The use of “smart” BIM for O&M meets practical “dumb” challenges, especially in the Chinese market where maintenance practices are not well established. Useful lessons can however be learnt from experience and standards used in the industry. A project role must be created for O&M data preparation, first to define specifications, formats, schedules before major equipment contracts are signed, then to follow up data preparation activities during construction. As far as software is concerned, a practical advice is to avoid conflicts with project teams and software vendors: instead, an O&M layer added onto the BIM model can provide the necessary support. Examples of projects in environmental utilities and buildings in mainland China and Hongkong are...

After a quiet summer, September proved to be full of action for the Siveco team. We attended three major utilities events to share our experience implementing Smart O&M solutions in Chinese infrastructure projects. Around each of the events, we also arranged specific meetings with local clients.

The current environmental protection industry presents such characteristics as: massive investments, rapid construction, difficult commissioning and lack of skilled personnel. The industry as a whole looks flourishing. Environmentalists’ social media posts of are full of signing ceremonies for all sorts of new contracts, public-private cooperation gatherings and handsome poses traveling around the world.

Kerneos (China) Aluminate Technologies Co. Ltd, operates three special aluminate cement plants in Tianjin, Zhengzhou and Guiyang. Kerneos management team proposed the forward-looking plan to establish a maintenance information system to control all maintenance activities.

Historically, large infrastructure owners have worked with system integrators for their IT projects, due to their complexity and size. As a result, Siveco has gained a lot of experience working with such partners, providing Maintenance 4.0 and Smart O&M software, as well as specialist maintenance consulting.

On September 21, the Siveco team took the plane to Guizhou for a 5-day trip during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Guizhou province, located in southwestern China, is world-famous for mountain tourism. During this trip, we started from the western part of Guizhou to the east, passing through many famous attractions.