ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the benefits of a building information modelling (BIM)-driven approach for urban land administration. It highlights the advantages of a BIM-driven urban land administration for managing facilities, particularly communal assets, in multi-story buildings. The chapter also describes major technical and institutional challenges that could be faced in the adoption of a BIM-driven approach in land administration practices. The BIM environment provides the ability to model the spatial structure of legal arrangements and connective boundary relationships which supports the practice of using a building’s physical structure to define the legal ownership of properties. The full extent of the legal spaces defining common properties can be visually communicated in the BIM environment. The chapter aims to compare various legal boundaries inside the prototype BIM models with their counterparts delineated in the current 2D-based practice. Modeling 3D digital legal boundaries within the BIM environment could also support the facility management industry in repairing, operating, and maintaining assets within multistory buildings.
