Building Information Models (BIMs) as a Source of Data for Spatial Evidence in Facility Management

The subject of this article is the information model of a building, the data of which can be used in the phase of operation and use. The aim of the article is to define the requirements for building information models for the purpose of data collection for spatial evidence. The article describes the method of sorting data according to the IFC standard developer for the international non-profit organization buildingSMART, or a classification system, and it describes the method of sorting the relevant data. Spatial evidence describes using the data from building information models. The conclusions of the article provide the information on how the users can collect the data from the information model and create spatial evidence in this case. Spatial evidence was selected because it is the one of the essential documents used by facility managers.