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Phase 04 – Operation and maintenance · Building information

Asset survey

Spatial, structural and technical survey · Laser Scanning

We find out what is really in your buildings: spaces, equipment, structures and their condition. While an inventory counts how much of what you have, an asset survey also records where exactly it is and what condition it is in.

No regulation prescribes the content of the survey – the scope of data collected in the field is determined by the purpose it will serve, not by technical possibilities. Based on the organisation’s information strategy, we establish which decisions the collected information should support.

The purposes of use also drive how the information is collected and in what form it is delivered: geodetic measurement or laser scanning, an asset information model ready for implementation into CAFM, or a basis for another purpose.

When to address this

  • Equipment records live in several spreadsheets and none of them matches reality. Nobody can say how many pieces of equipment are in the building and where exactly they are.
  • The documentation does not match reality; changes after final approval were never recorded.
  • You want to plan inspections and renewals, or you are selling or buying a building – and have no evidence of what is in it and what condition it is in.
  • Or an archive cataloguing exercise showed you which parts of the building lack documentation, and it needs to be obtained anew.

Deliverables

  • Spatial survey – floors, rooms and areas recorded in the open IFC standard
    • The foundation everything else attaches to: equipment, leases and cleaning
    • An input for the next project – you don’t pay for the measurement twice
  • Structural survey – building structures and elements with material, age and condition recorded during the walkthrough
  • Technical and technological survey – equipment with stable identification, assignment to spaces and attributes in an unambiguous structure
  • A full asset information model (AIM) – together, the surveys are not three annexes but one connected model
    • In the level of detail required by the purposes of use – for specific decisions
    • Ready for implementation into an operational tool, for example CAFM
    • Photo documentation linked to individual elements
    • Every element labelled in the field with a QR code
  • Further connections – the evaluation of condition, priorities and costs continues in the audits service by building the maintenance and investment plan

Scope can be narrowed

The whole building doesn’t have to be surveyed at once. Common entry points: a spatial survey without equipment as a first step, a single group of equipment – typically building services with inspections or end of service life looming – or a pilot on one floor to validate the data scope before ordering the rest.

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