Lean Management Framework for Healthcare Facilities Integrating BIM, BEPS and Big Data Analytics

Gökhan Demirdöğen, Zeynep Işık and Yusuf Arayici
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Gökhan Demirdöğen: Department of Civil Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul 34220, Turkey
Zeynep Işık: Department of Civil Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul 34220, Turkey
Yusuf Arayici: Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle NE1 8ST, UK

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 17, 1-33

Abstract: An increase in the usage of information and communication technologies (ICT) and the Internet of Things (IoT) in Facility Management (FM) induces a huge data stack. Even though these data bring opportunities such as cost savings, time savings, increase in user comfort, space optimization, energy savings, inventory management, etc., these data sources cannot be managed and manipulated effectively to increase efficiency at the FM stage. In addition to data management issues, FM practices, or developed solutions, need to be supported with the implementation of lean management philosophy to reveal organizational and managerial wastes. In the literature, some researchers performed studies about awareness about building information modeling (BIM)-FM, and FM-related data management problems in terms of lean philosophy. However, the comprehensive solution for effective FM has not been investigated with the application of lean management philosophy yet. Therefore, this study aims to develop an FM framework for healthcare facilities by considering lean management philosophy since more stable workflow, continuous improvement, and creating more value to customers will help to deliver a more acceptable solution for the FM industry. Within this context, the integration of BIM, Building Energy Performance Simulations, and Big Data Analytics are proposed as a solution. In the study, the Design Science Research (DSR) methodology was followed to develop the FM framework. Depending on the DSR methodology, two scenarios were used to investigate the issue in a real healthcare facility and develop the FM framework. The developed framework was evaluated by four experts, and the revisions of the proposed framework were realized.

Keywords: Building Information Modeling (BIM); Building Energy Performance Simulations (BEPS); Big Data Analytics (BDA) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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