Reasons for a facilities team to switch to Revit/BIM

[Anonymous]

I'm working for a large company where several departments can see reason to switch from AutoCAD to BIM.  My issue is that one specific department (Facilities/ CAFM) is resisting, saying that AutoCAD works fine for them.

This department's current process is to receive CAD drawings from a general contractor (who converted Revit drawings to CAD for this team) and process these drawings in AutoCAD to be used in a seperate program (Archibus).  They have several CAD draftsman to keep up with this processing, which is mainly tracing key properties with a poly-line, putting labels on rooms, and putting desk locations/numbers in place.  The purpose is to have a nice UI through Archibus for employees to see desk positions etc.

I'm looking for ideas on how the CAFM / Facilities team will benefit from using BIM.  What are some BIM capabilities that they might find useful? 

- Building a small Revit Library with repeatable properties (E.G: standard desk setups: ability to change standing desk height, change out several pieces of equipment on the desk and track totals with a BOM)

- Tracking maintenance schedules of high value items like printers, appliances, HVAC etc

What creative ideas can you come up with?

Thanks 

[Sahay_R]

1. being able to split up large projects into smaller models that can be linked together
2. collaboration across disciplines, now that Revit has become an industry standard
3. savings of time - not having to draw separate sections and elevations
4. wealth of materials and resources available on the web
5. intelligence of objects used
6. ease of preparing schedules, material take offs, etc

These are to name some.....

[ToanDN]

If you only use Revit to create floor layouts, furniture/equipment inventory and schedules then it is better than AutoCAD but not a whole lot.

It only shines when you can integrate BIM data (assuming you will be provided with LOD 4.0 models at the minimum) with some Facility management program such as Building Ops.