BIM-Based H&S Management for Facilities. Operations & Maintenance of Logistic Plants

Valentina Villa; Alberto Lauria; Carlo Caldera

doi:10.6092/issn.2036-1602/8829

Authors

Valentina Villa Politecnico di Torino

Researcher of Construction Management at the Department of Structural, Geotechnical and Building Engineering of the Polytechnic of Turin. Co-director of the course "Information Model Management and Building Information Management", she works in many research projects on BIM implementation.
Alberto Lauria Politecnico di Torino

Contract Professor of "Safety at construction sites" at the Polytechnic of Turin. Vice-President of the Chamber of Engineers of Turin. He deals with health and safety at work in various roles: Coordinator for Safety at the Design and Execution Phase, Head of the Prevention and Protection Service, Fire Prevention, Safety Auditor, Consultant.
Carlo Caldera Politecnico di Torino

Full Professor of Integral Design Department of Structural, Geotechnical and Building Engineering of the Polytechnic of Turin. Permanent member of the College of Building Engineering and Deputy Director of Department. Member of the Master's School and Permanent Training Council. Coordinator of the College of Construction Engineering.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/8829

Keywords:

Industrial plant, Facility Management, Health and Safety, BIM

Abstract

Over the years, international researches about Facility Management has become increasingly important, also thanks to the advent of the BIM methodology which integrates information from all phases of the process, and closes, ideally in a circular way, the life cycle of a building. Within the abundant maintenance operations of the buildings characterizing the Facility Management phase, one of the important aspects is the H&S planning and management for operators and maintenance technicians. This research uses a dynamic BIM-based approach for Health and Safety management during O&M phase, connected to the programmed maintenance cycles, for a historical industrial plant.

The case study presented is the former Fiat plant in Rivalta (TO), currently being converted into a warehouse and logistics facility by the FCA Group. Information comes from the project documents, from the Building Maintenance Plan and from the H&S Maintenance dossier of the building installations should linked together. All of them are going to constitute the information component (LOI) relating to the BIM object. During the construction of the BIM model, the position of each object is valuable information, fundamental for the right choice of equipment and fittings necessary for the correct execution in safe, of maintenance operations. The safety of workplaces is related, for example, to access procedures to intervention area or to the correct selection of fall protection systems.

First, an analysis on information necessary for the management of a safe O&M in a BIM environment is carry out. BIM should not be only a digitizing way for work's file, it's not only a sheet containing processes and procedures identified by the safety coordinator; BIM, in this area, can be used as intelligent tool for risk assessment and, consequently, a methodology that can be used for choosing the most appropriate systems, in order to safeguard the workers H&S.