Francisco Forns-Samso, graduate student in the Construction Program at the University of New Mexico(UNM), in collaboration with BIMWorkx, are conducting a research study in the area of Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Facilities Management (FM). The intent of this study is to determine the perceived value and future benefits of using BIM as portal to visualize and access important Operation and Maintenance (O&M) information. The survey consists of a two (2) part questionnaire :  initial set questions on your facility characteristics and how you currently perform O&M activities and a follow on set of questions after watching a short "View of the Future for FM" video. To complete survey including watching the video should take about 5 minutes.

The results of this research will be published and distributed upon request to those who are interested.

Please note that your name and that of your facility will not be identified with any of the results.

If you have any questions or comments please do not hesitate to contact :

Francisco Forns-Samso, Graduate Student.

University of New Mexico

Department of Civil Engineering

Construction Program

505-340-8471

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**** Please note that we have utilized an embedded video as part of the survey, attached through YouTube.  You may need to update your flash player.  A helpful link is : http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=56115 .  There are also some mobile devices that may have trouble playing flash.

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