How can intelligent engineering achieve efficient operation and maintenance throughout the entire building lifecycle through the Facility Management and Control System (FMCS)?
Publish Time: 2025-12-15
Driven by both the "dual-carbon" strategy and digital transformation, modern buildings have evolved from static spaces into dynamic, perceptible, and responsive "intelligent living entities." As a core component of intelligent engineering, the Facility Management and Control System (FMCS) is becoming a crucial link connecting the design, construction, operation, and maintenance phases. By integrating the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, artificial intelligence, and automated control technologies, the FMCS system not only improves building operational efficiency but also achieves a paradigm shift from "passive maintenance" to "proactive operation and maintenance," truly enabling efficient, green, and human-centered management throughout the entire building lifecycle.
1. Design and Construction Phase: Data-Driven Development, Laying the Foundation for Intelligent Operation and Maintenance
FMCS does not intervene only after building delivery. In intelligent engineering practice, the FMCS concept is deeply integrated into the planning and design phase. Through the BIM platform, engineers pre-model equipment parameters, location layouts, and control logic for subsystems such as HVAC, lighting, water supply and drainage, elevators, and security, and integrate these models with tools for energy consumption simulation and pedestrian flow analysis. This "digital twin-first" strategy ensures that the physical and digital systems are built synchronously, providing a complete and structured data foundation for later operation and maintenance, avoiding pain points such as "discrepancies between drawings and the actual site" and "system silos" in traditional projects.
2. Operation Phase: Real-time Monitoring and Intelligent Optimization
After the building is put into use, the FMCS system collects tens of thousands of operational data points in real time through a sensor network distributed throughout the building. The central platform cleans, integrates, and analyzes this data to achieve:
Dynamic Energy Optimization: Automatically adjusts air conditioning and lighting power based on indoor and outdoor environments and personnel density to reduce ineffective energy consumption;
Equipment Health Diagnosis: Identifies early failures of water pumps and fans through features such as vibration and current waveforms, with an early warning accuracy rate of over 90%;
Intelligent Space Scheduling: Combines access control and Wi-Fi probe data to optimize the utilization rate of meeting rooms and workstations, improving the return on space assets.
For example, a smart park reduced its annual comprehensive energy consumption by 18% and shortened equipment failure response time from 48 hours to within 2 hours through FMCS.
Traditional operation and maintenance relies on fixed-cycle maintenance, which easily leads to "over-maintenance" or "under-maintenance." FMCS, however, relies on machine learning models to build life prediction algorithms based on historical equipment operating data, enabling predictive maintenance. When the system detects abnormal wear trends in the bearings of a chiller unit, it automatically generates a work order and pushes it to the maintenance personnel's mobile device, while simultaneously suggesting the optimal replacement window. This not only extends equipment life but also avoids business losses caused by sudden downtime, reducing maintenance costs by an average of 25%–30%.
4. Retrofitting and Decommissioning Phase: Data-Driven Decision Upgrades
As buildings enter their mid-to-late stages, the decade-long operating data accumulated by FMCS becomes a golden basis for retrofitting decisions. The system can accurately identify high-energy-consuming areas, inefficient equipment, or functional bottlenecks, providing quantitative support for energy-saving retrofits, space reorganization, or intelligent upgrades. As buildings approach the end of their service life, the equipment ledgers, material lists, and energy consumption records in FMCS can be used to assess residual value, guide green demolition and resource recycling, achieving closed-loop management throughout the entire lifecycle.
5. Human-Centered Experience: From "Managing Equipment" to "Serving People"
The ultimate goal of efficient operation and maintenance is to improve the human experience. FMCS, through an integrated card system, mobile app, and indoor navigation, enables seamless access, personalized environmental adjustment, and visitor self-service. Employees no longer need to report repairs, adjust the temperature, or find meeting rooms—the system proactively senses and responds to needs, truly realizing "the building understands you."
The FMCS system is the "nerve center" of intelligent engineering empowering building operation and maintenance. It uses data to break down time barriers, algorithms to replace experience-based judgment, and automation to relieve manpower burdens. Throughout the building's entire lifecycle, FMCS is not only a technology platform but also a strategic asset for sustainable operation. In the future, with the in-depth application of AI big data models and edge computing, FMCS will move towards higher levels of autonomous decision-making and adaptive evolution, making every building an efficient, low-carbon, and warm smart space.
