Airport Pavement Management Systems: An Open BIM Approach

Building Information Modelling (BIM) offers the possibility to access and oversee information about the asset, throughout its lifecycle. One of the phases where BIM can provide key benefits is the Operation phase, e.g. facility management/maintenance, decommissioning and major re-programming, supported by the Information Management Process (IMP), which may include a Computer-Managed Maintenance System (CMMS). When discussing roads, highways or runways the maintenance phase is largely concentrated on the pavement, and a robust Pavement Management System (PMS) should be integral part of the IMP, focusing mainly on the evaluation of the pavement’s present condition and prediction of its future condition. In the airport domain, the importance of an Airport Pavement Management System (APMS), falls both in a cost effectiveness and aviation safety viewpoint, providing consistent, objective and systematic procedures for determining priorities, schedules and resources’ assignment. Introducing the case study of the Lamezia Terme International Airport, this paper presents possible improvements in the interoperability of maintenance data of the airport’s runway with reference to the IFC Reference Processes, being that Maintenance Management is one of the defined projects within the Facilities Management (FM) domain inside BuildingSMART International.