PLAN MAKING AND DECISION-MAKING PROCESS IN UNIVERSITY FACILITIES USAGE PLANNING : APPLICATION OF FM DATABASE AND SIMULATIONS : Through the case of faculty of engineering Chiba university

Abstract

In university campus, there are a huge number of facilities, various facilities, and various user groups etc. Thus, it's very difficult to make a reasonable usage plan of facilities in a short period of time. This paper reports a process from plan making to decision-making, which utilize FM database and computational simulation as a Decision Support system ; such process was actually realized in facilities re-allocation planning at the faculty of engineering Chiba University. Through the case of Chiba University, the advantages of such process : transparency of information, fairness of procedure, and timesaving efficiency in plan making and decision-making are confirmed.