Asset performance does not begin when a facility is occupied. It begins with the Asset Owner.

This is the university campus data gap: the structured, CMMS-importable asset information that maintenance planners, facilities managers, and compliance teams need to run and account for every building in the estate is routinely missing at the moment it is most needed - and most cheaply corrected.

Designers, contractors, and asset owners have all wanted a common format capable of transferring roads, railways, bridges, ports, and utilities between applications without losing information or fidelity

For many asset owners and facilities teams, IFC models are still perceived as a handover artifact—a snapshot frozen at Practical Completion, archived, and rarely revisited. This mindset significantly underutilises the value of IFC during the Operations stage, where accurate, trusted information delivers the greatest return on investment. As facilities become more data-driven and IWMS platforms mature, IFC models are increasingly repositioned as controlled reference models tha