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Budget

The tender response for designing, constructing and operating the existing building and the additional extension shall include the project budget’s bid documentation. The budget must incorporate the total amount of

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secondary power supply (SPS)

alternative or supplementary electrical energy sources has become more viable, typical secondary power supply (SPS) Photovoltaic (PV) power Wind turbine power standby generator

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Design-Bid-Build

A contract type There is a sequential award of two separate contracts; the first contract is for design services; the second contract is for construction; design and construction of the

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PAS 1192-7

The latest message related to PAS 1192-7 is a tweet from Paul Surin is that PAS1192-7 confirming that CPNI and  BSI have agreed to cease the development of PAS 1192-7.

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Target Value Design

Target Value Designs (TVD) focus is on reducing the cost of a project without reducing the quality of the end product or extending the timetable. The team sets a cost

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Dictionary
Jarek Wityk

BS EN ISO 9001:2015

Quality management systems Requirements ISO 9001 is a set of quality management principles defined by various criteria and standards. It outlines the importance of defining a quality management system (QMS)

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efficiency

correlation between the outcome and the resources used a measure of the utilization of resources to realize a given objective Note 1 to entry: An activity is efficient if it minimizes

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Diversity

It is often not desirable to size each conductor in a distribution system to support the total connected load at that point in the network.Diversity is applied on the basis

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Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)

The industrial IoT (IIoT) forms an integral part of Industry 4.0, and smart manufacturing refers to interconnected sensors, and other input/output devices linked to manufacturing applications, supporting industrial automation and

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Cyber-Physical Systems

Systems that include integrations of computation, networking, and physical processes with feedback loops where physical processes affect computations and vice versa4. An example of a Cyber-Physical System is a Digital

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Information Delivery Manual (IDM)

information delivery manual (IDM) Documentation that captures the business process and specifies in detail the information that a user performing a particular role is required to provide at a particular

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Open Data

The Open Data Institute (ODI) defines open data as information that is licensed for anyone to use for any purpose at no cost. Open data can be accessed, used and

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knowledge model

information model that expresses knowledge in a computer interpretable structure Note 1 to entry: A knowledge model consists of a number of expressions of facts about a concept, each of which

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system of insight

A system of insights can helps your company make decisions, and it is designed to be part of business decision-making process. It involves gather data, use it, find relationships and

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Appointee

    UK BIM Alliance responding to the inconsistency between current  guidance of CIC BIM Protocol, Second Edition 2018 and ISO 19650 Framework published updated Information protocol to support BS EN

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Construction Products Regulation (CPR)

Construction Products Regulation (CPR) https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/construction/product-regulation_en#:~:text=The%20Construction%20Products%20Regulation%20(CPR,the%20performance%20of%20construction%20products.

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DWG

DWG (“drawing format”) is a binary file format licensed by Autodesk and used for storing two and limited three-dimensional design data and metadata. It is the native format for several

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Handover

After the project is completed, the Appointing Party expects to receive Asset Information Model (AIM) compliant with the Exchange Information Requirements (EIR).   The aim is to support the life

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Federated Information Model

Computer science and IT In the fields of computer science and information technology, a federated information model refers to a structure where data is stored across multiple independent systems but can

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AD Hoc Group (AHG)

AD HOC GROUP (AHG) Group set up within a committee to look into a particular problem and report back to the parent committee at a meeting. The group is disbanded after

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Classification and Standardisation
Jarek Wityk

Complete information

adjective In Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC), complete information is information which includes all the necessary and typical parts or elements, lacking nothing. For the information to be deemed complete,

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capability

a measure of ability to perform and function [cited from ISO 19650-1:2018(en), 3.3.18]

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Information delivery cycle

It is a term introduced first in PAS 1192 and updated in ISO 19650 framework, it depicts the process of specifying and delivery of project and asset information summarised in

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BS 7799‑3:2017

Information security management systemsPart 3: Guidelines for information security risk management (revision of BS ISO/IEC 27005:2011)

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supply chain

Term used to describe the relationship between organisation that provide materials, products or services for the client. Referring to ISO 19650 Framework the supply chain is synonymous to a ‘delivery

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Post-appointment BEP

Post-appointment BEP confirms and defines the delivery team’s approach to information management in the appointed project. It is a BIM Execution Plan (BEP) which shall be re-submitted by the Lead

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SMART Information requirements

The acronym SMART has been defined by the PAS 1192‑2: 2013 clause 5.1.3. the term means that Information req BS ISO 31000:2018 PAS 11922: 2013 clause 5.1.3 defines the acronym

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Committee

This could be: a Technical Committee (TC), which develops standards in a certain sector or industry; a Subcommittee (SC), which addresses a specialized area within a TC; a Project Committee

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Delivery team

In ISO 19650 the Delivery team term replaces the term ‘ Project Delivery team’ the meaning meant to remain the same, but the change puts the client (Appointing Party) outside

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Project BIM Coordinator

Responsible, during the design stages, for executing, managing and running clash detection of the federated Project Information Model (PIM), and federating and QA reviewing the Asset Information Model (AIM) for

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Quantity Surveyor (QS)

person who provides financial and contractual advice and services for planning, carrying out and completion (3.5.23) of construction works https://www.iso.org/obp/ui#iso:std:iso:6707:-2:ed-3:v1:en:term:3.8.25

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workflow

The term ‘workflow’ is used in ISO 19650 instead of the PAS 1192 term ‘process’.

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Insurance Backed Alliancing

A new procurement method coupled up with Integrated Project Insurance model (IPI) is a framework which encourages and empowers project teams to work together. The procurement method introduced by Constructing Excellence

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ubiquitous access

The modern era of IT has turned to ubiquitous access to all organizations and users. The vision is  to provide one “universal access,” i.e. access to all IT services, regardless

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Post-contract BEP

This PAS 1192 term has been superseded by ISO 19650 term Post-appointment BEP. It is a BIM Execution Plan (BEP) which shall be re-submitted by the Lead Appointed Party and

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Quality Assurance (QA)

Quality assurance (QA) is the action or process of verification that a requirement in terms of quality is being met. Managing the quality involves planning, establishing a workflow for fulfilling,

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Integrated Project Insurance (IPI)

The integrated Project Insurance model (IPI) coupled up with Insurance Backed Alliancing is a framework which encourages and empowers project teams to work together. The procurement method introduced by Constructing Excellence

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agent

…’An agent is just something that acts (agent comes from the Latin agree, to do). Of course, all computer programs do something, but computer agents are expected to do more:

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racetrack

Information delivery cycle It is a term introduced first in PAS 1192 and updated in ISO 19650 framework, it depicts the process of specifying and delivery of project and asset

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Plain Language Questions (PLQ)

The publication of ISO 19650 set of standards replaces use of PLQ and instead introduce the term with exchange information requirements (EIR) and project information requirements (PIR). Project information requirements

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Tier 2

In the construction industry, Tier 2 is a Contractor referred in ISO 19650 as the Appointed party with a sub-contract who provide goods or services directly to the Lead Appointed

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