The information content is produced by the building professionals the engineers, the architects, the building managers, and the owners. The information electronics are produced by the electronic data professionals. Today, we have the infrastructure of computer hardware, the operating systems, the application software, educated and trained users, community culture, and technical standards to implement this initiative. Also, fortunately or unfortunately, we have a business culture that means this is mandatory. With a continually changing workforce, an organization has to have the automation and electronic systems in place to keep its buildings economically viable and business functional.
Automation is a given.
We have to do what we can to reduce the cost and effort of implementing that automation. We are talking about minimizing the costs during the life cycle of a building from conceptualization to disposal. This information is used over and over. In the building industry today, the same information is repeatedly being manually gathered and entered many times. This is expensive, time consuming, and frustrating work performed by highly paid, electronically enlightened humans.