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This NexusCon 2025 presentation features Rob Knight, Senior Smart Buildings Consultant at ARUP, and Robert Bray, Vice President & General Manager at Autodesk, tackling a problem most owners quietly accept as “just how it is”: losing critical building data at handover.
They walk through how rich BIM data created during design routinely gets discarded, forcing facilities teams to rebuild asset lists, sequences, and system context from scratch. The discussion spans commercial offices, campuses, airports, and data centers, with real examples of where the breakdown happens—and where it’s starting to get fixed.
Behind the paywall, you’ll hear why most BIM handovers fail in practice, even on well-run projects, and what owners can do differently without boiling the ocean. The speakers dig into contract structure, BIM execution planning, incremental data validation, and why “single source of truth” doesn’t mean one giant model.
You’ll also learn how some owners are already initializing CMMS, BMS, and analytics directly from design and commissioning data—and what surprised them about the effort required. This recording is essential for any FM, OT leader, or owner rep tired of re-entering the same data three times and still not trusting it.
Watch the full recording inside Nexus Pro →
This NexusCon 2025 presentation features Rob Knight, Senior Smart Buildings Consultant at ARUP, and Robert Bray, Vice President & General Manager at Autodesk, tackling a problem most owners quietly accept as “just how it is”: losing critical building data at handover.
They walk through how rich BIM data created during design routinely gets discarded, forcing facilities teams to rebuild asset lists, sequences, and system context from scratch. The discussion spans commercial offices, campuses, airports, and data centers, with real examples of where the breakdown happens—and where it’s starting to get fixed.
Behind the paywall, you’ll hear why most BIM handovers fail in practice, even on well-run projects, and what owners can do differently without boiling the ocean. The speakers dig into contract structure, BIM execution planning, incremental data validation, and why “single source of truth” doesn’t mean one giant model.
You’ll also learn how some owners are already initializing CMMS, BMS, and analytics directly from design and commissioning data—and what surprised them about the effort required. This recording is essential for any FM, OT leader, or owner rep tired of re-entering the same data three times and still not trusting it.
Watch the full recording inside Nexus Pro →
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This is a great piece!
I agree.