Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Greenfield, Phase I
(as pictured in this
aerial rendering)
demonstrates that a
COBie-based building
information exchange
can be successfully
implemented across a
broad range of facility
types.
Spare,
Job and
Resource Tabs
COBie Data Imported
Product Data Manager (PDM): into IWMS
Design Data Data Validation & Aggregation Merged COBie File from PDM
Document Repository
PDM Checks
Documents Are
Complete and
Properly Named
Documents
Field
Contractor Product Data
Technology
Forms (CPDFs)
Figure 2: In this illustration, the Product Data Manager validates and aggregates data from many sources and produces the record COBie files for
data handover for Project Greenfield.
data fields on the COBie contact, facility, want to determine if the equipment approved by the design team confirm
floor, space, type and component data is performing to the manufacturer’s manufacturer names, model numbers
tables. In the standard COBie Excel specifications. Typically, this equipment and performance characteristics of any
template (download from www.nibs. performance information (e.g., equipment. Component data—serial
org/?page=bsa_cobiemm), these capacity, flow rate, etc.) is provided numbers, barcodes, installed dates,
columns are colored yellow and orange. as part of the product submittals from etc.—should be captured once the
In addition, the Document tab relates trade contractors. In these instances, equipment is in place.
electronic document files to each information can be captured as a COBie For Project Greenfield, the general
equipment type (e.g., O&M manuals, document related to each equipment contractor was required to record Job,
warranties, asset photos, training type, or as additional type information, Resource and Spare COBie data for
videos), while the Spare tab captures and recorded on the COBie Attribute tab. all required equipment types so that
spare parts data. Many owners also want to know FMCTI’s IWMS could be populated with
Life-safety equipment, such as fire whether the supplied equipment preventive maintenance procedures,
extinguishers, is an important category meets the design specifications. This special tools required and spare parts.
of equipment to track with COBie as it requires capturing design data from This necessary manual entry from
requires periodic inspection or testing. the architect/engineer equipment O&M manuals and parts lists was
Building owners should know the schedules and, possibly, from the received during the last few months of
location and quantity of such assets design specifications. construction.
to support both the scheduling and Additionally, special, owner- However, once a product has been
tracking of inspections and testing. supplied equipment may be included approved, the contractor should capture
Another consideration in defining the in a project. In the case of Project this data promptly—even better would be
scope of required information is that the Greenfield, this included industrial if such information is supplied in COBie
owner may outsource the provisioning process equipment. format by the equipment manufacturer.
and/or maintenance of some assets to In addition, Division 1 contract
third parties, such as furniture installers, When Should Information language required very specific
food-service operators, etc. These assets Be Captured? deliverables that tied the release of
may appear in the design models but Design intent data should be captured subcontractor retainage to COBie
may not need to be included in a COBie during the construction documents data delivery. Division 1 also required
dataset if they are not going to be tracked (CD) phase of design, and updated adherence to a COBie execution plan
and maintained in the owner’s IWMS. after any addenda or alternates are (CEP)—a variant of a BIM execution
accepted following procurement. plan—focusing on data. Key CEP topics
Who Produces the Information? Final COBie Type information is best included:
If there is a problem with a piece of captured during the product submittals • Roles and responsibilities.
equipment, most facility managers process early in construction. Submittals • Naming conventions and content.
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in a machine-readable, standard,
structured format.
• This data can be delivered before
closeout and loaded quickly into an
ULTRA
IWMS, CMMS or facility management
system.
• Once turned over, the COBie data
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