information assets management
When a building is handed-over, so too is information to support its safe and correct operation. Often, the adequacy of that information is called into question. Dr Brian Atkin discusses an approach that sees handover of the physical asset accompanied by an information asset for managing the building in operation and use.
information is, however, required for start- up of operation and use, but may not materialise in the way or to the extent expected by owners and facility managers.
Capitalising on information P
roviding as-built information of a building is standard practice and one that is increasingly enforced through legislation such as health and safety and energy performance. Other
In simple terms, information is needed
to deliver the building and information is needed to operate it. The cost of providing information with which to construct the building can run into double-digits: 12-15% of the capital cost is typically cited in research findings. Instead of thinking about information as a cost – perhaps something to be cut – it should be seen as having a real value for the present and any future owner by
enabling efficient, as well as safe, operation of the building. One of the weaknesses in current
Dr Brian Atkin.
practice is that project teams, charged with delivery of the building, may have little interest in the operation and use phase. A consequence is that information needed for operational purposes can attract a low priority. During the close-out stage of construction, and in an effort to meet the contract completion date, some
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