Not atraditional Common Data Environment but a HUB

A Common Data Environment (CDE) is a central repository where construction project information is stored and managed according to the ISO 19650 guidelines.
In a traditional approach, one of the project stakeholders – the real estate developer, architect coordinator or contractor, … - proposes a cloud based CDE (Aconex, Asite, Procore, …) to the different independent parties.

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With this central repository, project partners get :  

• better productivity
• improved communication
• qualitative deliverables (eg as-built … )

       
The limits in an increasingly digitalized context

Is this approach still working ?

With the time, more and more organisations have ‘their’ own construction Common Data environment and are … strongly willing to use it. This leads to an increase in the number of CDEs to learn and to taking the risk of no longer having control over your data.

This tension between this approach and the context of a construction project where there is not only one important partner that can “impose” explains why it is not possible (anymore) for a company to use the same Common Data Environment for all its construction projects.

Multiple Common Data Environments across project(s) lead to complexity, efforts to keep systems in sync and sometimes chaos.
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How to avoid multiple Common Data Environments ? 

Processes and tools need to acknowledge that different organisations working temporary on a project want sometimes to use their own tools and to keep a central repository for the data of all their projects.

Starting from there we have developed a new approach and logic where the Cooperlink Construction Hubcan be tightly linked with your own repository (File server, Sharepoint, …) and the EDMS or the CDE's of the project partners (Aconex, Asite, Bricsys, BIM360, ...).

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Unique but proven 😊.

One of the finalists of the MIPIM 2023 made use this new approach (ZIN project - BPC / Van Laere) simplifying communication and collaboration. More information about the ZIN project here.