BIM for management, operation and maintenance of facilities: scientometric and systematic review

Abstract

In recent years, the analysis of development conditions during the operation phase has gained attention, specially using Building Information Modeling (BIM). In this context, this research aims to delineate the frontiers of knowledge and identify future research directions with regard to the uses of BIM for the management, operation and maintenance of facilities. A mixed review method was employed, which combined scientometric analysis and a systematic literature review. To conduct the review, 4050 publications were initially retrieved from the Scopus database, which were filtered using the PRISMA protocol and resulted in 1004 publications to be analyzed. The frequency of sources and citations and the networks of co-occurrence of keywords, co-authorship of authors and countries composed the first analysis. Then, the systematic analysis of the data set was carried out, grouping the surveys into eight different categories. As a result, it was possible to identify that the field “BIM for management, operation and maintenance of facilities” is growing and that the purposes of application in this area have been expanded, in addition to there being a promising association of emerging technologies with BIM for this purpose.

Keywords:
BIM-FM; Building Information Modeling; Facilities management; Operation & maintenance; Systematic literature review