BIM and asset management, data dictionaries, standards, error-reducing technologies, and parametric design: these are all areas that are complex until explained by an expert in terms we can understand.

Balfour Beatty Atkins pushed new boundaries in the handover of major highway projects to the maintenance contractor through its work on the A19 Norton to Wynyard improvement scheme in the North East. Its work secured the joint venture the Digital Innovation in Asset Management trophy at the Digital Construction Awards 2023. Denise Chevin spoke with AtkinsRealis practice manager Brian Russell to learn more.

Understanding the value of and knowing how to combine BIM and asset management are key to avoiding construction failures and delivering the successful operation of the built environment.

How does a university or hospital turn its disparate estate data into useful information that helps it make vital decisions? Provelio has harnessed Power BI to provide the answer as MD Jeremy Sneddon and Stan Hornagold explain to Denise Chevin.

Make the most of your asset information model! That’s Lucas Cusack’s message to asset owners and those who advise them.

Glider has appointed Lucas Cusack as strategic lead for asset management. This is a new role at Glider that will see him working with clients to provide consultancy in the use and maintenance of building information.

Magnox is seeking a new enterprise asset management system to replace its existing three systems.

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

Housing providers have a wealth of data at their disposal to help improve their asset management, John Fisher of ARK Consultancy explains to Denise Chevin.

In his second and final analysis, BIMcert director Neil Reed explains how ever-closer engagement between asset management (AM) and BIM can be achieved using information management to bring these two worlds together.

Asset management (AM) is about to provide fresh impetus and a whole-lifecycle’s worth of opportunity to the architecture, engineering and construction industries, according to BIMcert director Neil Reed.