Digital Built Asset Management: From Theories to Applications

This insightful book presents a comprehensive understanding of the new technologies impacting digital built asset and facility management. Informative and accessible, it illustrates how the concepts, principles, strategies and applications of digital built asset management can be improved and implemented in real-life practice.

Bringing together experts in this rapidly developing area, Digital Built Asset Management outlines the fundamentals of the field and explores key aspects such as outsourcing, procurement and maintenance management. Chapter authors discuss digital innovation and its effects on asset management, in particular the efficacy of smart building practices. Highlighting a diverse range of perspectives on asset management, the book concludes by proposing a framework for the future development of digital built asset management, underpinned by a critical analysis of the evolution of technologies such as building information modeling, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and blockchain.

This book is an invaluable resource for students and researchers specializing in digital built asset management, construction management, project management and surveying. Its pairing of theory and real-life practice will also be of use to facility managers and professionals in the trade.

Edited by Qiuchen Lu, Professor in Digital Built Asset and Facility Management and Michael Pitt, Professor, The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London, UK