London's east–west railway set up a common data environment and asset information system for a programme of many contractors, aiming to hand the operator one trusted source of information.
Crossrail built the Elizabeth line, a railway across London with new tunnels and stations, delivered by many contractors over more than a decade and opened in 2022. Its information management is one of the most widely cited BIM programmes in infrastructure, because the project published its approach and lessons in the Crossrail Learning Legacy.
Crossrail shows information management at programme scale: the point is not one perfect model but consistent rules, one place for information and a planned handover to the operator. Keeping the models simple and the data in databases made it practical across many contractors and tools.
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