<p>Infrastructure plays a pivotal role in driving a country’s economic growth by providing essential resources such as food, water, and transportation. Managing infrastructure assets entails various tasks such as operations, maintenance, resource allocation, budgeting, risk assessment, policy creation, evaluation, performance tracking, and planning. Utilizing modern infrastructure management tools ensures the optimal performance of infrastructure assets, thereby increasing the likelihood of project success. Although successful infrastructure projects offer a competitive advantage and value, they may strain natural resources and compromise sustainability. Therefore, to promote sustainable infrastructure development, a study proposed a methodology that performs multistage integration of geographical information systems (GIS) and building information modelling (BIM). In the initial stage of integration, GIS analysis was conducted to analyse the study area, and the acquired data were utilized as an input in the creation of a comprehensive BIM. In the second stage of integration, a database was created by incorporating resource schedule rates to ease implementation and assess the feasibility of the proposed infrastructure developments across multiple urban locations. The methodology was validated in the Jaipur Municipality region by planning and analysing a communal rainwater harvesting system (RwHs) as an important part of the water infrastructure. The implementation revealed that communal RwHs serve as economical and environmentally sustainable water resources in urban areas by mitigating the risks of flash flooding. The methodology paves the way to integrate multiple tools for developing project-specific BIM dimensions for infrastructure projects starting from 2 to 8D by incorporating numerous social, environmental, and economical parameters.</p> Graphical Abstract <p></p>