Challenges when implementing BIM for industry change

Vass, Susanna; Gustavsson, Tina Kärrbom

doi:10.1080/01446193.2017.1314519

Cited by 85 publications

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“…This is in line with the current BIM hype in the construction industry (Fox 2014;Dainty et al 2015). Much of the contemporary BIM research tends to promote rational and positivistic perspectives of BIM, often focused on its revolutionary promises for increased efficiency (Miettinen and Paavola 2014;Dainty et al 2015;Yalcinkaya and Singh 2015;Vass and Gustavsson 2017). Other remedies for the industry such as total quality management (TQM) (continuous improvement and quality control principles), LC, and partnering (supply chain alliancing) did not have the same industry-wide influence on industry discourse as BIM (Green 2011).…”

Section: Smes and Bimmentioning

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Lean construction and BIM in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in construction: a systematic literature review

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Lean construction (LC) and building information modeling (BIM) are two of the prominent concepts challenging the traditional practices in construction management. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) often constitute the largest group in construction supply chains. Increasing BIM and LC adoption amongst SMEs is a key condition for achieving the transformation of the construction industry through BIM and LC. The paper presents a systematic literature review of the adoption of (i) LC, (ii) BIM, and (iii) both LC and BIM in SMEs to evaluate the current literature, and 114 papers were included in the review. The bibliographic and content characteristics of the literature were discussed in detail. It was found that despite the importance of SMEs, the current LC and BIM literature falls short in terms of both number of publications and content of publications. The paper concludes with some generic suggestions for future research and action.

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Section: Smes and Bimmentioning

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Lean construction and BIM in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in construction: a systematic literature review

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“…However, a higher level of BIM implementation does not secure a better result, in particular for small firms (Dainty et al, 2017). Although BIM implementation level may be requested within the contract, especially for public projects (Vass et al, 2017), it is not suggested to implement BIM at the highest level across all the projects.…”

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“…The case study reported by Arayici et al (2011) illustrates that a bottom-up implementation approach has advantages in engaging project participants. In addition, Vass et al (2017) believe that a bottom-up approach could be more effective to solve intra-organisational challenges. The results of this study encourage decision-makers to initiate a bottom-up implementation approach, in particular for those projects without contractual requirements.…”

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Forecasting the net costs to organisations of Building Information Modelling (BIM) implementation at different levels of development (LOD)

Hong¹,

Hammad²,

Akbarnezhad³

2019

ITcon

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Numerous frameworks and tools have been proposed in the literature to assess the performance of BIM implementation in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC). However, there is yet a lack of ex-ante evaluation methods that forecast BIM implementation costs. This study aims to propose an ex-ante evaluation method to forecast the net costs of BIM implementation at different Level of Development (LOD). The proposed method is expected to assist decision makers to find the most cost-saving LOD when investing resources for implementing BIM, from an organisational perspective. The proposed method relies on an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for each type of implementation costs and benefits. The findings suggest that decision makers need to evaluate an organisation’s competency and their implemented BIM applications when choosing the BIM implementation level of BIM. Furthermore, the results show that a higher BIM implementation level does not often secure more benefits. Over 30 features were included in the ANNs with results indicating the possibility of expanding the feature set to obtain more accurate results.

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“…A third example, which gain increased attention in construction project management research and practice, and which the construction industry has in common with most other industries and organizational settings, is adaption to digitalisation. Implementing Building Information Modeling (BIM) and adjusting business models to new digital technology challenge norms and established ways of working in construction (Gilkingson et al 2015, Bosch-Sijtsema et al 2017, Vass and Karrbom Gustavsson 2017.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Liminal roles in construction project practice: exploring change through the roles of partnering manager, building logistic specialist and BIM coordinator

Gustavsson

2018

Construction Management and Economics

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Industries have to adapt to changes in external environment. This adaption includes the development of new professional roles that challenge established structures, roles and communities of practice. In order to better understand the unfolding of construction project practice in an increasingly changeful world new professional roles are explored as liminal roles. The studied professional roles are partnering manager, building logistic specialist and BIM coordinator. Liminality is used as framework to understand descriptions of liminal experiences when negotiating boundary interfaces in construction project practice. Findings are both theoretical and practical and suggest that new professional roles practice multi-liminal work and acknowledge tensions that pose challenges for liminal roles to act as change agents.

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Challenges when implementing BIM for industry change

Cited by 85 publications

References 31 publications

Lean construction and BIM in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in construction: a systematic literature review

Lean construction and BIM in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in construction: a systematic literature review

Forecasting the net costs to organisations of Building Information Modelling (BIM) implementation at different levels of development (LOD)

Liminal roles in construction project practice: exploring change through the roles of partnering manager, building logistic specialist and BIM coordinator

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