In summary, engineers involved in the current risk assessment
processes face the challenges of (1) not being able to systematically
identify what information is stored in what documents, (2) information
unavailability, scattered and document-based storage of
available information, and (3) collaborative and collective understanding
of which information is necessary. Building information
models (BIMs) have been widely used to solve the very same
problems observed with the storage and exchange of information
between various stakeholders in the architectural/construction/
engineering and facilities management (AEC/FM) domain. The
BIMs enable digital and integrated storage and transfer of a construction
project’s whole life-cycle information and provide a
single shared repository for such information. Such integrated information
repositories can remedy the problems observed in the
risk assessment of embankment dams, once the information that
needs to be represented in such repositories is identified. The
research presented here focused on the identification of the information
requirements for engineering disciplines for dam risk assessment
as a foundational step toward the development of an
integrated information model for the risk assessment of embankment
dams.