Facilities Management with Revit

[Clyne Curtis]

Hey All,

Just returned from the National Collegiate CADD Conference where university CAD Managers like myself gather and attend classes (kinda like a mini AU) on how we can do our jobs better. I was pleasantly surprised to see that many universities have their interest piqued in regards to Revit. Several universities, including our own, are in the process of converting their building database files into Revit models. To make a long story longer, as a member of the Executive Board for the conference, I have been asked to conduct several training labs next year on utilizing Revit for facilities management. As I will probably be picking your brains during the next year, I just wanted to give you a heads up! I have followed all the previous threads on this subject, but if anybody has any additional experiences or input, I would value your ideas. Thanks all for the great forum!

Clyne
Brigham Young University

[christie.landry]

Clyne,

Feel free to contact me if I can be of any help. It sounds like a great opportunity for education.

[Tom Dorner]

I know I have posted on this subject before, but in our trying to do facilities management and lease management with Revit we are missing the database field format of "date" so we can sort, group, color fill etc. by "date". A simple text field to hold a "free form" date does not work for us.

It is THE one thing I need before I can go any further with selling Revit as an FM or LM tool to our clients. I hope that in 7.0 the "date" field is there.

Tom

[Wanderer]

Hey All,

Just returned from the National Collegiate CADD Conference where university CAD Managers like myself gather and attend classes (kinda like a mini AU) on how we can do our jobs better. I was pleasantly surprised to see that many universities have their interest piqued in regards to Revit. Several universities, including our own, are in the process of converting their building database files into Revit models. To make a long story longer, as a member of the Executive Board for the conference, I have been asked to conduct several training labs next year on utilizing Revit for facilities management. As I will probably be picking your brains during the next year, I just wanted to give you a heads up! I have followed all the previous threads on this subject, but if anybody has any additional experiences or input, I would value your ideas. Thanks all for the great forum!

Clyne
Brigham Young University
If you need a guinea pig, you can use my facility. ;) Although I was told at last year's au revit mixer that it might be too large for Revit's current capabilities. (6 mil sq ft)

[Wes Macaulay]

If you need a guinea pig, you can use my facility. ;) Although I was told at last year's au revit mixer that it might be too large for Revit's current capabilities. (6 mil sq ft)Hey no problem if there's no walls inside it. Daahaa haha

[Alex Page]

Im interested researching using Revit as a facilities management program for one of our major international clients in relation to maintaining there commerical office fitouts throughout the asia-pacific region (ie NZ/ Australia up to japan incl China) - any updates on this tread/ articles/ thoughts????

[Wanderer]

Im interested researching using Revit as a facilities management program for one of our major international clients in relation to maintaining there commerical office fitouts throughout the asia-pacific region (ie NZ/ Australia up to japan incl China) - any updates on this tread/ articles/ thoughts????
going to AU this year? they have a most robust FM track, including this first of a kind course...

FM11-1: Developing Facilities Plans with Autodesk Revit
Session Type: 1.5 hr. Class
Date: November 28
Start Time: 08:00 AM
End Time: 09:30 AM
Expertise: All Levels
Track: Facilities Management
Conference Type(s): AU


Description: This course will lay out the capabilities of Revit as a
facilities planning system. You'll learn how to create space plans, employee
tracking, and creating charge-back analysis from the data.


Topics Covered
- Space planning
- Employee designators
- Setting up data
- Pulling data out of the software
- Creating useable information from the data


Who Should Attend
Revit users wanting to understand how to use the software as a
facilities application.
Speaker(s): Denise Cahill

http://www.autodeskevents.com/au2005/index.cfm?action=session.list&trackID=428 (http://www.autodeskevents.com/au2005/index.cfm?action=session.list&trackID=428)

[Alex Page]

Im based in New Zealand - but would absolutely LOVE to get hold of these lecture notes!

[Wesley]

Alex,

Give me a buzz in mid-December and I'll shoot you a copy. I am going to AU, and am also doing some work with Autodesk in regards to FM for APAC useage.

Regards,
Wes
wbenn at benndesign.com.au

[Wanderer]

Alex,

Give me a buzz in mid-December and I'll shoot you a copy. I am going to AU, and am also doing some work with Autodesk in regards to FM for APAC useage.

Regards,
Wes
wbenn at benndesign.com.auWes, pardon my slowness, but, I have this thing for acronyms... what precisely does APAC stand for?
thanks.

[blads]

Wes, pardon my slowness, but, I have this thing for acronyms... what precisely does APAC stand for?
thanks. I'd hazard a guess at saying it = Asia Pacific Autodesk Centre or something along those lines

[cosmickingpin]

asia-pacific region= APAC


Wes, pardon my slowness, but, I have this thing for acronyms... what precisely does APAC stand for?
thanks.

[Wanderer]

Ah, I see. Thanks Blads and Cosmick. :mrgreen: