s data sharing and distribution features this week (October 7-9) at booth 576 at IFMA’s World Workplace conference in Denver, Colorado.
All IMAGINiT Clarity products are available with perpetual licensing or on a term basis for those who want to use the tools for a specific timeframe.
