Towards an improved framework for enterprise BIM: the role of ISO 19650

Enterprise BIM aims to optimise business management and asset management throughout the life-cycle of buildings and infrastructures. This follow-up study of the Enterprise BIM concept analyses the potential for international standardisation, mainly focusing on the contribution of the ISO 19650 standard series to further development. The study explores how key ISO 19650 concepts related to different types of information requirements, levels of information need, and common data environments can help strengthen Enterprise BIM. As such, the paper presents an in-depth analysis of how the ISO 19650 series and several adjacent standards can provide a further means of facilitating information management within the Enterprise BIM concept. The study uses a customised Zachman framework by adding the necessary perspectives from ISO 19650 and Enterprise BIM. The paper adds increased knowledge related to understanding the standard series parts 1, 2 and 3 and showing how they can be implemented in an enterprise structure. Based on the ISO 19650 framework, the study emphasises the importance of linking the information requirements to the various information needs of multiple end-users. At the same time, the paper provides new knowledge by showing that the information flow in the operational phase is far more nuanced than in the delivery phase, suggesting that information management must be considered in a completely different light from what previous research shows.