Every asset maintenance, structural rehabilitation or new construction project produces a wealth of valuable data. The challenge is not producing it, but keeping it usable once the project team has moved on. In a school board, things usually get stuck between handover and day-to-day operations, which is why DBABIM structures the information along the way, from the first diagnostic to the final model.
The goal is simple: when someone needs to know what a room or a piece of equipment contains, they open a single record for the building and find the related documents and photos in it.
A school board manages dozens of buildings, often with staff turnover that outpaces the project lifecycle. When an in-house engineer leaves, the building’s history often leaves with them: paper drawings, scattered emails, undocumented knowledge. A BIM requirement on one project changes nothing if the design data is never structured for operations.
Yet you’re accountable: asset-maintenance budgets to justify, intervention priorities to document, compliance to demonstrate. Without reliable, centralized data, every new budget request starts from zero.
We’ve been delivering occupied buildings in school environments for over thirty years. DBA Experts-Conseils has completed more than 970 projects since 1994, a significant share in civil and structural engineering for Quebec’s school network. DBABIM, our ISO-certified digital division, turns that expertise into BIM models, drone surveys and usable asset data, with the same teams who already know your buildings.
We aren’t discovering your building portfolio. We already know it.
An asset-maintenance, rehabilitation or new-construction project becomes the moment to structure the data, not just deliver a drawing.
Our BIM modelling service (Revit, Navisworks, ACC) produces a model built for operations, not just design.
The data feeds a maintenance log and defensible CAPEX planning that stay useful after handover, through DBAssets, no commitment, data exportable at any time.
A director of physical resources who documents intervention priorities with real data negotiates budgets differently. They don’t start over with every staff change. They have a record.
Without that structure, every new mandate starts from a blank page, every staff transition costs institutional knowledge, and every budget decision gets defended with estimates instead of data.
Let's talk about your next asset-maintenance or new-construction project.
No. DBABIM is DBA Experts-Conseils’ digital division. We can work within an existing civil and structural engineering mandate, or start a new one directly with our team.
It depends on project size and complexity. For active DBA EC network clients, the typical decision cycle is 30 to 60 days from first contact to signed mandate.
It depends on how locked in that system is. If no CMMS is deployed board-wide, DBAssets integrates well. If one is already in place, we focus the offer on the engineering and BIM side.
Yes. Data is exportable at any time, and the DBAssets trial comes with no long-term commitment.
