Shaping the memory of complex buildings

Benefits

  • Thematic viewBetter collaboration, across teams and across different software systems - With CodeBook accessible from users of different design applications, data can readily be shared across project teams, and made available for exchange with fellow professionals involved in the operation and maintenance of complex built facilities.
  • Greater re-use of information throughout the building life-cycle - Once, design professionals used to re-key information as they did not trust fellow professionals to delivery accurate data specific to their needs. Now, instead of data being keyed in repeatedly by users of discipline-specific applications, CodeBook's interoperability means design attribute data can be seamlessly exchanged between professionals' tools, and progressively updated and expanded without any loss of integrity.
  • Improved auditability - As users interact with CodeBook, the application tracks what has been changed, by whom and when. From briefing stage right through to planned maintenance, the originators and editors of building information are recorded.
  • Better validation - CodeBook provides visible validation of designs, comparing client requirements with design outputs - from zones and rooms to equipment lists - and identifying any discrepancies.
  • Enhanced role of designers as client advisors - By using CodeBook to collate the functional requirements of buildings and detailed information about the fixtures, furniture and equipment necessary to accomplish those functions, designers can immediately relate their design proposals to the client's brief and to future operation and maintenance.
  • A more holistic perspective - With clients increasingly demanding better value from their built assets, CodeBook consolidates the designer's key role in creating and managing data, differentiating firms with long-term understanding of their clients' needs from those only concerned with the design-to-handover phases.
  • A better corporate memory - Particularly for 'serial builders' ie: clients who frequently invest in new build, refurbishment and extension of their buildings, CodeBook captures detailed information from initial projects that can be used and updated as templates - "a kit of parts" - for subsequent schemes. "In-use" data from existing, completed facilities can inform the design of new projects, enabling a virtuous spiral of continuous improvement.