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Free OIR, PIR and AIR templates

Know what information you need before you ask anyone for it

OIR, PIR and AIR are the ISO 19650 requirements an appointing party sets before any EIR: what the organisation needs to know to run itself (OIR), to make this project's decisions (PIR) and to operate each asset (AIR). These free templates give you the structure, so every EIR traces back to a real need.

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Plannerly Docs: the EIR in the ISO 19650 contract example, with its OIR, PIR and AIR sections, from vision and strategic goals to maintainable assets, as the whole category is set to Published

Sound familiar?

Handover data nobody uses, because nobody asked the right questions

The problem

Without an OIR, PIR and AIR, the EIR is a guess

Models fill up with data nobody needs, and the facts your operators do need are missing at handover. Start from the questions your organisation has to answer, then ask only for the information that answers them.

What are OIR, PIR and AIR?

ISO 19650-1 describes a chain of information requirements that starts with the client, not the project:

  • OIR - organisational information requirements: the information the organisation needs to meet its goals - running its business, managing its assets, meeting regulation.
  • PIR - project information requirements: the information needed to make the key decisions on this project, stage by stage.
  • AIR - asset information requirements: the information needed to operate and maintain each asset once it's handed over.

Together they decide what goes in each EIR. Skip them, and the EIR is copied from the last job.

What's in each template

  • OIR template: your organisation's goals, the questions you need information to answer, and who uses the answers.
  • PIR template: the project's key decision points and the plain-language questions behind each one.
  • AIR template: the assets you'll maintain, the information you need about each one, and the format you need it in.

Why the AIR works better as a list

An AIR written as prose can't be checked. In Plannerly you keep the AIR as a structured list of assets in Scope - entered by hand, from templates or the buildingSMART Data Dictionary, or imported from a spreadsheet - with the information each one needs and a rule to check it. Then you can contract for it and check the models against it. Create an AIR in Plannerly walks through it, and the UK BIM Framework's guidance on developing information requirements covers all three.

How to use them

Fill in the OIR, PIR and AIR in four steps

  1. Write the OIR

    Start from the OIR template in Docs: the goals and questions your organisation needs information to answer, across projects and assets.

    Goals every requirement traces to

  2. Ask the project's questions

    In the PIR, list the decisions this project must make at each stage and the information each one needs.

    Requirements tied to real decisions

  3. List the assets (AIR)

    In Scope, list the assets you'll maintain - by hand, from templates or the buildingSMART Data Dictionary, or from a spreadsheet - with what you need on each.

    A structured AIR, not a PDF

  4. Hand it to the EIR

    Turn what this project needs into the EIR for each appointment, and check delivered models against the AIR in Verify.

    Handover data you'll use

Free lessons

Learn the OIR, PIR and AIR, one short lesson each

Level 3 lesson - OIR

(OIR) Organizational Information Requirements

What your organisation needs to know, and how it shapes every project after.

 Level 3 lesson - PIR

(PIR) Project Information Requirements

The decisions this project has to make, and the information each one needs.

 Level 3 lesson - AIR

(AIR) Asset Information Requirements

The information your operators need about every asset after handover.

 Level 1 lesson - Scope

Importing Example Information Requirements from Library

Starting the requirements list from the Library instead of a blank page.

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Surviving ISO 19650 Information Requirements with AI

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Free download

The OIR, AIR and EIR slides from our ISO 19650 training, free to download

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Information Requirements Survival Kit: a starter project and the EIR, OIR and AIR PDFs

Stop copying the last job's EIR. Start from a requirements project for Plannerly, with the EIR, OIR and AIR explained in three PDFs from our free ISO 19650 training.

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Information requirements starter project

OIR and EIR documents in Docs and a structured requirements list in Scope, staged by milestone and ready for your own assets and task teams.

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PDF ISO 19650 EIR explained.pdfExchange information requirements: what each appointed party must deliver, and when PDF ISO 19650 OIR explained.pdfOrganisational information requirements: the goals every other requirement traces back to PDF ISO 19650 AIR explained.pdfAsset information requirements: the data you need to operate and maintain each asset

More free downloads

The PIR slides, a requirements sheet to import, and the official guidance

ISO 19650 PIR explained (PDF)

Project information requirements, from our free training: the decisions each stage has to make, and the information behind them.

Free downloadPDF

Information requirements import sheet (CSV)

Example requirements with a verification rule for each, ready to import into Scope and adapt for your own assets.

Free downloadCSV

UK BIM Framework: developing information requirements

Guidance Part D, the UK BIM Framework's own guide to the OIR, PIR, AIR and EIR.

Official guidancePDF

Setup guides

Set up the OIR, PIR and AIR in Plannerly

Short Help Center guides that walk you through each step in Plannerly. Open one beside the app and follow along.

Free certificate

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BIM Management Basics

Docs, Scope and Verify from the start: templates, requirements, responsibilities and model checking, with a free certificate.

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The whole ISO 19650 process, every document on this page included, with a free certificate. 16,600+ people have taken our free training.

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Case studies

Owners who made their requirements checkable

  • Singapore

    95% faster

    Model validation time

    From 11,000 Excel rows to automated checks

    JTC Corporation · Government agency

    Eliminated 11,000 Excel rows and automated compliance checks across 2,000+ object types and 27 model categories with Plannerly's Verify module.

    Before Plannerly, it took weeks to do model checks. Now we do it in hours.
    John Kiong, Director · JTC Corporation
    • ISO 19650
    • Verify
    • Government
  • Australia

    Government QA

    Model data checked against information requirements

    Government model checking for transport infrastructure

    Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads · Government owner

    Queensland's Department of Transport and Main Roads uses Plannerly Verify to check supply-chain model data against defined information requirements, giving the team more certainty that model deliverables contain the information they expect.

    It highlights the need for due diligence when pulling all of the pieces of the puzzle together.
    Bryan McSweeney, Manager - Special Projects · TMR
    • Government
    • Verify
    • Model Checking

See all case studiesOwners, design teams, contractors, consultants and educators - filter them by your kind of organisation.

Questions

OIR, PIR and AIR questions, answered

What is an OIR?
Organisational information requirements: the information an organisation needs to meet its goals - running the business, managing its assets, meeting regulation. It's set once by the appointing party and shapes every project's requirements. The OIR lesson explains it; ISO 19650-1 defines it.
What is a PIR?
Project information requirements: the information needed to make the key decisions on one project, stage by stage - often written as plain-language questions. The PIR lesson, and the PIR slides from our free training.
What is an AIR?
Asset information requirements: the information needed to operate and maintain each asset after handover - which assets, what you need to know about each, and in what form. It feeds the asset information model. Create an AIR in Plannerly shows it end to end.
How do OIR, PIR, AIR and EIR fit together?
The OIR says what the organisation needs; the PIR and AIR turn that into what this project and each asset need; the EIR asks a particular appointed party for its share. Every EIR line should trace back up the chain. Start the last step with the EIR template, and see the whole chain on the information requirements use case.
Who writes the OIR, PIR and AIR?
The appointing party - the client - usually with its information manager or a consultant. Contractors and designers read them to understand what the client really needs, which helps when writing the BEP. The UK BIM Framework guidance covers who does what.
Do I need all of them on every project?
Write the OIR once for the organisation and reuse it. Each project needs its own PIR, and an AIR wherever you'll operate what's built. Keeping them as templates means each new project starts from your standard - make your company standard.
Is there a free AIR template?
Yes. The AIR, OIR and PIR templates are in the Library in Plannerly Docs, free on every plan, and the AIR can also be built as a structured list in Scope that models are checked against. The download on this page adds the slides from our free training and an example requirements sheet. Start free.

Related templates

Templates that go with the OIR, PIR and AIR

EIR template

Exchange information requirements: what each appointed party must deliver, to what level, by when and how it will be checked.

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BIM execution plan (BEP) template

The pre- and post-appointment BEP with every section ISO 19650 expects, an owner on each, and the BEP slides from our free training.

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MIDP template

Every task team's deliverables in one master information delivery plan: what, who, when and to what level, agreed and kept current.

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Responsibility matrix (RACI) template

One accountable team for every deliverable, agreed and signed, for the high-level and the detailed responsibility matrix.

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Your next job

Next, turn the requirements into checks the supply chain can run

The OIR, PIR and AIR say what you need. The information requirements use case shows the rest: requirements as a list, passed down in the EIR, exported as IDS and checked against the models - with Episode 3 on information requirements and AI.

  1. Write the OIR, PIR and AIR (done)
  2. Set the requirements (next)
  3. Check the models
See how to set the requirements

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