ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the complexity of information requirements. The design team’s new information workflow includes plugging the architect’s information into virtual reality, connecting the engineer’s disparate data sources to the models, and analysis software, and the provision of cost advice driven from the design team’s model. From a client perspective, there is a difference between how an experienced client commissioning projects on a regular and repeat basis, and a client commissioning their first project, might set their information requirements. The changing nature of the design process outlined throughout the publication underlines the need for the client, design and construction teams to carefully consider the most effective information requirements for the design stages. The digital twin enables the predicted performance to be compared with actual performance. The designer is responsible for all aspects of the design, including calculations and the specification of products. Prescriptive designs can sometimes require shop drawings to be produced by suppliers for fabrication purposes.
