BuildEXT joins the LEO FM professional community

It was an important milestone for us to join the National Association of Facilities Management and Building Management Service Providers (LEO FM) as a patron member. This organisation, which has been operating for more than a decade and a half, is a key player in the Hungarian facility management sector, actively promoting knowledge sharing, industry innovation and professional dialogue.

For many years we have been committed to working with the entire life cycle of the buildings we design in mind, with a particular focus on energy solutions, sustainability, ESG aspects and operation.

Our membership gives us the opportunity to engage directly with the professionals who run our facilities every day. Our aim is to incorporate the experience and data collected and processed by LEO, as well as the results of the professional groups and yearbooks, into our work, so that we can create more efficient and sustainable facilities.

Not only do we want to feed knowledge from LEO back into our design processes, but we also want to actively contribute to the professional community. In fact, this is not an intention, we have started the work: in developing the BIM Operating Model Recommendation, we are trying to contribute our own experience and BIM knowledge to make the resulting recommendation applicable and practical for designers.

Within LEO there are a number of benchmarking research, ESG and HR and other working groups, but there is also a growing focus on Proptech and BIM technologies, in particular the use of BIM models in operations.

Our company is represented in this working group by Dániel Joó, who is actively working in several areas to promote the use of BIM models in the construction industry.

We believe that data-driven architectural design and BIM-based operations will be truly effective if we think in terms of collaboration across the lifecycle. LEO FM membership is another important step in this commitment.

Why is BIM-based facilities management important?

Investment in a BIM-based FM system can pay for itself within 1-2 years through the cost reductions described above. In addition to the payback, the operation becomes more sustainable and transparent, reducing long-term risks (e.g. unexpected maintenance, exposure to energy price fluctuations).

This becomes into a significant competitive advantage in the market: more efficient, cheaper operations mean lower costs and higher satisfaction.

If we want to be honest and start from factual data, the good question is not whether it is worth it and when it will pay for itself, but how much does it actually cost to do a non-BIM-based facilities management?

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