The Rise Of BIM in Malaysia And Its Impact Towards Quantity Surveying Practices

Abstract

Abstract. Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a new buzzword that is gaining a momentum within the construction industry in Malaysia, and worldwide. BIM is a way of working that involves the automation of the entire project team using a 4D model that can do many of the traditional fuctions of a Quatity Surveyor (QS). As BIM is removing more of the traditional work of QS, there are rising fears that it could threaten the viability of the QS professions especially for small firms that still rely on producing bills of quantities. This paper aims to review the challenges and opportunities gained from BIM advancement in QS profession, especially in Malaysia. Despite of serious cost and commercial challenges of BIM implementation, BIM will work wonder as a tool that will cut the amount of time QS have to spend on analysis and provides opportunities to direct QS talents towards being more efficient. This is resulting to better project coordination with a lot less conflict, a more sustainable building in the final instance and also throughout the process, as less time is spent on each stage.

Collaborative multidisciplinary learning: Quantity surveying students’ perspectives

“…The global construction industry is witnessing a move towards a more collaborative way of working with the growing awareness of, and implementation of, BIM – see Bryde et al (2013), Zainon et al (2016); Ghaffarianhoseini et al (2017), Vass and Gustavsson (2017) and Özorhon and Karaciğan (2020). Team learning, typical of multidisciplinary BIM education, has been seen as a way of achieving competence-based education, especially in vocational studies such as built environment disciplines.…”

A Quantitative Study on the Relationship of Building Information Modelling (BIM) Implementation on Job Performance in The Malaysian Public Projects.

“…In the aspect of BIM, adequate digital skills may improve the BIM implementation in construction projects where lack of training and appropriate skills may hinder BIM advancement [14]. The importance of skills in implementing BIM in the construction industry towards performance can also be seen in the study by [41] that discussed the challenges and opportunities gained from using this technology in the Malaysian construction industry. The study found that when the industry players were equipped with the skills and expertise, BIM can give a better job performance in systemizing the project coordination aspect, a more sustainable output, and reducing the time delivery process for preparing BQ, cost estimation, cost update, and tendering process.…”

“…In addition to that, the result of the research shows that the ICT utilization aspect has a significant relationship with job performance. This explains that improving the aspect of ICT facilities available in the organization can improve job performance among the staff involved [41]. This includes improving the understanding that BIM can save operation costs, strengthen the collaboration between stakeholders, increase the efficiency of works, reduce risk, and the existence of ICT support.…”

Evaluation of BIM Education for Quantity Surveying: A Review of Teaching Approaches

“…The implementation of BIM technology has emerged as of the application tools to meet the objectives of escalating productivities in a construction project [7]. BIM is known as a process that could accelerate the project design process 70% faster than conventional process [8].…”