The Language of Digital Technologies

In reviewing the vocabulary of digital construction, this chapter clarifies the concepts of language and culture involved in the design and management activities around the conception of BIM Execution Plans, the use of Common Data Environment platforms, as well as in all the collaborative production of information according to the terminology established by BIM standards. There is an issue that new digital technologies are creating a diverging vocabulary that makes a common understanding more difficult. For example, the specification of information management for the delivery phase of construction projects using building information modelling and the recently published ISO 19650 series on information management are portrayed as essential guides to the architectural design and management in level 2 of BIM. They introduce a considerable amount of new concepts and definitions, which are discussed and interpreted in this chapter, with regard to the different experiences of countries’ adaptation to digital construction demands.