<\/span>ROI: Reducing Maintenance Cost With Accurate BIM<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nThe clearest independent evidence for the cost of poor as-built data comes from a 2004 U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) study, still widely cited in the AEC\/FM industry today. It estimated the capital facilities industry lost $15.8 billion annually<\/strong> to inadequate interoperability, incompatible or missing data between project phases, and found that building owners and operators absorbed $10.6 billion of that total<\/strong>, concentrated in the operations and maintenance phase. That study is two decades old, but the underlying dynamic hasn’t changed: the operations and maintenance phase is where poor documentation costs the most, because it’s the longest phase of a building’s life. An accurate, structured as-built model doesn’t eliminate that cost, but it addresses it directly, by giving FM teams a single, verified source of truth instead of forcing them to rediscover the building’s real condition on every work order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n