Building Information Model and Optimization Algorithms for Supporting Campus Facility Maintenance Management: A Case Stu
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pISSN 1226-7988, eISSN 1976-3808 www.springer.com/12205
DOI 10.1007/s12205-020-0219-7
Construction Management
Building Information Model and Optimization Algorithms for Supporting Campus Facility Maintenance Management: A Case Study of Maintaining Water Dispensers Li-Hsi Yanga, Liuya Xua, Wei-Chih Wanga, and Shih-Hsu Wangb a
Dept. of Civil Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsin-Chu 300, Taiwan Dept. of Civil Engineering, R.O.C Military Academy, Kaohsiung 830, Taiwan
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ABSTRACT
Received 6 February 2020 Revised 25 May 2020 Accepted 3 August 2020 Published Online29 October 2020
Effective management for the maintenance of water dispensers dispersed throughout an academic campus is essential for ensuring the quality of drinking water. Conventionally, water dispenser maintenance is conducted approximately bimonthly or when a passive fault notice is obtained. This maintenance frequency usually results in ineffective allocation of maintenance staff and poor maintenance quality. This study proposes a new model for campus facility maintenance management that enables maintenance staff to maintain water dispensers at the optimal time and select the shortest maintenance path. The proposed model was developed using the maintenance information of the Construction Operations Building Information Exchange obtained from building information models of multiple buildings, water dispenser operation data from a water dispenser monitoring module, and an optimization algorithm developed by integrating Dijkstra’s algorithm, simulated annealing, and a genetic algorithm to identify the shortest maintenance path. The proposed model was tested on a campus in Northern Taiwan. The application results revealed that maintenance strategies could be systematically established to determine the optimal time to dispatch maintenance staff based on the lowest unit cost criterion; this approach was also used to identify the shortest maintenance path through multiple buildings.
KEYWORDS Campus facility maintenance management Water dispenser Building information model Optimization algorithm Shortest maintenance path
1. Introduction The campus of a college or university resembles a small city and has many features, such as buildings, doors, windows, metal trusses, fire systems, air conditioners, electricity, lighting fixtures, and water dispensers. These features must operate effectively to maintain the daily activities of campus occupants, including students, teachers, and staff members, for the promotion of education and research. Because of the increasing number of requirements for daily life activities and the diversity of building facilities, maintenance of these building facilities is becoming increasingly complex and requires additional costs and personnel power. For example, Devetakovic and Radojevic (2007) and Teicholz (2013) have indicated that the cost and time related to the operation and maintenance of a building often account for the largest proportion of the total life cycle (more than 80%). Thus, in a cam
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