Readiness of facilities management company to implement building information modelling as maintenance strategy in higher education / Ashman Arief Zamri and Aida Affina Abdul Ghani

BIM, also known as n-D Modelling or Virtual Prototyping Technology, is an innovation that is leading information technology in the Architecture-Engineering-Construction (AEC) business. BIM is a technology as well as a method. BIM technology assists project stakeholders in visualizing what is to be created in a simulated environment to detect any possible design, construction, or operational difficulties. The problems statement for this research are Building Information Technology are not familiar among the maintenance team in Malaysia and most companies do not use Building Information Technology (BIM) in their maintenance work. Next, the objective why this thesis needs to be done are to assess the readiness of FM company in using BIM as the maintenance strategy at higher education institutions, to elicit the function of BIM in maintenance work and to determine the benefit of BIM in strategizing the maintenance work. Research uses questionnaire and focus group methods to assess Malaysian higher education facilities management's use of Building Information Modelling in building maintenance.