In 2018, the Hong Kong Government issued "Construction Industry 2.0-Time for Change". It proposed that innovation, specialization and activation can reform and upgrade the construction industry to enhance its productivity and sustainability, strengthen the regulation and quality assurance, improve site safety and reduce environmental impact.
Since then, BIM has been widely adopted in the industry and has proven its benefits. The Common Data Environment (CDE) is a workflow technology solution that works closely with BIM. It is regarded as one of the pillars of digital architecture. CDE is a tool to further improve the effective use of BIM. The adoption of CDE in the workflow helps to ensure that the BIM models can serve as a single source of fact for collaboration throughout the project lifecycle. It highlights the importance of CDE as an information management and collaboration tool for BIM models and information, as well as the entire project lifecycle for any building asset.