Digital construction and information management workflow. Part 3 - risks and challenges associated with information management

The sudden increase in digitisation within the Construction Industry requires a fast transformation of traditional processes; thus, the development of practical guidance ready for the execution is critical. With the emergence and publication of a large number of Building Information Modelling (BIM) standards during the last few months, a large suite of international guidance documents complementing ISO 19650 framework was created to explicate concepts and principles for digitisation, classification and organisation of information, and digital processes used in construction. A comparison of these standards and guidance documents shows lack of intended reinforcement of existing publications. Instead there is evidence of repetitive concepts or introduction of a level of uncertainty. This study analyses information management-related heuristics, challenges associated with accountability, uncertainty, and expectations, as well as related outcome expectations. Their goal is to eliminate or reduce routine tasks and enable informed decision-making