MARCH 20239This growing familiarity with intelligent systems is increasing consumer appetite & expectation & for data, which is beginning to impact builders of new homesBIM ResearchThe researchers wanted maintenance information delivered in formats consistent with how they manage the rest of their lives with calendar invites, notifications, and links to FAQs and shareable specifications.A new section that emerged was the data increase which is required by the finance and regulatory industries. There is significant pressure on homeowners knowing that their homes are built of and being able to share that on to finance & insurance companies. In the same vein, the increasing emphasis on net zero means homeowners need to know about their home's energy performance & the nature of the materials utilized to build it.Most of the data we as core to this new homeowner experience can be built simply by suppliers & providers of components of new-homes. In this new-world, the information has to be spread and held in connected, open-web formats. The developer's role of finding ways to pass it on in forms and in services that make sense to home-owners.Property logbooks deliver homeowners with a home management dashboard and a secure-data store. They are an evolutionary step-beyond the simple developer portal and are digital asset that builds over-time to be passed to future-owners on sale. Property logbook as a `related-digital-asset' is at present included in the data-schemas being developed by the conveyancing industry.ConclusionOne of the key findings of the term - Re-Imagining BIM project was that it is possible to interlink property logbooks to construction software & developer-portals so that the foundation and handover of property logbooks can be part of a digital-workflow. BIM gets adopted, and these integrations will be more straightforward, and the data flow more seamless. However, it needs data-planning at the beginning of the construction process.The step is to recognize that data which is now a core-part of the `product', not an add-on or customer service feature, where builders of houses need to remember they have responsibilities to their buyers in this world.
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