Equipment Inventories for Owners and Facility Managers (PDF)

How to use industry standards to create complete, consistent,
and accurate equipment inventories

The National Institute of Science and Technology estimates that
the loss of information between the construction of buildings and
their operation and maintenance costs facility owners $15.8 billion
every year. This phenomenal loss is caused by inconsistent
standards for capturing information about facilities and their
equipment.

In Equipment Inventories for Owners and Facility
Managers, Robert Keady draws on his twenty+ years of experience
in facility management and his intimate knowledge of CSI
classification systems and standards to tackle this problem
head-on. Using standards already in use in the AEC industry, he
provides the road map for capturing everything owners and facility
managers need to know to operate and maintain any facility.

This comprehensive, step-by-step guide:

* Explains the different types of equipment inventories and why
they are important

* Identifies and describes the types of information that should
be captured in an equipment inventory

* Describes and compares the different industry standards (CSI
OmniClass(TM) and UniFormat(TM); COBie; and SPie) that can be
used for equipment inventories

* Provides best practices for identifying and tagging
equipment

* Walks through the equipment inventory process with real-world
examples and best practices

* Provides the tools for conducting the equipment
inventory--tables of all the possible information and data that
need to be collected, and fifty maps of workflows that can be used
to capture that data immediately