What is PAS 1192?
Back in 2007 BS1192 set out the processes to be followed within a common data environment (CDE) for collaboratively sharing information.
The PAS for 1192-2, the CAP-EX (Construction and Design period) or for PAS1192-3 the OP-EX (the strategic and operational period) both refer back to 2007 and say that the same process must be used for sharing information within the common data environment—and that information is not just models, it’s everything—documents, drawings, data and model files.
The following diagram shows the process to be followed:
Everything starts with Work In Progress (WIP)—and this is only viewable to you and your company. But the standard is very clear that this information should be loaded onto the CDE and this is because the checks and processes of approval within your own company should still be recorded, so if at any stage in the future there is a problem, it is possible to go back and examine whether those processes actually took place.
Once WIP gets a ‘shared’ status other members of the design and construction team can see your work—it may be shared for coordination and clash detection (or any process that requires input from somebody else). You’ve also got the possibility to make your work ‘Client Shared’—which means that this particular piece of work which is not the finished article is visible to the client for approval or comment.
