The skills already exist. They need to meet the built environment.

Information management for buildings and infrastructure draws on fields that are already mature elsewhere: architecture, integration, master data, analytics, GIS and document control. Bringing them together, through the ISO 19650 series and towards digital twins, is where the biggest gains are.

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Eight disciplines converging on information management and the ISO 19650 series

Skills transfer

Many people already have the skills

Across finance, government, utilities, technology and many other sectors, thousands of people already work with digital information, data and systems every day. Most of them have never worked with those in the built environment.

Their skills are exactly what buildings and infrastructure need. What's missing is a bridge: the language, roles and processes of the ISO 19650 series, so their experience can be applied to built assets with confidence.

Skills from other sectors crossing an ISO 19650 bridge into the built environment

Mature disciplines

Eight fields, one goal: trusted information

Some of these are familiar in the built environment. Others are long-established elsewhere but rarely named in our industry.

ARCHITECTURE

Enterprise architecture

A blueprint of how the whole organisation works: its goals, processes, information and systems, and how they fit together. It makes sure every change serves the business as a whole.

ARCHITECTURE

Solution architecture

The design of a specific system or solution so it meets its requirements and fits the wider enterprise: what it does, what it connects to and how.

INTEGRATION

Systems integration

Making separate systems work as one, so information entered once flows to everyone who needs it, instead of being re-keyed or lost.

DATA

Master data management

One agreed, governed record for each asset, location and organisation, with a unique ID and an owner, used by every system.

DATA

Business intelligence and analytics

Already a large, mature industry. The ISO 19650 series touches it only indirectly, through the common data environment, yet it's how information becomes decisions.

LOCATION

Geographic information systems

A discipline that already looks across the whole life of an asset: where it is, what it connects to, and how it changes over time.

MODELLING

Building information modelling

Rightly or wrongly, BIM has become shorthand for much of this work. It matters, but it's one important part of information management, not the whole.

DOCUMENTS

Document management and control

Highly mature already, yet not always given enough attention in the ISO 19650 series. Documents are information too, and there's real opportunity to integrate them better.

Where it leads

Convergence leads to digital twins

When these disciplines work together, information about an asset stays trusted and current across its whole life. That's the foundation of a digital twin: one that feeds and maintains the asset information model and supports strategic asset management.

Master dataOne record for each asset

IntegrationSystems that share

Information modelTrusted, whole-life records

Digital twinKept in step with reality

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How we help

Bridging the disciplines

Skills transfer: the ISO 19650 series explained for data, IT and GIS professionals
Enterprise and solution architecture for information management
Systems integration across the CDE, EAM, CAFM and GIS
Master data management for asset registers
Document management and control, joined up with asset data
Analytics and location analytics on trusted information