ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT An increasing demand in social & professional connectivity fuelled by the pressures of rapidly evolving technological advances is placing great demands on current Facilities Management (FM) information technologies to deliver more interactive data and knowledge management to facilitate decision making processes. As a result, the industry is rapidly moving away from traditional silo mentality, introducing and adopting a plethora of intelligent/smart systems with the intention of interlinking and clarifying information across the various disciplines within the industry. The objective of this paper is to identify the key asset data/information exchange challenges in an FM centric environment and consider how the application of Semantic technologies can be used to delivers significant value to FM operations. A case study undertaken to identify the key asset information exchange challenges in a specific hospital building found that these could be attributed to the lack of; a single, centralised and relational repository system, communication between the FM inter-departmental teams and software integration across FM asset management systems.
