Integration of cloud information systems into the management of design, construction and operation of real estate objects

Abstract

The mandatory use of building information modelling has shifted the choice of an integration environment architecture from the domain of functional preference to that of economic justification, which industry studies address less thoroughly than the technological side. Managing a real estate object throughout its life cycle requires end-to-end data transfer between design, construction and operation, yet the fragmentation of software environments generates losses from rework, downtime and repeated data entry. Using a model development company that simultaneously runs six residential construction projects involving about 180 counterparties, the total cost of ownership and the net discounted effect were computed for local, cloud and hybrid architectures of a common data environment over the 2025-2031 horizon at a discount rate of 19,5%. The cloud architecture showed the lowest discounted cost of ownership (35,53 million roubles) and the highest net discounted effect (48,37 million roubles), whereas the local variant turned negative. The bulk of the effect (57,9%) is concentrated at the construction stage; the result is most sensitive to the scale of avoidable losses (elasticity 1.73), and the threshold capture coefficient equals 0.373. Simulation recorded a positive effect in 99,3% of runs. Economic value is created by the end-to-end traceability of data across stages, and the measure of integration payback is the share of avoidable losses that the environment propagates to all dependent representations.