TY - BOOK AU - Koutamanis,Alexander ED - Open Textbook Library TI - Building Information - Representation and Management: Fundamentals and Principles T2 - Open textbook library AV - TA145 PB - Open Textbook Library KW - Engineering KW - Textbooks KW - Civil N1 - Part I. Digitization -- 1. Digital information -- Part II. Building representation -- 2. Representation -- 3. Analogue respresentations -- 4. Building representations in BIM -- Part III. Information: theory and management -- 5. Data and information -- 6. Information management -- 7. Process and information -- Part IV. Exercises -- Key concepts -- Exercise I: maintenance -- Exercise II: change management -- Exercise III: circular energy transition N2 - The book presents a coherent theory of building information, focusing on its representation and management in the digital era. It addresses issues such as the information explosion and the structure of analogue building representations to propose a parsimonious approach to the deployment and utilization of symbolic digital technologies like BIM UR - https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/697 ER -