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When BIM started it was all about 3D, improving coordination of geometry in the project process and exploiting the potential to master complex shapes.

Now it鈥檚 becoming clear that the biggest payback is to clients in the form of whole-life asset and facility management support, 6D BIM. The fourth ICE BIM Conference last week illustrated that as infrastructure clients showed how they are going digital with asset information. Anne Kemp quoted the first of Steven Povey鈥檚 seven habits for effective people: 鈥淪tart with the end in mind鈥�. The required asset information is the starting point for the project 鈥渆mployers information requirements鈥� (EIRs). The team creating PAS1192-3, the guide to asset information management, admit that had this been the first 1192 supplement created then the current PAS1192-2 would have benefitted.

We hand over two assets at Stage 6 now: a real building and a digital one. That digital database should not just be the archived record of the project鈥檚 design and construction but a tailored support to operation, maintenance, and space and asset management.

Infrastructure clients now clearly get this: their assets are the business. 黑洞社区 clients can learn from them.

Richard Saxon CBE is a client adviser at Consultancy for the Built Environment and author of Growth through BIM.