From: 8 Steps to Getting Better Construction Documents, Building Operating Management

According to Michael Tardif of “Building Operating Management” magazine, facility managers need to be precise and specific in what they ask for regarding construction deliverables. Here’s how:

Building owners receive project close-out submittals in three formats: drawings and documents, both paper and PDF; structured data in Excel spreadsheets, Sharepoint, or other database formats; and Building Information Models (BIM). Organizing, coordinating, and using this information for operations and maintenance can be a formidable challenge.

It doesn’t have to be that way.

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