In spite of the upcoming BIM based work paradigm and related technologies in the AEC sector traditional semi- and unstructured documents, like formwork or reinforcement drawings, will remain an essential part of the overall project information resources. Such kind of documents are still the basis of the daily work in construction projects and are, in contrast to a BIM, valid as mandatory objects of agreement and integral parts of contracts. Therefore document management will remain a crucial part of the overall project management. Based on the fact that in the frames of practical projects traditional documents will coexist together with model-based building information the existing technological separation between those different worlds of information is counterproductive and out-of-time since it may cause information losses, inconsistent information resources and hinders an adequate and project wide adoption of BIM technologies. The aim of this work is to develop a practical method that allows for the use of IFC building information models within a database-driven project management environment to make model-based building information available for project and document management purposes. The proposed method will establish an integrated overall project information resource constituted by a persistent linkage between elements of the building model and the associated documents.