Upgrading and maintaining older buildings is always a challenge. From gutting outdated HVAC and plumbing systems to working around a lack of prior documentation, updating older commercial and residential properties requires meticulous planning and organization.
High-quality restorations, renovations, and retrofits require a full understanding of your building’s lifecycle—its original state, previous renovations and changes, and needed upgrades to bring it into 2025. Below, we’ll discuss how you can effectively integrate Building Lifecycle Management into your restoration project with our team at Planit Engineering.
What is Building Lifecycle Management?
Building Lifecycle Management is a concept that encompasses making decisions about buildings that consider their lifetime costs, from initial design and construction to continued building use and maintenance.
It is intended to give property managers, developers, and other stakeholders a full view of their building’s condition, allowing them to make efficient choices about continued maintenance and future renovations.
To effectively execute this concept in your restoration or renovation, you need to have a detailed understanding of your building’s different lifecycles: the design and construction process and how the building operates post-completion.
Tools like Building Information Modelling and digital twins can make this concept a reality, allowing all stakeholders to collaborate and coordinate their respective sectors into one accessible database, from blueprints to HVAC integration.
Using our Hyper-Intelligent Building Model™, you can work with our team at Planit to adopt these tools into your development plans.
Why Lifecycle Management Matters for Building Restorations and Renovations
To ensure the quality and efficiency of a building’s restoration or renovation, it’s important to fully understand its lifecycle up to that point. This allows you to identify areas of its structure or operational systems that are at risk or could pose a hazard, such as wood rot, structural deterioration, or significantly outdated mechanical rigs.
Early identification also prevents potentially expensive emergency repairs. Based on accurate data on the building’s current condition, upgrades and repairs can be better prioritized.
How Building Lifecycle Management Saves You Time and Money
Building Lifecycle Management is about more than avoiding unnecessary roadblocks in your building’s renovation—it’s also about optimizing your cost savings and creating a more time-efficient operation. BLM allows you to:
- Take proactive measures to prevent expensive emergency repairs
- Budget your building expenses more accurately using reliable data
- Extend your building’s lifespan by delaying costly replacements and maximizing asset value
Planit’s Role in Supporting Building Lifecycle Management
At Planit, we understand the complexities of managing the construction and operation of commercial buildings and facilities. If you’re undergoing a renovation, restoration, or retrofit of an already existing building, embracing Building Lifecycle Management tactics can allow you to approach this project proactively and efficiently.
Our Hyper-Intelligent Building Model™ at Planit can capture detailed data about your building at each stage, from construction planning and designs to operational systems and equipment maintenance.
Using various scan-to-BIM technologies, we can create a comprehensive database for architects, engineers, HVAC specialists, and property owners to enable real-time decision-making.
Optimize Your Building Renovation with Planit
Renovating and restoring a building requires extensive preparation and meticulous planning, but with our team at Planit, you can maximize your efficiency by implementing Building Lifecycle Management into the process.
Contact us today to learn more about how you can benefit from our services!
