ISO 19650 and information management

ISO 19650 (parts 1–6) sets out how to manage information over an asset's life: the concepts (part 1), delivery during design and construction (part 2), operations (part 3), information exchange (part 4), security (part 5) and health and safety (part 6). Many countries publish national annexes with local details such as naming. It doesn't prescribe software.

Responses to the EIR are written in the BIM execution plan (BEP), and deliverables are scheduled in the Master Information Delivery Plan (MIDP) and task plans (TIDPs).

The appointing party (usually the client) appoints a lead appointed party (e.g. the main contractor or lead designer), who appoints appointed parties (consultants, subcontractors). Delivery teams are made up of task teams.

A CDE is the agreed source of information, with a workflow of states:

• Work in progress (WIP) — visible to the task team only.

• Shared — checked and shared with other teams for coordination.

• Published — authorised for use, e.g. for construction.

• Archived — the record of everything published.

Each container carries status and revision metadata; moving between states requires checking and approval.

National annexes define container naming with fields such as Project–Originator–Volume/System–Level/Location–Type–Role–Number, e.g. KW23-ARC-ZZ-01-M3-A-0001 for an architectural model of level 01. Consistent naming lets thousands of files be found and filtered.