Dear Readers, This is Fiona from Siveco China! I hope you have a good time during the summer holiday! Here at Siveco, while our boss Bruno is enjoying a long vacation in France and Italy, we are all pretending to work the best we can. For this summer edition of our newsletter, I would like to share some of our updates, Social Media style.

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Transition from construction to maintenance represents a major challenge in the Chinese market, more particularly when it comes to documentation for Operation & Maintenance (O&M). While building owners find it very difficult to obtain real as-built drawings, equipment documentation is also lacking and maintenance guidelines impossible to find. As a result, FM teams are often left to improvise their maintenance activity, relying on the experience of their team members.

Tianjin Tanggu Sino French Water Supply was formed in 2004 in response to the rapid economic growth of the Tianjin Binhai New Area. Based on the good results obtained by several other joint-ventures of Sino French Water with municipal water groups elsewhere in China, Tanggu Sino French selected Siveco to deploy a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) in order to improve its maintenance practice.

As China is gaining importance in the international markets, Chinese construction firms and major equipment suppliers have become involved in many infrastructure and industrial projects all over the world, and more particularly in Africa. Projects won by Chinese firms include roads, bridges, metro systems, refineries, telecommunication networks, pipelines, etc. These projects, perhaps due to the influence of European consulting firms in these regions, often require a CMMS to be implemented from the construction stage.

Using BIM (Building Information Modelling) for Facilities Lifecycle Management has become a hot topic in the last few years, but it is never implemented in practice. One reason is a lack of understanding of maintenance by design institutes and BIM vendors or related company. Another reason is the lack of suitable technological tools. In this Tips & Trips, we would like to illustrate this integration using the real-life integration made between the Cadmatic design tools and our bluebee® facilities management system.