Purpose and description

Building Archive

MainManager has designed a special process for easy setup of all types of facilities such as ex. buildings, floors, spaces and open areas. The user can also create technical systems with predefined components, locate them in the building, connect documents to the structure and finally validate all the data.

Data for buildings and building components can be created in MainManager either from national register (through API), BIM import, Excel import, manually or via import of polygonised CAD drawings. Often there is a combination of these methods that the customers use.

The process is divided into steps that each has its own documentation.

Also you might want to take a look at our newest release notes for Building Archive here.

Overview

Building archive is a special process for recording the entire property structure and relevant object information. That is, sites, buildings, outdoor areas and building parts/technical systems. This registration is the basis for all FM processes and for navigating the system.

<Navigator> in MM interface (system can be set to also display region as first part of Navigator (Navigating between sites and objects in the system)

In MM terminology, all parts of the site structure are called <objects> in <object structure>.

Diagram for object structure

The chart shows the different objects belonging to a property / site. Note that <Asset/ Equipment> is not part of the building archive. It is part of module <Equipment /Asset Management>

Diagram of how <housing> is connected to the location structure (see more detail in Chapter Housing and module <Property Management>

Each object has a defined <object type> which is also an important term in MM. Many important information can be connected to object types.

The top step of the object structure is <Property/site>. All other objects belong to a property. Property belongs to a <Range> but may belong to one or more <Portfolios>

Portfolio is a fundamental dimension of the system used for access management of data, but the most important purpose is filtering data across properties.

GIS map

Objects in the object structure can have a geographic location (GIS coordinate or GIS polygon). Typically, GIS locations on properties/sites and buildings come from address register but the location can be edited (see chapter on GIS). By allowing objects to gain geographical location then opens opportunities for navigation using GIS maps but also to display all connected data in the different processes on maps.

Properties/sites showed on a map

Interactive drawings

Other widely used graphical tool for navigating and displaying data is interactive 2D drawings that are connected to objects in the object structure. Creating and maintaining these drawings is also part of the Building Archive.

BIM models

3D BIM models are becoming more and more used in FM processes. MM object structure can be integrated with elements of BIM models which make use of BIM models possible in all the different FM processes. The step <BIM machining> is focused on processing BIM models in MM.