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Models (BIM): How It Has Changed FM

Ellen Valentine
Pete Zyskowski

For hundreds of years, the vast majority of information about a building has been contained in blueprints and file cabinets. Whenever facility managers and other building operations personnel needed information about a room dimension or a lighting fixture, someone had to go and find the dusty roll of prints or the hard copy manual that contained the needed information. The entrance of the computer era changed everything—providing much needed computer-aided design (CAD) systems that have allowed facility drawings to be stored electronically. The Internet has also made it easier to access operational...

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