Project 2.51: Developing a Cross-Sector Digital Asset Information Model Framework for Asset Management: Final research report

Asset management is the systematic process of deploying, operating, maintaining, upgrading and disposing of built environment assets. Effective asset management requires the involvement of all levels of an organisation in planning, control and monitoring of asset performance that combines management, financial, economic and other activities and practices. Over the past decade, Building Information Modelling (BIM), as an intelligent 3D model-based process to inform and communicate project decisions, has received much attention in the design and construction stages of buildings and transport infrastructure. However, the use of BIM for asset management has only recently been recognised in terms of its benefits to managing assets when using 3D models. This SBEnrc Project 2.51 initially focussed on a comprehensive review of current digital asset management practices in order to promote BIM and other digital engineering technologies for more effective use in informed asset management decisions. This was done for the four core areas of asset data exchange, asset classification, asset location referencing and asset information requirements. This report is one of a suite of three reports generated within Project 2.51 “Developing a Cross-Sector Digital Asset Information Model Framework for Asset Management”. It presents information likely to be of more interest to academics and researchers so that they can more fully understand how the material in the other reports was developed.