GIS APPLICATION FOR BUILDING INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

The project title is "GIS Application for Building Information Management". The
purpose of the project is to develop a GIS database in order to assist in building
maintenance works. Maintenance is a very important activity especially for welldeveloped
countries. For instant, Malaysia has a numerous number of high-tech
engineering structures which require regular maintenance. They are Kuala Lumpur City
Centre (KLCC), Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), Putrajaya Government
buildings and Midvalley Megamall shopping complex; to name a few. Budget for
maintenance works may be limited for each building. Thus, proper maintenance
management should be done to minimize cost or to perform the maintenance within the
given budget. The scope of the project will focus on several critical aspects in building
maintenance, by preparing a database that is user-friendly and easily accessible by users.
Users in this case refer to maintenance engineers and managers. In order to complete the
project, research for raw data and drawing plans regarding building maintenance must
be done. Then, this information will be inserted in a newly developed database using a
GIS application. Learning GIS-based software is a very crucial task for this project. The
GIS application chosen for this project is Maplnfo Professional 7.0. Other than that,
Microsoft Visual Basic .NETis used to manipulate the GIS data. The final product from
the project is a system, which can assist the engineers and managers in building
maintenance management.