4 research outputs found
Information resilience in a digital built environment.
Information is the underpinning driver in the Digitised Built Environment and crucial to the Centre for Digital Built Britain’s agenda. Threats to information affect the intrinsic, relational and security dimensions of information quality. Therefore, the DBE requires capabilities of
people, and requirements of the process, software and hardware for threat prevention and
reduction. Existing research and protocols seldomly outline the capabilities and requirements needed to reduce threats to information. The aim of this report is to develop an information resilience framework which outlines the capabilities and requirements needed to ensure the
resilience of information throughout its lifecycle; creation, use, storage, reuse, preserve and
destroy. The findings highlight the need for people’s (stakeholder) competencies and behaviours which are driven by cognitive abilities such as attention, learning, reasoning and perception. Furthermore, process’ requirements such as embedding validation check process,
standard requirements for Level of Detail, digital upskilling, among others, were identified. Additionally, identified software requirements include its ability to be customised to meet the project needs, detect conflicts and provide context of information. Finally, hardware requirements encompass facilitating backup, having a high capacity system and being
inaccessible to peripherals. This research will be further extended to the development of a decision-making assessment tool to measure capabilities and requirements in the entire lifecycle of built assets
Capabilities needed in Information management for a digital built Britain
Network FOuNTAIN is the Network For ONTologies And Information
maNagement in Digital Built Britain, a project funded by the Centre for Digital
Built Britain. The vision of the Network
is for all stakeholders in Digital Built Britain (DBB) to be able to meet their
information needs. With the establishment of concepts such as Building
Information Modelling and Common Data Environments, built environment design,
construction and operation are becoming increasingly information-intensive. The
Network undertook five workshop activities between July and December 2018. This paper summarises the proceedings of
these workshops, and in particular establishes future capabilities needed to
realise the vision of DBB. The first
workshop sought to establish the scope of “Information Management”. It was concluded that the capability to gauge
Information Management Maturity was needed.
The second and third workshops focused on ontologies and reviewed the
variety of standards currently available.
It was concluded that the capability was needed to establish the
appropriate scope of standardisation, and to design or extend existing
ontologies in general. The capability
was also needed to develop current classification systems, schema and
frameworks, Uniclass 2015 in particular, to maximise the potential to share
data. The fourth workshop explored
system requirements; it identified three modes of consuming information and the
corresponding software requirements for each mode. The three modes identified are: Search & Retrieval, Browsing & Expiration and Information Delivery. The fifth and final workshop focused on
business models and concluded that the capability was needed to identify and
derive business value from Information Management. The paper closes with a research agenda
required to deliver those capabilities.
Fundamental research is needed to formulate a process of establishing
the appropriate scope of standardisation for Information Management at project, organisation and industry
levels. This research needs to unfold in
the context of emerging related international standards. <br
Systemic BIM adoption: a multilevel perspective
Systemic innovations require multiple interdependent actors to change their practices simultaneously in order to realise the benefits of the innovation. Building Information Modelling (BIM) has been classified as a systemic innovation that is adopted by building projects, firms, and users. However, the slow diffusion of BIM in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) sector has maintained the gap between BIM visions and actual BIM practice. Some governments are planning to enact policies to promote BIM adoption in construction. However, in some countries, BIM adoption has already started with large construction organisations (i.e., the middle-out diffusion approach). To learn from previous experience and before enacting top-down interventions, policymakers require a model to stimulate systemic BIM adoption for entire supply chains with fragmented project and organisational structures. The current paper investigates systemic adoption of digital innovations in construction and is aimed at formulating a model of systemic BIM adoption (MSBA). Three primary datasets consisting of 133 BIM users, 30 chief executive officers, and 20 project managers were collected in Peru and collectively analysed using cross-classified multilevel modelling (CCMM). It was found that MSBA has five user-, three firm-, and two project-level factors, explaining 28%, 75% and 50% of variance in users’ BIM adoption respectively. The proposed model would provide useful guidance for corporate decisionmakers and government policymakers to develop BIM-diffusion policies to accelerate adoption. It would also provide a useful practical implementation framework as the industry progresses towards a digital mode of working and could underpin further digitalisation of the sector worldwide
Cultural-cognitive elements and BIM adoption
This is questionnaire data for the analysis of the construction industry's cultural-cognitive elements associated with BIM adoption. The dataset includes the name for each variable, the wording as in the questionnaire, and the measurement scale