iOFFICE + SpaceIQ, a leader in the digital transformation of workplace and asset management, today announced a strategic investment by Autodesk, a global technology leader spanning architecture, engineering, construction, product design, manufacturing, and media and entertainment. The investment, which follows the recent combination of iOFFICE + SpaceIQ, will provide integrated solutions that give businesses unequaled ability to analyze and optimize all aspects of their real estate and mission-critical assets. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.
iOFFICE + SpaceIQ
The pandemic has heightened focus on maximizing value and increasing efficiency of facilities, with executives reporting cost reduction as their top real estate priority in a recent survey by analyst firm Verdantix. However, occupancy and operations workflows are often fragmented, making it difficult to leverage data from siloed systems. Autodesk’s Building Information Modeling (BIM) expertise will help address these challenges by enabling comprehensive visibility needed to strategically plan and manage physical resources during operations.
“Combining design, operational and performance data and workflows in a single platform to improve the comfort, safety and efficiency of building assets has never been more important,” said Nick Stefanidakis, General Manager, Archibus, an iOFFICE + SpaceIQ product. “The strategic investment from Autodesk allows us to deliver the solutions organizations need to meet this demand.”
Archibus Application
iOFFICE + SpaceIQ represent the industry’s most comprehensive solutions portfolio for integrated workplace and enterprise asset management platforms. More than 10,000 customers worldwide leverage these tools to manage more than 2 billion square feet of space valued at more than $64B. The company’s platforms, including widely deployed IWMS Archibus, help 170,000-plus maintenance technicians respond to 1.3M work orders a month. The Archibus platform was one of Autodesk’s first developer partners, and this investment expands the combined capabilities to increase collaboration and scalability.
“Users of both Archibus and Autodesk products will see value in a tighter integration of BIM-based design and construction data with operations insights and workflows to optimize facility performance, comfort and sustainability,” Stefanidakis said. “Owners and occupiers can leverage these operational data to make better, more informed, design and construction choices.”
Autodesk has been a globally recognized leader in BIM design, engineering, and construction solutions for nearly thirty years and recently brought BIM to the world of digital twins, including the launch of Autodesk Tandem™ and the acquisition of Innovyze®. Autodesk views this investment as another strategic step in the company’s efforts to bring BIM, and digital twin technologies, to the full project lifecycle from design through operations and maintenance.
“BIM is at the core of Autodesk’s AEC business and serves as the foundation of the digital transformation now underway in the building industry from design through operations,” added Nicolas Mangon, Vice President, Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industry Strategy at Autodesk. “Owners and operators play an increasingly significant role in combatting climate change through improved building efficiency and creating flexible and resilient workplaces when working conditions suddenly change. Our investment in iOFFICE + SpaceIQ recognizes the importance of giving them the tools they need to meet these challenges.”
Autodesk and iOFFICE + SpaceIQ currently offer integrations between Autodesk Revit® and AutoCAD® and Archibus with plans for future integrations with the Autodesk Construction Cloud® and Autodesk’s Forge® platform. Customers, including global housing and construction provider Daiwa House, have already leveraged the existing integration to benefit their businesses.
“Daiwa House has developed a strategy for creating and managing building data so that building owners can make more data-driven decisions while reducing the guesswork of operations and maintenance,” said Takaaki Miyauchi, Senior Manager, Construction Digital Promotion Department at Daiwa House. “Archibus and Autodesk’s BIM-related products have been at the center of our strategy to bring the project model and asset operations together. The investment Autodesk is making in iOFFICE + SpaceIQ will fully bring BIM to building operations, which is so important to the digital transformation of building operations and the future of the built world.”
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Answers to Common Workplace & Facility Management Questions
What is a Workplace & Facility Management System?
Facilities management systems help organizations manage their repair and maintenance programs from start to finish via processes and software.
What is Workplace & Facility Management Software?
Workplace & Facility Management Software is a tool that helps organizations manage their buildings, spaces, and occupants more efficiently and effectively via a personalized online dashboard.
What is the Role of Workplace & Facility Management?
Workplace & Facility Management (FM) ensures the functionality, safety, and efficiency of the built environment within an organization.
BUILDING OPERATIONS
Optimize operations with pro-active tools for automating preventive maintenance. Track and evaluate everything to improve continuously and enhance outcomes across the board.
Implementing facility management software will help your company to:
Generate Detailed Work Orders
Enable occupants, craftspersons, and managers to generate work orders from anywhere.
Automate Preventive Maintenance
Prevent costly breaks before they happen with a preventive maintenance strategy. Generate work orders automatically based on the specific maintenance of needs of different assets with an automated Preventive Maintenance Planner.
Prioritize And Centralize Work Orders
View, approve, and manage all work orders from a single console. Drill into each order and advance to view details and advance its status through to completion. Automate alerts for critical orders and bottlenecks that need attention.
Respond Quickly And Effectively
Enable craftspersons to receive requests directly on their mobile phones with relevant details, then update orders with additional details after completion. Track the status of each order to ensure that the job is done, and reschedule missed orders.
Evaluate And Optimize
Evaluate effectiveness with metrics that enable you to track the cost, labor, and performance of operations. Track trends, identify outliers, and gain visibility into how effectively your strategy is meeting needs on the ground.
Anticipate Budgetary Needs
Calculate the cost of your preventive maintenance plan for the year ahead to ensure that your budget reflects your priorities.
SPACE PLANNING MANAGEMENT
Optimize space across your entire portfolio to maximize usage and enable your workforce. Streamline moves and ensure everyone is where they need to be.
Plan With Insight
Define and allocate space with an intuitive color-coded display. Group teams together or reclassify offices as meeting rooms to keep up with needs on the ground.
Streamline Individual And Group Moves
Manage all move requests in a single console. Prioritize, approve, and execute requests with the benefit of relevant details and visual planning tools. Plan larger move projects and test scenarios at the scale of campuses and cities.
Increase Capacity With Dynamic Team Space
Replace one-to-one seating ratios with denser neighborhoods of shared team space. Account for remote and part-time staff by allocating seats based on average attendance, and foster an agile work environment.
Get Ahead Of Needs And Risks
Stay ahead of needs by tracking occupancy trends, and identifying critical bottlenecks with alerts. Identify under-performing outliers.
Benchmark Spaces To Optimize Performance
View how space is allocated across divisions, departments, buildings and campuses. Compare spaces to identify vacancies, and spot where space is needed most.
Enhance Accountability With Chargebacks
Chargeback internal departments for the space they use to incentivize consolidation. Maximize real estate and shrink your footprint to reflect your needs.
Maintaining safe, functional, and compliant facilities and infrastructure while minimizing operating costs and maximizing reimbursement, can be a difficult balancing act. Such challenges make it crucial to effectively track, analyze, and report facilities-related information that supports strategic decision-making. Every day, educational institutions efficiently perform their core missions by using the sector’s leading integrated real estate, facilities, and infrastructure management solution–Archibus.
Robotech IWMS Solution has been providing Archibus implementation for Higher-Ed institutions over 30 years. Robotech’s team of subject-matter professionals provides consulting and technical services including systems deployment, hosting, integration, configuration, training and technical support that result in a successful workplace management operation.
What are the Benefits of Using Archibus?
Maximize funding and Indirect Cost Recovery (ICR) through accurate, defensible space utilization data
Create a central information repository to better analyze space allocation scenarios and improve strategic planning
Minimize unnecessary expenditures by optimizing the acquisition, use, and maintenance of physical assets and infrastructure
Streamline the work order process to improve productivity and customer satisfaction
Incorporate a geospatial perspective for enhanced analysis and decision-making
Campus Asset Explorer helps visualize how your space is being utilized.
Activities & Reports
Space Management
Rooms by Building
Synchronize Room Percentages
Highlight Rooms by Department
Financial Statement for Chargeback
Actual Cost vs. Budgets by Department
Historical Space Usage by Department
Asset Management
Equipment Standards and Inventory
Asset Depreciation Schedules
Equipment Disposition History
Operations & Maintenance
Work Orders Scheduled vs. Completed
Rooms with Active Work Orders
Service-Level Agreements
Parts Usage History
Planning Board for Labor Resources
Capital Budgeting
Approved Projects by Funding Year
Available Capital and Expense Funds
Budget by Program
Geospatial Views
Facilities and Site Infrastructure Master Planning
Utilities, Cable Plant, & Network Management
Environmental Health and Safety Compliance
Emergency Preparedness and Response
Plus more than 10,000 other activities and reports right out-of-of-the-box.
“Archibus helped us increase our data accuracy and reporting as well as our efficiency by cutting down all of the unnecessary steps in updating our inventory and floor plans.” Karen Abel-Co, University of British Colombia
Maximize Indirect Cost Reimbursements
Accurately track space usage and occupancy to ensure maximum reimbursement for grants and other sponsored activities
Provide solid, defensible data and reports by grant, department, occupancy, and room use for audits
Empower staff and faculty to access reports and enter information regarding space usage, duration, and grants while enforcing organizational standards
Centralize Space Information
Easily track and report on space and physical assets according to FICM standards
Graphically identify types and duration of space usage and vacancies to enhance strategic planning
Create meaningful data roll-ups using multi-tier hierarchies that reflect your organizational structure
Streamline periodic space surveys using web-enabled workflow tools that inventory and organize information
Optimize Assets and Infrastructure
Analyze the value and performance of your assets to better prioritize capital spending
Increase cost awareness by tracking lifecycle expenditures on property and equipment
Improve overall space utilization via powerful reporting and chargeback functionality
Track asset condition to identify critical deficiencies and integrate with capital budgeting and project management activities
Streamline Operations and Maintenance
Standardize and automate the work request and work order process through easy-to-use web forms
Ensure the safety and regulatory compliance of buildings, systems, and equipment using tools for periodic condition assessment
Analyze the frequency of corrective maintenance to proactively identify potential problems
Improve equipment uptime by managing and documenting maintenance practices
Reduce unnecessary labor usage and costs by project, building, department, or equipment
Manage capital budgets and projects effectively using weighted performance scorecards
Bring Geographic Intelligence to Your Campus
Gain a powerful, multi-layered perspective of campus-scale space planning through Archibus Geospatial Extensions for ESRI
Flow architectural CAD and Building Information Modeling (BIM) directly into GIS
Maintain an integrated data repository for critical information on assets and processes—both inside and outside of your buildings
Merge GIS and enterprise workflows to speed mission-essential processes and deliver results
Deploy Quickly to Make the Grade
Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) delivery enables deployment as fast as 30 days with payback within six months
Open system architecture enables easy data exchange with other ERP systems and data sources
Scalable, modular software lets users assemble a solution that best fits their requirements and budget
“We know what is going on real-time. Previously, before we did this, we had huge knowledge gaps. We had to pick up the phone 3–4 times a day with hundreds of members of staff just to work out what was going on. Now, we’ve got a real update from an engineer on the ground within minutes. Archibus is part of the daily life of people in our department.” Richard Kimber, University of the West of England
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Please join us for a LIVE Webinar “What’s New & What’s Next in V.26.2 and Beyond” which will be released on:
29 July 2021 11:00 AM ET
In this release we have focused on further developing features from previous releases, improving quality and usability, and supporting organizations as they return to work.
Join us to get a quick update on these improvements, as well as get a sneak peek at some of our proofs of concept, such as:
Autodesk Forge Integration to help visualize asset data, system connections, and build digital twin integrations
Clockworks Analytics Integration which brings in fault detection and diagnostics to assist in condition-based maintenance
IoT integration to visualize space utilization data
Can’t make it? Don’t worry, we will send out the recording to everyone who registers.
Upon registration you will receive an email with the Webinar’s URL. It makes sense to register even if you can’t make it on Thursday to receive a link to the recorded webinar if you registered and couldn’t attend.
