Towards Enhancing Building Information Modeling Implementation in the Egyptian AEC Industry

Abstract

Since the expression "Building Information Modeling" (BIM) was initially presented in the Engineering and Construction AEC industry in the most recent decade; it has changed numerous parts of the design, construction, and operation of a building. BIM is a middleware connector that represents the advancement and utilization of PC.
 BIM has various frameworks which have been conducted by the pioneers in the BIM industry to enhance the BIM process. There is a study of the reflection of those frameworks on the Egyptian AEC industry to overcome the threats that prevent Egypt from applying BIM technology more broadly.
 In addition, a comparison is conducted between the successful countries which implemented BIM in their projects and managed to enhance their adoption by examining the local challenges and targets. The countries then made strategies and standards to overcome the aforementioned obstacles. Furthermore, successful actions were applied that can match with the Egyptian industrial requirements.
 This paper is expected to define the challenges which are facing the Egyptian industry
 to apply BIM and the potential capabilities of solving those problems. To acquire the
 vital information to carry on this paper, a questionnaire was created and distributed in
 the AEC community. The reason for the study was to see how experts consider BIM
 as a device in the fields of design and construction in general and in the Egyptian
 industry particularly.
 The aim of this paper is to propose a framework through several case studies which
 are discussed, analyzed and compared. The purpose of the analysis is to explore the
 importance of using BIM. Additionally, exploring the effect of different parameters on
 implementing BIM helped significantly during the process. It starts with proposing its
 framework with evaluating matrix that contains attributes to measure its success,
 moreover, it serves as a great help to the Egyptian companies that make real business
 decisions about enhancing BIM implementation through this framework.

CMBAS Tool for Assessing BIM Adoption Status in Construction Markets: Application for Egypt

“…Furthermore, different adoption and maturity models were designed to measure BIM maturity at the project and organizational levels. Examples for these models are seen in the efforts of [46,48,50,[56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67]. However, rare studies were conducted to assess BIM maturity on the level of countries' construction markets [6].…”

“…Concerning the applicable papers, the work of However, for survey papers exploring BIM implementation in Egypt, there existed six sources [2,9,31,33,[90][91][92]. However, each survey focused on certain areas, lacking to reflect the overall image of BIM status in the Egyptian construction industry.…”

“…Step Definition Criteria Set in This Research Around 65 resources were concluded after conducting the systematic literature review method's phases (some of these resources are [2,5,8,9,14,16,21,22,[24][25][26]29,30,33,69,91,[99][100][101][102]). When studying these resources, it was found that different surveys were conducted worldwide to assess construction markets' status; however, there existed a great variation between these surveys: some measured fourteen areas while others only measured two or three areas.…”