BIM for management, operation and maintenance of facilities

scientometric and systematic review

Abstract

In recent years, the analysis of development conditions during the operation
phase has gained attention, specially using Building Information Modeling
(BIM). In this context, this research aims to delineate the frontiers of
knowledge and identify future research directions with regard to the uses of
BIM for the management, operation and maintenance of facilities. A mixed
review method was employed, which combined scientometric analysis and a
systematic literature review. To conduct the review, 4050 publications were
initially retrieved from the Scopus database, which were filtered using the
PRISMA protocol and resulted in 1004 publications to be analyzed. The
frequency of sources and citations and the networks of co-occurrence of
keywords, co-authorship of authors and countries composed the first analysis.
Then, the systematic analysis of the data set was carried out, grouping the
surveys into eight different categories. As a result, it was possible to identify
that the field “BIM for management, operation and maintenance of facilities”
is growing and that the purposes of application in this area have been
expanded, in addition to there being a promising association of emerging
technologies with BIM for this purpose.