INNOVance web portal: a standardised building process management system

Objective. Main goal of this paper is the presentation of the project web portal, a powerful tool connected to the INNOVance construction process database, enabling users performing queries, managing projects, looking for producers and construction companies and even, in a short future, using it for tenders management, both public and private. Context. The web portal is the direct link to the database, which is the first Italian standardised collector of information related to the construction process. It has been designed to be a flexible, easy-to-use and interoperable instrument for building process management. Thus to cover the increasing demand of quality and transparency in the whole process, avoiding overcosts and delays. Industrial perspective. Producers, professionals and construction companies are, together with clients (both public and private) main users of this tool, which is designed to be a work- platform, instead of a simple interface for information download. Users can take advantage from this tool by using its own functions or gathering data to be used in third party software. Work description. The project is almost finished and the web interface will shortly enter the test phase. The portal collected, during the design stage, many requirements and feedbacks from stakeholders involved in the project and the beta tests will also measure the success in fulfilling requirements. Results and further developments. The portal has a lot of functions: BIM library, BIM server, search/creation/management of INNOVance objects (from the complete work to the single product) and also search of producers, professionals and construction companies. Future developments include tenders management and third party software interaction with a dedicated API.