A municipal asset maintenance program of $3 million or more per year runs on data. The problem is that this data often lives in one person’s head, or in a spreadsheet that does not survive staff changes.
Municipal asset management can move from scattered files to structured records, and that starts with the BIM mandate itself. For each building, plans, manuals and photos are gathered in one place and kept up to date. Whoever opens the building’s record sees the latest version, without digging through folders.
You manage anywhere from 5 to 20+ buildings, with an operating and maintenance budget to justify every year. A recent BIM tender or a program like DASH may already have required modelling. But if that model stays a project-closeout deliverable instead of an operations tool, it loses its value in year one.
The real cost isn’t the project itself. It’s what gets lost when a director of infrastructure changes roles and no one else knows the real condition of the building portfolio.
DBA Experts-Conseils has worked with Quebec municipalities since 1994, delivering more than 970 civil and structural engineering projects. DBABIM takes that existing relationship and structures it: BIM modelling, drone surveys and asset data that stay with the municipality, not with a consultant who moves on.
“The information that doesn’t disappear when your team changes” isn’t a tagline. It’s what structured data from the design phase actually produces.
Every infrastructure project becomes a chance to structure data, not just deliver it.
Drone and LiDAR confirm real asset condition, not just original drawings.
BIM data feeds DBAssets, a documented maintenance log and reserve fund, accessible to whoever holds the role tomorrow.
A director of infrastructure who can demonstrate portfolio conditions with real data defends the budget differently in front of the council. A staff change becomes a transition, not a loss of institutional memory.
Let's talk about your next BIM mandate or asset-maintenance program.
It depends on the project stage and the mandate itself. Most often we come in at the BIM tender stage, but an audit of an existing model is possible to assess what can be structured for operations.
It depends on the project stage and the mandate itself. Most often we come in at the BIM tender stage, but an audit of an existing model is possible to assess what can be structured for operations.
Cost varies with portfolio size and the scope of the associated engineering and BIM mandate. We put together a tailored proposal after an initial conversation about your needs.
It complements it. Drone and LiDAR let you quickly validate actual building and infrastructure conditions across large areas, supporting more detailed surveys where needed.
Typically the director of infrastructure or operations. A technical contact, an in-house engineer or public works lead, also helps scope the mandate.
