Category: BIM

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Paving the Way for Sustainable Infrastructure

How performance-based contracts can lead the way with infrastructure sustainability.
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Planting the Seeds of Smart Building Success

Explore how cultivating a smart building mirrors gardening—using the right tools, preparing, and nurturing growth.
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Paris 2024: A New Era of Stadium Management

Stadiums come with their own challenges for FM teams, yet CAFM software helps manage the planning & delivery of hard & soft services.
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Are You Buying Vapourware?

We discuss choosing reliable software to manage growing workloads & provide criteria to avoid vapourware- products with undeveloped features.
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30 Years of FM and SWG

Celebrating our 30th birthday, we look back over the last three decades of our history and the evolution of the FM landscape.
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How Converging Technologies Are Shaping User Experience

We discuss how converging technologies like AI, IoT, and BIM can enhance operational efficiency, occupant comfort & maintenance strategies.
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How to Utilise AI for Building Maintenance and Management

Our latest blog outlines the potential of AI to enhance building maintenance and efficiencies through automation and data analysis.
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Retrofitting BIM: Creating Better Buildings

This blog explores the benefits of utilising BIM technology to improve the day-to-day management of an estate as well as the potential health and safety implications.
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5 Top Tips for Better Maintenance

Our latest blog reveals 5 top tips and essential strategies to enhance asset performance, minimise downtime, and boost productivity.
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The Digital Twin Maturity Journey

This page will provide an overview of Digital Twins, including the five steps of Digital Twin evolution, their potential and accessibility.
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The Importance of Proactive Maintenance

Discover the types of proactive maintenance, the benefits of each strategy and why safeguarding with a digital model can prove vital.
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The Role That FMs Have in Achieving Sustainability Goals

The FM sector has a huge role to play in the decarbonisation of buildings. How can technology help achieve sustainability targets by managing buildings more efficiently?
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2022 in Review – What Were the Priorities in FM?

As the year draws to a close, we’re taking a look back at what aspects of facilities management most interested those in the sector over the last 12 months.
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“I Don’t Have Time for More Systems!” The Myth of Time-Intensive Technology

How the ‘little challenges’ solved by tech can be magnified throughout a business, repaying the initial time spent on implementation manifold.
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Beginner’s Guide to BIM and Digitisation

This guide will explain everything you need to know about BIM and digitisation, including the benefits and how they are used in FM; as well as some useful resources for further further reading.
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A Guide to Facilities Management Technology Acronyms

Even the most experienced professionals can be tripped up by an acronym. Here's a run through of some of the more common terms.
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Improving Sustainability Through CAFM

How CAFM software can help organisations to help improve sustainability, and the new innovations being developed to help FMs meet green targets.
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Top 5 Benefits of BIM in FM

Why is BIM growing in facilities management? Read our top five benefits of BIM for FM teams.
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BIM and the Golden Thread

What is the golden thread and how can it improve building safety? We look at how BIM is involved in the process, and the viability of BIM adoption in FM.
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BIM for 3 Types of Property Owner

A look at how developers, landlords and facility managers use BIM to meet their different requirements.
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Why a Digital Twin is the Next Big Thing

FMs are keen to invest in technology like sensors, IoT and BIM. With this in mind, the next big thing in FM is likely to be the ‘digital twin’.
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What to Consider When Digitising Existing Buildings

Many FMs want to work more digitally when managing their building information. Find out how to make that step from an idea to reality in this blog.
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2019 in Review – What Were the Priorities in FM?

New Year is a time of reflection, and we’re looking back on the priorities for facilities management professionals over the last 12 months.
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BIM for FM Webinar – an Overview

Service Works Global’s ‘BIM for FM’ webinar this week showed the practical side of how building information modelling (BIM) can be used within FM.
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BIM – Digitising Information for Existing Buildings

A wealth of operational information available at your fingerprints with BIM after the release of ISO 19650.
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Data Integration – Eliminating the Middle Man from FM Services

Insight from Service Works’ FM Software Survey 2018 has revealed that FM professionals are being smarter with their use of technology.
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QFM User Group Summary

A look at the QFM User Group held in London last week, including guest client speakers from Luton & Dunstable NHS Trust and Anabas.
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2017 in Review – What Were the Key Priorities in FM?

2017 was a year of change and discovery for facilities management, but which subjects were most important to FMs?
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Are You BIM Ready?

BIM is becoming more widely used throughout the world and facilities management is reaping the benefits - although implementation hasn't been as easy as perceived.
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Technology and Automation – The Effects on a Global Scale

Following last week’s article on automation and robotics, SWG presents a wider picture of technology in FM using research from our global FM software surveys.
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Digital Transformation in FM

Is technology just another fad, unlikely to deliver long term sustainable benefits? Samantha Fuller, General Manager of SWG Asia Pacific took to the stage to debate this question.
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APAC FM Software Survey – Preview

Service Works releases some emerging trends from the FM Software Survey in advance of the full analysis.
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How Smart Technology is Affecting Facilities Management

2017 will be a big year for smart technology in facilities management, powered by the rise of connectivity through the Internet of Things, or IoT.
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How Does BIM Benefit Facilities Managers?

BIM is a topic that should be high on the agenda of many FMs, but is often misunderstood. What is BIM and what are the benefits?
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