ABSTRACT
Information and communication have always been important to architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) projects, yet approaches for managing information have generally been informal and ad-hoc. While information and communication technologies (ICT) have the potential to provide huge rewards to project organizations, they often fail to do so.The value can only be realized with effective management processes. We have argued that the AEC industry would benefit from the development of project information management (PIM) as a well-understood and formalized sub-discipline of project management. Not only would this benefit projects in general, but it seems to be a necessary pre-condition to the successful implementation of more complex emerging ICT such as Building Information Models (BIM).
