by AF 1113f3 — Penobscot Bay Media (PenBay), in partnership with ESRI and other organizations from the facilities management and GIS communities, has played a significant role in developing and publishing a data model for creating, storing, and sharing information about structures and their assets, according to PenBay.
The Building Interior Space Data Model (BISDM) is GIS-based and helps companies share data and collaborate with other technologies for improved real property, asset and facilities management. Additionally, the model can be extended for other uses, such as, landscape-level planning and site selection, building-level energy and environmental management, as well as security and emergency preparedness.
Traditionally, computer-aided design (CAD) and Building Information Modeling (BIM) technologies have focused on the building, but made no accommodation for information about the larger, exterior landscape within which buildings and building systems operate. By comparison, the core strengths of GIS are managing information about and applying spatial analysis tools to objects and locations on the earth.
However, historically GIS technology made no accommodation for building interiors and the built environment. This data model and the applications that use it will overcome this artificial barrier by allowing GIS, computer-aided facility management/integrated workplace management (CAFM/IWM), and BIM systems to tightly integrate data and workflows from a national and global level down to an individual office or workspace.
With all of this data pulled together into a single geospatially enabled facility information management system (FIMS), facility management and real property professionals can use the powerful GIS query, analysis, reporting, and visualization capabilities to get a faster, more accurate assessment of all their facility assets.
For more information visit ESRI Web site.
