Cost Analysis of Equipment in a Building Using BIM-based Methods

The cost of the operation stage in a project life cycle is much higher than that of other stages in the building lifecycle. Efficient use of facility management can save money. However, the information of the traditional facility management cannot effectively be employed, which in turn affects the quality of the facility management. The emerging technology of building information modelling provides an opportunity to overcome the difficulties of utilizing the information stored by means of facility management. In this paper, the Revit@ platform has been used to build up a BIM model relating to the facility management. Through the Revit API, computer implementation has been developed, based on the programming language C#. This computer implementation can extract the information regarding the costs of equipment from the BIM model. Such information can be further analyzed to support decision making.