Effective information management is essential in preventing and resolving construction disputes – but there are pitfalls to beware of.

nima’s autumn conference will focus on the next step for information management as the information management mandate evolves into the information management initiative.

Information management’s role in disputes is a key topic at this year’s Digital Construction Summit.

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.

Skanska is aiming to address this by replacing the traditional Excel spreadsheet with a new ISO 19650-compliant Information Management Workbook

Sarah Keyte, of HKA Global and IM4Legal, considers information management’s impact on dispute resolution, specifically the rise of the common data environment.

Public sector procurement authority Scape has launched an enhanced building information management offering across its national construction frameworks.

Good records, stemming from information management best practice, can act as both a shield and a sword in disputes, according to an in-house lawyer at Buro Happold.

Worried about where your project information is stored? A third of the respondents to Mail Manager’s latest annual research are. Indeed, they are very concerned about their project information not being readily available.

Focusing on built environment stakeholders needs’, their language and expressing benefits in that language is key to driving the effective adoption of information management processes.

The UK BIM Alliance has adopted a new name, Nima, and a new approach, putting the emphasis on information management rather than BIM.

Removing jargon, focusing on collaboration and greater interoperability of technology are the key solutions to improving the adoption of BIM and digital construction, according to readers’ responses to the latest annual Construction Management and BIMplus survey.

There follows an open letter from information management professionals offering their perspective on the recently published BS 8644-1 Digital management of fire safety information standard.

A new national standard relating fire safety information management has been published. Here Aman Sharma, its development lead, explains its genesis and deployment.

Balfour Beatty’s failed legal attempt to compel Broadway Malyan to retrieve documents relating to a building completed 13 years ago highlights the issues not only that information management can address in construction, but also the challenges around its retrospective application to the existing built environment

Acknowledging BIM’s slow adoption, the UK BIM Alliance is calling on the industry to re-focus away from BIM and on to the outcome of information management.

Poor information management is a contributory factor in disputes, new research from Mail Manager suggests.

Data standards experts Chris Lees and Nick Nisbet have developed a new data protocol to help improve the management of risks in the design, construction and management of new homes in scope of the Building Safety Act – and buildings more widely.