The increasing needs and requirements for buildings from people present new chal-lenges and expectations for the facility management (FM) industry. The develop-ment of BIM in the AEC industry gives the tools to cope with those challenges and promises many benefits including cost efficiency. Therefore, academia and industry are both motivated to research the possibilities of BIM integration in FM. Existing practices in the field of facility management already show signs of the in-troduction of BIM. International standards such as COBie attempt to standardize the process of information handover at building commission. One of the central con-cepts of BIM is encompassing the entire lifecycle of a building, therefore BIM based FM is a natural progression of the technology. However, the industry still faces sig-nificant challenges especially in the field of existing buildings. Therefore, this paper investigates and attempts to define a requirements structure for the introduction of BIM based FM for existing buildings. It also makes an assessment of one of the most challenging steps, the Scan-to-BIM process, by undertaking a case study. It is demonstrated that despite fast technological advancement in the field of automation, the available tools still require large amount of manual input. The field of BIM based FM for existing buildings presents challenging research op-portunities which will enable its further implementation in the industry. This thesis finds three most significant topics of further research. These are (1) automation of Scan-to-BIM, (2) integration and interoperability improvement, and (3) requirements definition and system design process.     «

The increasing needs and requirements for buildings from people present new chal-lenges and expectations for the facility management (FM) industry. The develop-ment of BIM in the AEC industry gives the tools to cope with those challenges and promises many benefits including cost efficiency. Therefore, academia and industry are both motivated to research the possibilities of BIM integration in FM. Existing practices in the field of facility management already show signs of the in-troduction of BI...     »