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A CDE should be adopted to allow informa-
tion to be shared between all parties involved,
across the asset lifecycle in delivery and oper-
ation of built assets. Productivity improves by
sharing digital information and thereby improv-
ing collaboration between parties. It reduces
the need for hard copies of deliverables, it
re-uses information and it prevents the use
of unreliable or obsolete information thereby
reducing financial losses. All the information,
data and metadata can be verified in real time.
It is important to consider security and data
quality and integrate appropriate protocols in
the CDE.

Figure 2: The structure of a Common Data Environment, according to ISO 19650

(b) Requirements management

The purpose of having information requirements is to specify the information that the asset or project supply chain members need
to deliver as part of their work. They will be stored in the asset information model or project information model respectively. The
different types of information requirements are shown in Figure 3.

Information Requirements management represents one of the main concepts of ISO 19650: BIM is a process of information delivery
in accordance with requirements management coming from the systems engineering approach, developed for other industries. It
includes:
• Organisational Information Requirements (OIR) – those pieces of information needed to answer or inform high-level
strategic objectives within the asset owner/operator in relation to the built assets owned, operated, used or managed

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