Building documentation
We create your building documentation
Data preparation, concept creation and continuation of the as-built documentation into usage documentation: we ensure that your building documentation meets all requirements and is also easy to use as a digital file, facilitating the future maintenance and servicing of your building and thus avoiding unnecessary costs.
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Things to know about building documentation
What is building documentation?
The building documentation includes all information required for the use and maintenance of buildings. It is based on the principles of facility management (FM) and maps the life cycle of a building for sensible building management.
Building documentation as the basis for successful facility management
Modern buildings are becoming increasingly complex. Equipped with high-quality technology, they are designed to adapt flexibly to the requirements of changing users. This development not only increases the challenges for building planners, but also for documentation: in order to be able to control the building technology at all and rule out damage due to incorrect use, care and maintenance, complete and up-to-date documentation of the building and the system technology is absolutely essential.
Separation of building documentation into construction and usage documentation
During the construction of a building, completely different people are usually involved than when it is subsequently commissioned. During this change, a large part of the important information can be lost due to inadequate interfaces – which can lead to problems later on. Separating the building documentation into two parts, for construction and for use, can significantly improve the flow of information and prevent unnecessary damage caused by incorrect use and maintenance.
Optimum facility management over the entire service life
Facility management, i.e. the technical, commercial and infrastructural processes involved in the management and maintenance of a building, is dependent on good information management, in which all data and plans for a building are available in an organized and legible form in a suitable location.
Such efficient information management, which ensures that all relevant documents can be found quickly, not only prevents damage due to maintenance backlogs or faulty repairs, but also ensures that the value of your investment remains stable: in the complete life cycle of a building, only around 20 percent of the costs are incurred during construction, but 80 percent during operation. More economical maintenance with the help of suitable, two-part building documentation increases value retention, service life and therefore your benefit from the building.
Legal regulations and standards for building documentation
The documentation guideline of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning is a basic aid for compiling data on buildings and properties. It describes in some detail how data on planning, construction, building maintenance and management are to be prepared and stored so that they facilitate subsequent maintenance and repair work and prevent damage to the building. The more efficient method demanded by the government today is the BIM method. BIM is already a reality today, the working method is already mandatory in many neighboring countries and in Germany, too, there are more and more projects, especially from private developers, in which BIM is used.
BIM - Building data modeling
BIM, written out: Building Information Modelingis a working method in the construction industry. The idea is not new: the basic concept of BIM has been around since the 1970s (Eastman, 1974 and Eastman, 2011).
BIM is defined as follows:
“Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a planning method in the construction industry that involves the creation and management of digital virtual representations of the physical and functional properties of a building. The building models represent a database of information about the building in order to provide a reliable source for decisions throughout the entire life cycle, from initial preliminary planning to demolition.”
Source: National Building Information Model Standard Project Committee (NBIMS), the technical committee of the National Institute for Building Sciences (NIBS)
The aim of the BIM method is to centrally manage as much project-relevant information as possible, including links to the relevant documentation.
According to the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, BIM is to be used for major new federal transport infrastructure projects by 2020 [Q.: Implementation of the phased plan for digital planning and construction, January 2017].
The advantages of digitized standardized documentation are
- Improved quality of data based on a common database
- Synchronization of files, e.g. in the event of changes to building equipment and thus continuous data preparation throughout the entire life cycle of a building
- Greater schedule and cost certainty thanks to improved change management
- Increasing the quality of project information through flexible visualization based on the models
- Facilitate documentation management throughout the entire life cycle of a building
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Martin Tillmann
Managing Director
Dipl.-Ing. Mechanical Engineering
DIN EN ISO / IEC 17024 certified expert for
CE conformity assessment and technical documentation