More than 800 records of incorrect data on an asbestos register. A risk scoring system that showed several properties as no-risk where there was no data and there could in fact be asbestos present. These are the information management issues uncovered by former social housing landlord, One Housing, following an investigation by the Housing Ombudsman.

Nearly a month ago, BIMplus highlighted how the Crossrail project team learned the hard way the trouble associated with not setting information management requirements at the start of a project. Malcolm Taylor was head of technical information for nearly a decade until 2019 and here he reveals the full scale of the challenge that Crossrail faced.

The Defence Infrastructure Organisation has launched the next phase of its asset information management common data environment, using Glider’s intelligent data management platform.