USA the Precision Cancer Medicine Building is notable not just because of its poignant mission and ethos . It ’ s also being brought to life through an innovative approach to construction and facilities management .
Emphasising facilities management With a background in construction , architecture , planning and design , Mace has been Director of Facilities Management at UCSF for the past eight years .
He says that although facilities management can sometimes be viewed as an afterthought in the construction sector , facilities management has been involved front and centre in the Precision Cancer Medicine Building ’ s vision .
“ Facilities management is about the environment of care ,” explains Mace . “ It ’ s all the infrastructure systems that directly support patient care throughout our hospital system .
“ Today , we have roughly 120 buildings and four hospitals . In the case of Mission Bay Hospital and the Precision Cancer Medicine Building , we are a tertiary and quaternary acute care treatment enterprise . We get some of the most difficult , most acute cases here so it ’ s hypercritical that we deliver a stable , safe environment for the care of that segment of our patient population .”
During the construction phase , Mace has tried to make facilities management a key consideration by harnessing the latest cutting-edge technologies .
Championing collaboration between people , systems , and business structures , UCSF Health has taken an integrated project delivery ( IPD ) approach to the building delivery which has been consolidated by its use of a Building Information Modeling for Facilities Management ( BIM4FM ) system .
Integrating technologies IBM Maximo and Autodesk Revit ( BIM360 ), Mace and his team have created what he describes as a “ living as-operated model of the building that we can utilise on a daily basis ”.
Leveraging this state-of-the-art computerised maintenance management system ( CMMS ), UCSF
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