Fundamental questions about management practices are raised by the activities involved in the production and use of long-term physical assets such as buildings and infrastructure. Diverse social groups are involved in the various stages of design, delivery, maintenance, use and re-purposing. How can knowledge be sustained across these different stages?
Information technologies are increasingly seen as part of the solution. The UK government has announced its intention to increase the use building information modelling and management over the next five years. New technologies provide the potential to integrate diverse streams of data about buildings and infrastructure, through a range of CAD, GIS and asset management software solutions. We will be discussing these opportunities, and the challenges, at the 'Engineering Management in the Digital Economy' at the end of this week.
