Building information modelling: the tide is turning

Gilkinson, Norman; Raju, Pathmeswaran; Kiviniemi, Arto; Chapman, Craig

doi:10.1680/stbu.12.00045

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“…This is further exacerbated by the recent national global economic downturn due to the widespread recession stemming from international sanctions. The findings were in line with Gilkinson et al (2015) stating that construction companies' move towards the adoption of BIM is mainly driven by their need to remain competitive in the market. It is widely believed that acquiring BIM will give companies a competitive advantage in the market (Rogers et al, 2015a).…”

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confidence: 86%

Building Information Modeling (BIM) in Iran: An Exploratory Study

Hosseini¹,

Azari²,

Tivendale³

et al. 2016

EPPM-Journal

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BIM has received considerable attention from academics and innovative construction companies in recent years within the Iranian context. However, there is a conspicuous lack of studies, which give a picture of the current state of BIM in Iran. To address this gap in the body of the knowledge, this study intends to present an account on the current state of BIM with a focus on barriers and drivers associated with its adoption in Iran based on the perceptions of Iranian construction practitioners. Drawing upon a questionnaire survey completed by 44 construction practitioners and through deploying data visualization alongside statistical analyses, it came to light that industry practitioners in Iran are inexperienced as to BIM's use and the level of BIM implementation in the country is at the lowest level of BIM maturity. That is, 29.5% of construction companies are involved in some level of BIM adoption whereas 56.8% have had no exposure to BIM and 36.4% do not even have any plans to adopt BIM in the near future. The findings also showed that the highest ranked barriers to adoption of BIM in Iran are almost entirely associated with the structure of the Iranian market, the nature of the construction industry and the predominant business environment in the country as well as lack of attention by policy makers and the government. On the other hand, major drivers were found to be associated with monetary gains and enhancing competitiveness in the market. The clear message is that widespread adoption of BIM in Iran will not occur in the absence of a supportive regulatory environment and financial assistance by policy makers. The paper contributes to the field by sharing the preliminary findings of the first study conducted on BIM adoption in Iran, which provides a sound basis for further inquiries on the topic.

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Section: Driverssupporting

confidence: 86%

Building Information Modeling (BIM) in Iran: An Exploratory Study

Hosseini¹,

Azari²,

Tivendale³

et al. 2016

EPPM-Journal

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“…As an information technology revolution in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been widely applied in collaborative design to improve the quality and productivity of building projects (Gilkinson, Kiviniemi, Raju, & Chapman, 2015;Juan, Lai, & Shih, 2017). During collaborative design, the information is continuously created, accumulated, and exchanged between heterogeneous software tools.…”

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confidence: 99%

Exchange Requirement-Based Delivery Method of Structural Design Information for Collaborative Design Using Industry Foundation Classes

Lai

Zhou²,

Deng

2019

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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In Architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) collaboration, exchange requirements (ERs) vary in different projects with different platforms. In order to ensure the completeness and accuracy of data sharing and exchange for structural engineering in collaborative design, an ER-based delivery method was proposed to improve the delivery of structural design information. First, a process map of structural design was developed based on Information Delivery Manual (IDM). Within this process map, an ER Matrix of structural design was proposed to define information required by other disciplines at different stages. This matrix was composed of a set of required structural objects and their attributes, which were mapped to related Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) data. The mapping between the ER Matrix and IFC-based structural model data was implemented by an exchange model generation algorithm. Furthermore, a delivery tool was developed to define the ER Matrix in two ways, including user interface and XML-based language. A practical project was used to illustrate the utility of the proposed method. The results show that the proposed method using IFC is beneficial for structural information delivery.

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“…This translates into a drafting centric workflow as the bulk of information is developed during the construction documentation phase (Gilkinson et al, 2015). Built assets need to be optimized for the operational phase as this phase is by far the longest and most resource intensive phase (Lee et al, 2012;Jensen et al, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

Hierarchy based information requirements for sustainable operations of buildings in Qatar

Rodriguez-Trejo

Ahmad

Hafeez

et al. 2017

Sustainable Cities and Society

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Information flows in construction projects are generally focussed on the needs of the design and construction phases. This creates disruption of workflows across the project stages and in particular with the information handover to the operation stage. The adherence to client requirements for the operation phase of buildings becomes very challenging. A structured information delivery enabled by BIM protocols, established at the project's inception phase, can help: 1. prevent information loss during the project development; 2. ensure the coordinated delivery of the clients' requirements as stated at the pre-design stage, and 3. anticipate the impact of client decisions at early project stages on the operational performance of buildings. This research presents a methodology and a decision support system to help obtaining, categorizing and trading off sustainability and facility management values using subjective driven priorities from top-level management. The decision support system will assist, within digitally enabled projects, in translating these priorities into objective parameters and information categories. These can be subsequently included within the project tender and bidders' BIM Execution Plans. The tool will also help to monitor the performance of the project design with the national sustainability and the client targets as the project progresses. The proposed tool is presented within the context of Qatar but it could be applied in other countries.

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Building information modelling: the tide is turning

Cited by 19 publications

References 11 publications

Building Information Modeling (BIM) in Iran: An Exploratory Study

Building Information Modeling (BIM) in Iran: An Exploratory Study

Exchange Requirement-Based Delivery Method of Structural Design Information for Collaborative Design Using Industry Foundation Classes

Hierarchy based information requirements for sustainable operations of buildings in Qatar

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