The University Call envisaged, as entities eligible for funding, public-private partnerships made up of a Department of the University of Florence and at least one private partner with headquarters located outside the Tuscany Region.
The working group was thus made up of researchers and experts from the various partners, according to the composition required by the call. In particular, in addition to the research group of the Department of Architecture (DIDA), proposing the BIM2DT project, as a private partner, the company Descor srl based in Rome has been identified, which has long been dealing with the issues of digitalization of real estate assets, carrying out research, development and provision of services relating to Facility Management in a BIM-CAFM-CMMS environment. In particular, Descor srl has implemented the Infocad.FM platform for the integrated management of real estate and plant assets, which is currently one of the most widespread IT tools to support Facility & Energy Management processes, also counting the University among its customers from Florence.
The DIDA, on its behalf, with the DIDAlab structure, and in particular with the Architecture Information Laboratory - Building Information Modeling (LIA-BIM), has expertise in the field of digitalization and information management of building assets, through interoperable tools relating to the mentioned technologies, organizing among other things a II level Master in "BIM for the management of collaborative project processes in new and existing buildings", where the issues of data management during the life cycle of buildings are specifically addressed in a viewpoint oriented towards Facility Management. The DIDA working group is also supported by the staff of the Building Area - Real Estate Management and Adaptation Area - of the University of Florence, with which for some years it has started a teaching and research collaboration for the development on pilot cases of a BIM-based information management aimed at Facility Management, which has already resulted in the creation of various asset models (AIM - Asset Information Model) aimed at the operational phases of real estate assets (Operational and Maintenance).