The team behind the development of the WASTEie – an information exchange for construction waste – reveal how they used a data dictionary to help build their schema.

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.

What are data dictionaries? How do they work and how are they used in construction? And what’s their future? Antony Brophy, UK director of business development at Cobuilder, provides some answers.