Digital Built Asset Management

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Digital Built Asset Management

From Theories to Applications

9781035321438 Edward Elgar Publishing
Edited by Qiuchen Lu, Associate Professor, and Michael Pitt, Professor,The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London, UK
Publication Date: October 2024 ISBN: 978 1 03532 143 8 Extent: c 364 pp
This insightful book presents a comprehensive understanding of the new technologies impacting the digital era of built asset and facility management. Informative and accessible, it illustrates how the concepts, principles, strategies and applications of digital built asset management can be improved and implemented in real-life practice.

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This insightful book presents a comprehensive understanding of the new technologies impacting digital built asset and facility management. Informative and accessible, it illustrates how the concepts, principles, strategies and applications of digital built asset management can be improved and implemented in real-life practice.

Bringing together experts in this rapidly developing area, Digital Built Asset Management outlines the fundamentals of the field and explores key aspects such as outsourcing, procurement and maintenance management. Chapter authors discuss digital innovation and its effects on asset management, in particular the efficacy of smart building practices. Highlighting a diverse range of perspectives on asset management, the book concludes by proposing a framework for the future development of digital built asset management, underpinned by a critical analysis of the evolution of technologies such as building information modeling, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and blockchain.

This book is an invaluable resource for students and researchers specialising in digital built asset management, construction management, project management and surveying. Its pairing of theory and real-life practice will also be of use to facility managers and professionals in the trade.
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‘This book is an invaluable resource that bridges the gap between theory and practice. With extensive coverage of fundamental concepts and pragmatic strategies, it is not only a useful reference for future digital built asset management research but also an essential guide for managing built assets in the digital era.’
– Joseph H.K. Lai, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
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1 Overview and principles 1
Jiayi Yan, Qiuchen Lu and Michael Pitt
2 Strategies for digital built asset management 10
Zigeng Fang, Yuting Chen, Dimitrios Rovas, Hasan
Haroglu and Qiuchen Lu
3 Digital innovation and technology development for digital
built asset management 39
Weiwei Chen and Nicola Moretti
4 Environment, health, and safety 67
Juan Wang and Xiao Li
5 Energy and carbon performance evaluation and sustainability 105
Yu Zhang, Long Chen, Xiang Xie, Hao Wu, Xuanjiang
Chen, Zhihe Yang and Daguang Han
6 Digital-enabled space management 130
Ali Rahimian, Jinying Xu and Zijing Zhang
7 Operations and maintenance 161
Jingfeng Zhou, Bingyu Xu, Zigeng Fang, Xiaofeng Zheng,
Rui Tang and Hasan Haroglu
8 Benchmarking best practice of digital built asset management 190
Xuhui Lin, Pengkun Liu, Jiayi Yan and Xuanjiang Chen
9 Facilitating patient-centric thinking in hospital facility
management: a case of pharmaceutical inventory 215
Xiang Xie, Zigeng Fang, Qiuchen Lu, Long Chen, Tan
Tan, Zhen Ye and Michael Pitt
10 Automated portfolio-based strategic asset management
approach based on deep neural image classification 240
Zigeng Fang, Tan Tan, Jiayi Yan, Qiuchen Lu, Michael
Pitt and Sean Hanna
11 Future development of digital built asset management 304
Yifeng Peng, Jingke Hong and Qiuchen Lu
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