Optimizing technical asset management through the use of digital mock-ups

As part of their Research & Development (R&D) partnership dedicated to housing, CDC Habitat and the Center Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment (CSTB) have developed a tool to facilitate the production of digital management models, compatible with the Management tool. Real estate asset technique (GTP ABYLA®) used by CDC Habitat.

This tool takes the form of a plugin called “Abyla Adapter”, integrated into CSTB's eveBIM® model viewer. It allows landlords and property managers to more easily integrate digital models into their ABYLA® GTP tool and thus optimize the management of their fleets, via BIM Management - Operation - Maintenance (GEM).

The global BIM approach, a major focus of the CDC Habitat - CSTB Research and Development partnership

In 2018, CDC Habitat and CSTB launched an ambitious R&D partnership, focused on the housing sector, including BIM GEM. Since most of the costs of a building after delivery are concentrated in operation and maintenance, the BIM approach benefits from being thought out globally to optimize both the design and renovation of buildings and their management. The integration of digital models into the Technical Asset Management (GTP) tools constitutes in this an important technical and economic optimization lever.

Based on this observation, CDC Habitat is organizing its technical asset management strategy for the 525 housing units managed in its stock.

A plugin for facilitated BIM GEM, developed within the framework of the CSTB / CDC Habitat partnership

Committed to supporting actors in the digital transition, CSTB, through its multidisciplinary expertise, the research it develops in particular in the field of BIM GEM and its ability to deploy innovative tools such as the eveBIM® viewer, has developed this experimental plugin as part of the partnership with CDC Habitat. This ensures the transmission of data from the model to the GTP ABYLA® tool which is, on the one hand, deployed at CDC Habitat, CDC Habitat Social and Sainte-Barbe and, on the other hand, operated through the social housing sector.

The principle: to be able to convert a DOE (Executed Works File) model, produced in compliance with the new, more complete standardized CDC Habitat BIM DOE Charter, into a model fully compatible with the ABYLA® data model. CDC Habitat can thus pursue its asset management strategy via BIM, using its GTP tool.

The challenge was therefore to facilitate the integration of digital models into the GTP tool used by CDC Habitat and thus, eventually replace vectorization from plans with generalized use of BIM.

A plugin available to landlords and property managers

The work carried out by CDC Habitat and CSTB is part of a common desire to deploy new construction, rehabilitation, management and maintenance methods, which will benefit the park managed by CDC Habitat, but also the housing sector in general.

In this perspective, CSTB and CDC Habitat have decided to make this plugin available to all landlords and managers of real estate assets to enable them to optimize the management of their real estate assets via a digital model.

CSTB and CDC Habitat invite social housing players to join the process initiated, to share their feedback, their expectations and proposals around a facilitated BIM GEM.

“The challenge of our partnership with CDC Habitat lies in the convergence between research and the reality of construction, to deploy efficient, innovative and reproducible approaches and tools in other contexts. This is what has been done, in particular, with this plugin. This is a key first step in the service of a global approach to a BIM GEM. We now wish to go further, by opening up the process to all housing stakeholders, to move forward together towards a facilitated and generalized BIM GEM ”indicates Etienne Crépon, President of CSTB.

“Given the high rate of development of the CDC Habitat group, it is essential for us to be able to use in our management and maintenance of our buildings the data from the BIM design, from the digital model of the DOE. The work carried out with CSTB and financed by CDC Habitat made it possible to develop this Abyla adapter, which ensures the transmission of data from the digital model into the technical asset management tool (ABYLA). We have decided, with CSTB, to make it available to donors and the housing sector. This is an important step in the digital transformation of our Group. »Emphasizes Anne-Sophie Grave, President of the Management Board of CDC Habitat.