Factors affecting BIM application in China: a social network model

Tai, Shuangliang; Zhang, Yao; Li, Ting

doi:10.1108/jedt-12-2019-0330

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“…Other local factors also affect BIM implementation. For example, employees in China view BIM as an innovation that is poorly defined (Tai et al , 2020). In Malaysia, BIM is reported to increase cost and time from reduced construction productivity (Ibrahim et al , 2019; Othman et al , 2020).…”

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Factors affecting BIM implementation in post-conflict low-income economies: the case of Afghanistan

Al-Mohammad

Haron

Aloko

et al. 2021

JEDT

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Purpose Rejecting building information modeling (BIM) can negatively impact the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) industries. While BIM is trending globally, its implementation in post-conflict low-income economies is still limited. The purpose of this paper is to identify the critical factors for implementing BIM in a post-conflict low-income economy, using Afghanistan as a case study. Design/methodology/approach This study identifies potential affecting factors for BIM implementation through reviewing existing literature and interviewing AEC professionals in Afghanistan. Then, the factors are inserted into a questionnaire survey and disseminated with Afghanistan’s AEC practitioners. The collected data was analyzed to determine the critical factors. Also, the underlying relationships between the critical factors were established through factor analysis. Findings A total of 11 critical factors are affecting BIM implementation in Afghanistan. From those, nine factors can be grouped into the following three components: technological, environmental and organizational. Two factors, “cost-benefit of implementing BIM” and “market demand for BIM,” are recurring in low- and middle-income economies. Conversely, the “presence of appropriate projects to implement BIM” is the unique critical factor for Afghanistan that might affect other post-conflict low-income economies. Originality/value This study focuses on affecting factors for BIM implementation in post-conflict low-income economies, using Afghanistan as a reference rather than other types of economies that have been widely studied.

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Factors affecting BIM implementation in post-conflict low-income economies: the case of Afghanistan

Al-Mohammad

Haron

Aloko

et al. 2021

JEDT

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“…The analysis results of centrality indicate that the degree and closeness centrality of most nodes increased after BIM use. Pryke [ 64 ] and Tai et al [ 69 ] noted that the greater the degree of centrality, the more the other nodes connected to this node, indicating the higher the importance of this node. Moreover, the greater the closeness centrality of a node, the closer it is to others.…”

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Impacts of building information modelling (BIM) on communication network of the construction project: A social capital perspective

Huang

Chen

et al. 2022

PLoS ONE

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Building information modelling (BIM) is considered to be significant for organisational communication in construction projects. However, the role of BIM has not been fully shown in practice. To this end, this study examined the impact of BIM on communication network from inter- and intra- organisational relationships in the construction project. First, the structures of the communication networks before and after the use of BIM in a project in China were determined based on the social capital perspective. Then, the social network analysis was adopted to measure the changes in network metrics (i.e., number of ties, density, centrality, centralisation, and clique). Results shows that the connections among nodes are denser, and all the values of the network centralisation decrease after BIM application compared with the situation before BIM use. Nevertheless, results also shows that some construction project participants, who originally have interaction and communication needs, remain unable to establish effective connections among one another even after BIM use. Accordingly, some suggestions were proposed to solve the issues and deficiencies. This research contributes to (a) the state of knowledge by proposing social capital perspective that can identify inter- and intra-organizational relationships of the construction project from social interaction and common cognition to build communication network, and (b) the state of practice by identifying conditions and proposing strategies for strengthening organisational communication and collaboration in BIM-enabled network relationships.

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“…Culture is a complex whole, customs, and other abilities, as well as habits acquired by humans as those which contain science, belief, art, morality, law, members of society (Ranjabar, 2006). Culture orientation is one of the critical success factors in implementing BIM (Amuda-Yusof, 2017;Tai et al, 2020;Chen et al, 2018) and job performance (Javeria et al, 2015). The culture orientation aspect provides a basis in explaining the most significant factors that industry stakeholders should focus their attention on for a successful implementation of BIM.…”

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“…ICT has introduced BIM as a tool to manage construction projects effectively (Sundaraj, 2006). It was created as a result of integrating ICT in the construction industry processes (Roslan et al, 2019;Tai et al, 2020). This leads to the hypothesis of; H5: ICT utilization is positively related to the job performance.…”

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Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Job Performance: An Empirical Analysis in Public Sector Project Management

Mahmood¹,

ZaharI²,

Zainuri³

et al. 2022

IJARBSS

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The construction sector often faces various problems especially related to time, rising costs, project delays, waste and errors that can hinder the economic development. In order to overcome the problems, application of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in construction project is actively implemented in improving work efficiency and performance among industry practitioners especially in developed countries. Nonetheless, the ability of BIM towards highlighting its productivity and performance cannot be seen in the construction industry in Malaysia and faces several challenges that affected the job performance. Therefore, this study examines the relationship between various critical success factors and job performance among professionals who have used BIM applications in construction of project management. The stratified sampling method with the population of 345 professionals who practice the use of BIM applications in construction project management are applied in the study. The total population was collected from a preliminary study of the number of pre-contract stages in PWDs that had implemented BIM. Two models were constructed to be analyzed for multiple regression analysis. Findings revealed that four factors (collaborative synergy, ICT utilization, commitment and knowledge, culture orientation) have a significant positive relationship with job performance. While, external factor (collaborative synergy) has the most significant influence on job performance among those involved with the use of BIM applications. The findings of the study also have highlighted two major weaknesses that limit the effectiveness of the use of BIM applications are related to digital skills among staff and lack of support from management. These elements of weaknesses are seen to have affected the work performance in Malaysian construction sector. In the future research, to get more comprehensive view it is suggested several other factors especially external factors such as government policy and legislation, BIM guidelines and standards are to be considered in the study.

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Factors affecting BIM application in China: a social network model

Cited by 18 publications

References 30 publications

Factors affecting BIM implementation in post-conflict low-income economies: the case of Afghanistan

Factors affecting BIM implementation in post-conflict low-income economies: the case of Afghanistan

Impacts of building information modelling (BIM) on communication network of the construction project: A social capital perspective

Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Job Performance: An Empirical Analysis in Public Sector Project Management

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