To enable smooth transition and ongoing maintenance of the facility, it is paramount that the knowledge and up to date technical information on that asset is collated and then handed over to the Authority. The Project Co should seek to begin the development of robust digital handover information including Operation and Maintenance, Health & Safety and all other information pertinent to the ongoing maintenance of the asset. The existing agreement will set out the handover information deliverables, however, where the change procedure is applied, the Authority should consider and clearly set out their information requirements at handover.
At a programme level, the Authority may consider the development of an organisational standard Operational & Maintenance information at handover. There are existing best practice approaches to effectively enable a Project Information Handover and a link to Building Information Modelling Level 2 - Stage 6 Handover and Close Out, and Stage 7 Operation in Use is included in Appendix 4.