In typical practice, lighting designers are responsible for defining design intent and specifying lighting and control technology that they believe will deliver that intent. However, designers often sacrifice control over what products actually get installed or discover a gap between expected and actual product performance that limits their ability to control characteristics of the finished environment. This presentation examines how digital workflows can deliver additional measures of validation, accountability, and control into the design-bid-build process. Attendees will learn how the use of standard practice tools like Autodesk Revit can be extended to capture more design intent, how contract language can be modified to support the delivery of BIM models, how software applications can leverage BIM models to automate design and create performance expectations that can be verified, and how emerging standards are making it easier to develop such applications.