Golden thread: 'No clear consensus' on who owns project data

摘要

There is no clear consensus over who owns project data at the start of a construction project, despite Dame Judith Hackitt's call for a digital 'golden thread' of information following the Grenfell Tower disaster.That is one of the key findings from a survey by i3PT Certification and the CIOB. The Golden Thread study showed construction professionals are more comfortable assigning ownership responsibilities to other parties, rather than taking them on themselves.Some 30% of respondents thought data and information relating to an asset belonged to the client at design stage, with 22% thinking it rested with the information author and 31% thinking it belonged to the lead designer.At construction stage, 45% thought it belonged to the contractor, with 28% thinking ownership still rested with the client. But by the operation stage, 75% thought it was owned by the client and just 3% with the contractor.