Information management doesn't end at handover. Under ISO 19650-3 the owner keeps the asset information model accurate for decades, through every maintenance contract, repair and alteration. The information manager sets up how that works.
At handover, the project information model has done its job: the asset is built. From now on, the asset information model (AIM) is what the owner relies on, for decades. ISO 19650-3 describes how to keep it right. From the information manager's seat, the task is to set up the operational phase as carefully as the delivery phase.
In operation the owner or operator sets the requirements: organisational information requirements (what the organisation needs to know to run its estate), turned into asset information requirements (AIR) per asset type. Writing good AIR is covered in Writing asset information requirements; here the point is that they apply to every party who works on the asset, not only the original contractor.
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