A System Engineering Perspective to Knowledge Transfer: A Case Study Approach of BIM Adoption

Arayıcı, Yusuf; Coates, Paul M.

doi:10.5772/51052

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“…Besides, government BIM policies have a significantly positive effect on perceived usefulness. This is consistent with previous studies which revealed that the existence of government-led initiatives to promote BIM implementation within the industry is one of the critical success factors for extensive BIM adoption and diffusion [62,79]. On the one hand, government policies, such as subsidies, can directly reduce the BIM application costs, which in turn improve project benefits and attract more project owners to get involved in BIM adoption.…”

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Promoting Owners’ BIM Adoption Behaviors to Achieve Sustainable Project Management

2019

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Although building information modeling (BIM) has a promising future in the architecture, engineering and construction industry, its wider adoption and implementation is desired. Grounded with a technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework and the theory of technology acceptance model (TAM), this study extracted “social influence”, “organizational support”, “BIM technical features”, and “government BIM policies” as four key external antecedents—in reference to the particular BIM practices in China—and proposed a model to predict project owners’ BIM adoption behaviors. To test the proposed model, structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis was applied for configuration analyses on a sample of 188 project owners from the Chinese construction industry. Results show that BIM technical features, and government BIM policies have positive effects on perceived usefulness, but social influence and organizational support have no significant influence on perceived usefulness. Furthermore, both social influence and BIM technical features have positive effects on perceived ease of use, while organizational support and government BIM policies have no significant influence on perceived ease of use. Attitude plays a significant intermediary role among perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and behavior intention. Additionally, attitude significantly affects behavior intention, and behavior intention can also affect BIM adoption behavior. This study is the first attempt to investigate project owners’ behaviors toward BIM adoption and the findings are expected to provide a better understanding of the essential elements of project owners’ BIM adoption behaviors and guide industry practitioners in developing proper strategies to achieve more effective BIM implementation.

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Promoting Owners’ BIM Adoption Behaviors to Achieve Sustainable Project Management

2019

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“…Other than that, to move forward or transform into the new Industry 4.0 technologies requires a certain level of knowledge. Hence, the need for employee training and development [29], together with the increasing need for integration skills [30], since there are low technical competency of the construction workers on site; hence, there will be a huge challenge in order to create and develop new competencies to ensure the project organisation is optimised as well as to attract new talents to the workforce, such as employee with shared technical knowledge and integration experience as one of the main criteria. Moreover, in order to maintain a high implementation rate of robotics in construction, there must be enough supply of appropriate skilled operators to handle the machinery.…”

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Factors Influencing the Implementation of Technologies Behind Industry 4.0 in the Malaysian Construction Industry

2019

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Industry 4.0 is a concept which include Big Data and Analytics, Autonomous Robot, Simulation, System Integration, Internet of Things, Cyber Physical System, Cloud Computing, Additive Manufacturing and Augmented Reality. The makeover, not only completely change the way on how physical structures are designed, developed and preserved, but also how they are used in the future with applications of avant-garde technology. However there is a tendency that construction companies may be hesitant to invest in them. Industry 4.0 aims to motivate construction companies to adopt new technologies. Therefore, this paper aims to review on literature in identifying technologies that are used in line with Industry 4.0 as well as investigate the potential barriers faced and factors which influence the Industry 4.0 technologies implementation in the Malaysian construction industry. Relevant academic materials were reviewed thus the purpose of this paper is to present a literature review and critical analysis of the implementation of technologies behind Industry 4.0. Based on the results of the analysis, applications and uses, benefits, barriers and future needs are discussed. The results also reveal that the acceptance can help improves the image of the industry.

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“…Obstacles to the implementation of digital asset management Despite the plethora of beneficial implications attained through digitalised AECO practice, a number of recurring issues can hinder whole-scale implementation in practice, namely, imprecise BIM compliance definitions (Barlish and Sullivan, 2012;Succar et al, 2012;Alwan and Gledson, 2014;Smith, 2014); isolated software development (Eastman et al, 2011;Race, 2013); data interoperability (Becerik-Gerber et al, 2012;Ilter and Ergen, 2015); intellectual property (IP) and virtual property (VP) rights (Olatunji and Akanmu, 2014); and increased industry skill and training requirements (Atkin and Brooks, 2005;Arayici and Coates, 2012;Garber, 2014;Abrishami et al, 2015;Rahman et al, 2016). Notwithstanding the increasing prominence of BIM in academic literature, implementation in industry continues to prove a challenging endeavour (refer to Figure 2).…”

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“…The abundance of new functions and possibilities facilitated by digital modelling has advanced more rapidly than the required skills and understanding to fabricate the results; an issue not confined to the AECO sector (Garber, 2014). The consequence of rapidly advancing technological capabilities is that a fresh injection of suitably skilled professionals is required to deal with the myriad of prerequisite skills and competencies needed to effectively operate within interdisciplinary teams (Arayici and Coates, 2012;Abrishami et al, 2015;Rahman et al, 2016). Furthermore, as with the embracing of all new innovations, there will be a transitional period which demands an increased requirement for these new skills and the associated training (Atkin and Brooks, 2005).…”

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“…The Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Owner-operated (AECO) sector has traditionally been beset with issues surrounding stakeholder communication, process efficiencies and built asset performance during the operational phase of building occupancy (Arayici and Coates, 2012;Olatunji and Akanmu, 2014;Lindkvist, 2015;Pärn et al, 2016). However, the advent of digital modelling in recent years has presented significant opportunities to improve upon these persistent issues.…”

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Digitalising asset management: concomitant benefits and persistent challenges

Roberts

Pärn

Edwards

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IJBPA

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Purpose: Advancements in digital technologies have provided significant opportunities to improve the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Owner-operated (AECO) sector's performance through superior data management, streamlined processes and cooperative working practices. However, whilst academic literature widely espouses these benefits during the design and construction phases of development, research suggests that the operational phase of a building's lifecycle has yet to fully realise performance improvements available through the application of digital modelling technology. This paper synthesises extant digital modelling, asset management and emergent digital asset management literature, to report upon the beneficial implications of digitalised asset management and identify obstacles hampering its adoption in industry. Approach: A componential synthesis of future work reported upon in extant literature is organised into thematic categories that indicate potential research avenues and a trajectory for digital asset management research and practice. Findings: Themes identified include: i) imprecise BIM definitions; ii) isolated software development; iii) data interoperability; iv) intellectual property (IP) and virtual property (VP) rights; and vi) skills and training requirements. Notably, increased environmental performance also arose as a theme requiring further research but received considerably less academic coverage than the other obstacles identified. Originality/ value-The work presents a comprehensive review of digital technologies utilised within the AECO sector and as such provides utility to researchers, policy makers and practitioners to enhance their knowledge capabilities.

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A System Engineering Perspective to Knowledge Transfer: A Case Study Approach of BIM Adoption

Cited by 26 publications

References 9 publications

Promoting Owners’ BIM Adoption Behaviors to Achieve Sustainable Project Management

Promoting Owners’ BIM Adoption Behaviors to Achieve Sustainable Project Management

Factors Influencing the Implementation of Technologies Behind Industry 4.0 in the Malaysian Construction Industry

Digitalising asset management: concomitant benefits and persistent challenges

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