Development of a governance framework for delivery of collaborative and security-minded BIM projects
type: CreativeWork
description: This study explores secure-collaboration for BIM projects in response to concerns as to whetherproject environments concerned with critical national infrastructure are able to govern digitalsecurity-risks whilst also reconciling tensions between collaborative motives, leading to difficultiesin sharing enough information to ensure stakeholder efficiency whilst not exposing sensitivitiesand elevating security-risk. This research aims to address these issues by: Devising a conceptualprocess and data governance framework to enable secure collaboration for BIM projects. Inachieving this aim, the study captures the framework’s requirements by answering the firstresearch question: What is the nature of tensions between collaboration and security motiveswithin security-minded BIM projects that are barriers to achieving secure-collaboration? Thisquestion’s answer is central to answering the second question: What is the nature of the processand data governance framework that is required to resolve existing tensions and enable securecollaboration?This thesis captures requirements via a thorough study (primary and secondary) in the contextof security-minded BIM projects. The design-science methodology was adopted to guide theframework development and evaluation; semi-structured interviews with 13 experts were used todiagnose the tensions concerning: security-risk governance, BIM process and technologyimplementation, alongside BIM governance limitations. Based upon findings, the framework’srequirements for comprising process and data governance concepts were developed. Theframework was evaluated with 8 experts via a qualitative feedback categorisation technique toassess its capacity to facilitate secure-collaboration.The outcome of the diagnostics process revealed that tensions arise within projects due to a lackof a holistic security-risk governance approach, and a misalignment between project collaborationand security requirements. This leads to a cascade of incompatible proje…
abstract: This study explores secure-collaboration for BIM projects in response to concerns as to whetherproject environments concerned with critical national infrastructure are able to govern digitalsecurity-risks whilst also reconciling tensions between collaborative motives, leading to difficultiesin sharing enough information to ensure stakeholder efficiency whilst not exposing sensitivitiesand elevating security-risk. This research aims to address these issues by: Devising a conceptualprocess and data governance framework to enable secure collaboration for BIM projects. Inachieving this aim, the study captures the framework’s requirements by answering the firstresearch question: What is the nature of tensions between collaboration and security motiveswithin security-minded BIM projects that are barriers to achieving secure-collaboration? Thisquestion’s answer is central to answering the second question: What is the nature of the processand data governance framework that is required to resolve existing tensions and enable securecollaboration?This thesis captures requirements via a thorough study (primary and secondary) in the contextof security-minded BIM projects. The design-science methodology was adopted to guide theframework development and evaluation; semi-structured interviews with 13 experts were used todiagnose the tensions concerning: security-risk governance, BIM process and technologyimplementation, alongside BIM governance limitations. Based upon findings, the framework’srequirements for comprising process and data governance concepts were developed. Theframework was evaluated with 8 experts via a qualitative feedback categorisation technique toassess its capacity to facilitate secure-collaboration.The outcome of the diagnostics process revealed that tensions arise within projects due to a lackof a holistic security-risk governance approach, and a misalignment between project collaborationand security requirements. This leads to a cascade of incompatible proje…
author: Mamun, M
language: en
date published: 2021
date modified: 2026-07-24T04:26:06Z
provider: U. of Salford
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: U. of Salford