BIM for maintenance: smart… or not?
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...
read moreSiveco’s 80th newsletter: our customers speak out!
Welcome to the 80th issue of the “Maintenance in China” newsletter! 80 issues, almost 7 years, over 560 original articles! Since 2015, most articles are also published on our very active WeChat account (sivecochina). The idea behind the newsletter was that, since we are creating content all the time working on customers’ projects, why not share it publicly? By doing so, we would help create awareness of maintenance, an often undervalued or misunderstood discipline.
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Siveco has been working with us at the Recycling & Recovering division of Suez for over a decade now, starting with the construction of our first waste treatment plant in mainland China, one of the world’s largest hazardous waste-to-energy plants, which started operations in Shanghai Chemical Industry Park in 2006. Siveco helped establish the maintenance management system for the plant and has supported us ever since as we developed our China business.
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