Digitalization of Construction Industry Process Management

In Construction Industry sector, an innovative approach called Building Information Modeling (BIM) is emerging as a new method to manage the whole building life cycle through a parametric informative virtual model. Compared to Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), a holistic approach widespread and consolidated in the manufacturing sector, the BIM use in maintenance phase represents a unexpressed potentiality. Against this background the paper presents a qualitative investigation into the current building heritage processes management in a French real estate company. To close the gap of traditional process, the case study proposes the digitalization of company operations in a Building Lifecycle Management (BLM) environment, resulting by the integration of the PLM and BIM approaches.