System and method for managing facility content and equipment information

Abstract

A system and method that provides a unique building maintenance tool which leverages the information collected during the design and construction phase of the building lifecycle. User access BIMs, Revit schedules and other data sources within the unique construction process to provide clients with a post occupancy view previously unobtainable. The solution provides for simple integration with external data sources through data file import or direct integration. The intent of the data integration model is to reduce costs of ongoing implementations providing a scalable model. Mobile access to information is a central component of customer appeal and will be a focal point of the design process. With the present invention mobile users can use mobile devices to scan 2 dimensional barcodes or QR Codes or other georeferencing technologies including RFIDs, thereby using the mobile device as the primary navigation portal to room and equipment information and images. The present invention provides building management functionality by leveraging extracted building data of a database constructed from construction process data as a basis for data organization, which includes detailed equipment specifications.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method for managing facility content data for building management in a customer client network environment comprising the steps of:
 executing content enterprise resource planning systems and web services applications residing on a content network server communicably coupled with a file server function, a database server function with associated computer readable storage medium and data structure, a legacy project construction management application server function with associated computer readable storage medium and an administrator computer work station;   populating the database server function content with detailed design and construction data during the construction project by executing the enterprise resource planning systems and web services applications; and   executing a computer executable browser based user interface application residing on a customer client network web server communicably coupled to a customer computer work station where said customer client network web server is communicably coupled via a local area network and coupled to a mobile computing device;   where said customer client network web server is communicably coupled via a wide area network to said content network server;   executing a computer executable mobile browser based user interface application residing on said mobile device;   executing the enterprise resource planning systems and web services applications using said customer computer work station to thereby maintain and update content;   and   where executing the computer executable browser based user interface application residing on a customer client network web server and executing the computer executable mobile browser based user interface application allows a user to display, view and manipulate facility content data.