Road Map to BIM Use for Infrastructure Domains: Identifying and Contextualizing Variables of Infrastructure Projects

Abstract

Nowadays, construction activities and projects are becoming much more challenging to manage.Being involve with different stakeholders is a difficult task and information and communication technology (ICT) has been addressed as a solution. On the other hand, Building Information Modeling (BIM) has already taken first steps towards this big revolution and gained a place in the sector. By inspiration from modality of BIM, there can be an adoption to other sub-branch of construction industry such as infrastructure domain. Since BIM has proven benefits in buildings, infrastructure projects might gain similar advantages through proper implementation. The authors of this paper are suggesting the use of a new describing for the purpose of BIM adoption for infrastructure projects, namely; Infrastructure Building Information Modeling (I-BIM). The main aim of conducting this research is to identify and prove the lack of using BIM for infrastructure projects.Within this context, questionnaire survey designed and distributed among 187 participants. These respondents were mostly located at United States of America and Turkey. As a finding of this research, authors clarify the preponderance and impediment components in the path of I-BIM utilization and discuss five main categories to clustered selected 26 variables as benefit or barrier of I-BIM.

Road modelling for infrastructure management – the efficient use of geographic information systems

“…The current trend in this field is the development and standardisation of BIM for infrastructure, primarily driven by specialists in architecture and civil engineering who have recognized the benefits of using these tools in managing building projects. Consequently, numerous government transport bodies are now crafting roadmaps for the implementation of infrastructure BIM (Ghasemzadeh et al, 2022;Borrmann et al, 2021). However, this BIM-centric approach proves sufficient for managing buildings but falls short when it comes to linear infrastructures (Garramone et al, 2020).…”

“…Many countries in Europe and North America have also developed road maps to outline the digitalisation of transport structures (Borrmann et al, 2021). While the deployment of BIM for infrastructure is useful for managing structures such as buildings, its deployment for transport infrastructure remains complex due to several barriers (Ghasemzadeh et al, 2022). However, Garramone et al (2020) demonstrated that the integration of GIS and BIM could benefit the management of infrastructure such as roads.…”