Venue: Chartered Accountants House, Pearse Street, Dublin Date:
5th April 2023
Event: Three Title:
Eliminating information silos and poor information practices
ESB Headquarters in Dublin. On occasions it is necessary to bring in external support. However, in more recent times the company has increased in-house expertise to manage the digital information requirements on projects. Reference was made to the importance of embracing information management standards/certification like ISO 19650, which is an information management standard for managing information over the whole life cycle of a built asset using building information modelling (BIM). Specifically Sarah referred to the eight stage information management process within ISO19650-2 which applies to all formally “Appointed Parties” who are exchanging BIM data on a project. It is important that companies like Walls integrate ISO19650 processes within the project work flows.
Speaker: Sarah Ryan, Digital Project Delivery Lead – Walls Construction Ltd Title: The Importance of Good Information Management Sarah is currently Digital Project Delivery Lead in Walls Construction Limited, with over 5 years in the AEC industry. She is responsible for providing leadership and direction of certain BIM technologies to project teams and has experience using a range of application platforms and complex systems. Sarah began her presentation by focusing on what good information management looks like in construction. She spoke about the array of data exchanged between stakeholders on a typical construction project. It covers data created from multiple sources during the design and construction phases of a project. This inevitably will involve a variety of information formats. This challenge is more acute on projects where BIM data is generated in multiple proprietary software formats that are not interoperable. Walls’ digital journey was outlined with reference to signature projects like Boland’s Quay, EXO Building, DCU Future Campus and 1|Page
Sarah spoke of the three key ingredients required to achieve good information management practice i.e. People, Process and Tools (Technology). It is important that staff receive the correct level of training on information management tools and processes, and information management standards. Train the trainer is a good process to follow by allowing those specially trained to train others within your organisation. It is also important to recruit people within specific information management roles or BIM roles and of course to identify potential digital leaders in your business.