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Garcia Alberti, MarcosAuthorArcos Alvarez, Antonio AlfonsoAuthorMunoz Pavon, RubenAuthor

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January 18, 2021
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Possibilities of BIM-FM for the Management of COVID in Public Buildings

Publicated to: Sustainability. 12 (23): 1-21 - 2020-12-01 12(23), DOI: 10.3390/su12239974

Authors:

Pavon, Ruben Munoz; Arcos Alvarez, Antonio A; Alberti, Marcos G
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Affiliations

Univ Politecn Madrid, ETS Ingenieros Caminos Canales & Puertos, Dept Ingn & Morfol Terreno, Madrid 28040, Spain - Author
Univ Politecn Madrid, ETS Ingenieros Caminos Canales & Puertos, Dept Ingn Civil Construcc, Madrid 28040, Spain - Author

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic, with more than 49.7 million reported cases and over 1.2 million deaths globally confirmed deaths at the time of writing, demands global action to counteract this virus. It is widely accepted that COVID-19 is a long-term pandemic that will require a constant and innovative range of mitigation approaches to protect public health. This paper provides infrastructure facility management (FM) systems based on Building Information Modeling (BIM) to reduce the likelihood of COVID-19 infections indoors. Although there are several factors for dealing with COVID-19, the sole focus of this project is to reduce crowding and facilitate social distancing between occupants. The significance of this research relies on the use of mathematical methods, BIM, programming as well as FM tools and databases to achieve safer management of large and populated public buildings during the COVID-19 pandemic. The infrastructure management example refers to the Civil Engineering School at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. It is based on mathematical applications to find the paths of people paths inside the infrastructure and is synchronized with in-house developed software and the Internet domain as source and input data.
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Keywords

BimBuildingCovid-19 managementData assimilationEpidemicInfrastructure managementInfrastructure planningInternetMadrid [spain]Public spaceResearch workSmart buildingSoftwareSpainViral disease

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Sustainability due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2020, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Energy Engineering and Power Technology. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 1.13. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 13, 2025)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Weighted Average of Normalized Impact by the Scopus agency: 1.35 (source consulted: FECYT Mar 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-12-20, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 30
  • Scopus: 34
  • Google Scholar: 49
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-12-20:

  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 130 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

    It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

    • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
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    Leadership analysis of institutional authors

    There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (MUÑOZ PAVON, RUBEN) and Last Author (Alberti, Marcos G).

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    Awards linked to the item

    The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness of Spain by means of the Research Fund Project PID2019-108978RB-C31. They also offer their gratitude to Calle 30 for supporting the Enterprise University Chair Calle30-UPM and to the Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos for awarding the Final Masters Thesis as the most innovative project in the national contest of 2019. The authors also acknowledge the support provided by the UPM through the Educational Innovation Project IE1920.0409 as well as the support of the Leadership Team of the ETSICCP.
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