Building information modeling supporting facilities management

The advancements in building information technologies are leading to new approaches and methodologies to work in more collaborative environment. HESMOS is a European FP industry project which goal is to provide a holistic approach for sustainable optimization of energy performance and emission (CO2) through integrated design and simulation, while balancing investment, maintenance and reinvestment costs. The product of HESMOS is an Integrated Virtual Energy Laboratory (IVEL) for energy and emission studies of buildings. The IVEL integrates different tools for design and lifecycle management. This paper describes the integration between the building automation systems (BAS) with the energy-enhanced BIM (eeBIM) using an ontology along with the integration of the facilities management tools of the IVEL platform utilizing web services.