scholarly journals Exploring the Barriers and Driving Factors in Implementing Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the Malaysian Construction Industry: A Preliminary Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahrizan Zakari ◽  
Nasly Mohamed Ali Ali ◽  
Ahmad Tarmizi Haron ◽  
Amanda Marshall Ponting ◽  
Zuhairi Abd. Hamid
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Driving Factors ◽  
Building Information Modelling ◽  
Information Modelling ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Many

In Malaysia, Building Information Modelling (BIM) has recently gained attraction from construction players and some of them have applied it to several projects. By utilising the BIM process, the construction players have the opportunity to plan, coordinate and design in an integrated approach. This is one of the many benefits that they could gain and resulting in increased productivity. Despite these benefits, the implementation of BIM in the Malaysian construction industry is still lagging behind Singapore, for instance. Thus, it warrants a study such as the present to determine what are the actual barriers that hamper its implementation and what are the driving factors that could enhance its pace of implementation in the Malaysian construction industry. In this study, a questionnaire survey based on Convenience Sampling Method was carried out to gather the possible barriers and driving factors for BIM implementation among the Malaysian construction players. Additionally, Relative Importance Indices (RII) were used to analyse the data obtained and to identify those barriers and driving factors for the implementation of BIM in this country. Consequently, results of this study revealed that the main barriers for implementing the BIM are: 1) Lack of knowledge about BIM, 2) Reluctance and/or no insistence shown by the Malaysian construction industry players (Clients, Contractors and Consultants alike) on the use or implementation of BIM. The driving factors, on the other hand, that could lead to the speeding up of the implementation of BIM are: 1) Support and enforcing the implementation of BIM by the Government, 2) promote BIM training program and 3) Initiatives of senior management of the related industry players. In conclusion, for successful wide spread application of BIM in Malaysia, a good push from the government alone is far from enough. All other construction industry players mentioned must assume their roles well in promoting the use of BIM in their construction projects.

scholarly journals Challenges of Building Information Modelling (BIM) from the Malaysian Architect’s Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 266 ◽  
pp. 05003
Author(s):  
Khairool Aizat Ahmad Jamal ◽  
Mohammad Fadhil Mohammad ◽  
Norfashiha Hashim ◽  
Mohamed Rizal Mohamed ◽  
Mohd Adib Ramli
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Building Information Modelling ◽  
Information Modelling ◽  
Current State ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
The People ◽  
Key Players ◽  
Building Information ◽  
The Government

Malaysia is experiencing high economic growth which requires the construction industry to fulfill development demands. Building Information Modelling (BIM) had been widely publicized by the government in order to increase the industry’s productivity by instigating numerous initiatives aimed to spearhead its progression. In contrast with the aspiration, architects as key players of construction industry are still facing issues in adopting BIM into practice. Previous researches had broadly covered about BIM in construction industry, but few concentrations in specific to the local architect thus imposing gap of knowledge. In addressing the issues, the research aim to probe the current state of BIM implementation, primarily on the challenges that hinders its adoption. The BIM factors which covers people, process, policy and technology were derived and investigated through the use of 322 questionnaires distributed to architects at management and operational level. The study revealed the key barriers that contributes towards the problem is within the people factor, where majority highlighted the lacked of skilled and experienced BIM workforce which contributes towards steep learning environment as well as high cost of applying BIM. Consequently, several key strategic solutions had been indicated through both external and internal factors in addressing the challenge of BIM. Results suggested that there is a need of further support from the industry’s professional bodies, development of legal instruments, BIM enforcement, specific BIM education as well as BIM R&D programs.

scholarly journals Integrating Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Sustainability to Greening Existing Building: Potentials in Malaysian Construction Industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Syamimi Zulkefli ◽  
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Faizul Azli Mohd-Rahim ◽  
Nurshuhada Zainon ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Building Information Modelling ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Information Modelling ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
Building Information ◽  
The Government ◽  
Costing Analysis

Apropos to numerous environmental issues highlighted globally and locally, Malaysia has now moving forward towards new agenda of greening the cities. A positive movement trend of new green building in the country can be seen as number of projects going into green rating application are increasing yearly. Nevertheless, sustainability impact is considered as significantly small since newly developed green building represent small percentage as compared to the existing non-green building. Therefore, the idea of greening the existing building through refurbishment emerged in order to achieve wider sustainability objectives. Apart from that, supported with recent evolvement of technology and digitalization in construction industry, in lieu with governments’ strategies to adopt Industry 4.0, Building Information Modelling (BIM) has also been acknowledged and used broadly as a solution to integrate and facilitate management of information throughout building lifecycles. Considering these two areas; sustainability and BIM are continuously gaining momentum these days, this paper attempts to explore BIM’s potentials as an enabler to help greening the existing non-green building. Literature review is conducted focus on reviewing BIM and sustainability present status in Malaysian construction industry, also their relationship including examining potential areas where BIM may contribute to enhance the buildings’ sustainability performances. Based on the reviews, there is a potential of bridging the two areas considering both has becoming a national construction industry agenda since the government released CITP2016-2020. To further concur the ideas, literature reviews has also proven that the ability of BIM to facilitate various functions has enable it to support several sustainability analyses such as energy, carbon emission, lighting, water, materials and waste, building and site, and costing analysis.

scholarly journals Towards Successful Social Collaboration in BIM-based Construction: A Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 266 ◽  
pp. 03007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Che Khairil Izam Che Ibrahim ◽  
Sheila Belayutham
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Collaborative Practice ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Building Information Modelling ◽  
Information Modelling ◽  
Organisational Context ◽  
Social Collaboration ◽  
Building Information

The existence of digital applications in construction industry has opened the floodgates to a better integration and collaboration. In particular, Building Information Modelling (BIM) provides construction stakeholders greater visualisation of project information and communications across multi-organisations. Despite the explicit benefits, the study on what it takes to drive the successfulness of social collaboration in BIM still remain elusive. This paper presents a review of the literature to identify the key elements of social collaboration in BIM-based construction projects. The review identified three key elements (i.e. foundational platform, organisational context and behavioural context) which together form the nexus for successful social collaborative practice. The findings in this study extend the collaboration literature in construction domain by providing deeper insights into the characterisation and importance of social collaboration in digital environment.

scholarly journals Integrating Building Information Modelling and Intelligent Contract to Payment Process Under Conventional Procurement in Malaysia

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-81
Author(s):  
Rozana Mohamed Salleh ◽  
Nur Emma Mustaffa ◽  
Nafisah Abdul Rahiman
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Building Information Modelling ◽  
Information Modelling ◽  
Project Completion ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Process Issue ◽  
To Receive

Conflict caused by payment issues are common in construction industry.  A lengthy payment process issue is a common phenomenon especially in public work projects, which commonly opt for conventional contracts.  Delay in payment process have caused many contractors not being able to receive payment within the stipulated time.  In turn, it may affect the contractor’s cash flow and eventually ended up causing delays in project completion. The effect of technological advances has brought significant changes to the construction industry, which is year after year becoming increasingly complex.  Therefore, in the era of technology and digital, there are many management systems which have been established and introduced amongst construction players for the convenience of managing and administering construction projects.  The introduction of Building Information Modelling (BIM) is to establish a centralised information system, which improves the collaboration, communication and integration between interdisciplines in construction industry.  The development of digital technology of Intelligent Contracts will bring great potential as an automate support system in BIM management process.  These combinations create possible solutions towards payment conflicts in the construction project, through integration of BIM and Intelligent Contracts that may help to reduce the unnecessary procedure and interference that prolong the payment process. The analysis revealed that the adoption of BIM and Intelligent Contracts attributes in payment process under conventional procurement could improve the efficiency and reduce the time by eliminating unnecessary procedure and third parties interference along the process.

scholarly journals Incorporation of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Malaysian Higher Education Institutions: A Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Seri Nanisa Sima Yusoff ◽  
Juliana Brahim ◽  
Zainidi Mat Yusoff
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
3D Modelling ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Building Information Modelling ◽  
Information Modelling ◽  
Building Information

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is initiated for the sake of managing construction projects effectively and efficiently. However, the adoption of BIM in Malaysian construction industry is still low because of lack of awareness among professionals and Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) undergraduates. This paper aims to evaluate the current adoption of BIM in syllabus among higher education institutions (HEIs). The methodology of this paper is based on literature review regarding BIM syllabus adopted in HEIs. The findings reveal that BIM in Malaysia is still lagging in practice and literature taught for academic aspects respectively compared to other developed countries such as United Kingdom and Lithuania. From the current adoption of BIM in Malaysian HEIs syllabus, it can be concluded that fully stand-alone BIM module in Malaysian HEIs is crucial which consequently hampering the production of high-quality BIM expertise that master in methodology and 3D modelling skills. Keywords: Building Information Modelling (BIM), Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC), Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)

EXPLORING BARRIERS IN IMPLEMENTING BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING: A PRELIMINARY STUDY

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghanim A. Bekr
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Building Information Modeling ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
University Curriculum ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University

This study involves with Building Information Modeling (BIM) and exploring the reasons behind the slow speed of implementing this method in the construction industry in developing countries in general and Jordan in specific. The aim of the research was achieved through a survey which considered 15 barrier factors and 13 driving factors. The study revealed that the level of BIM implementation in construction projects is generally low. In addition, the significant barriers affecting the adoption of BIM are lack of qualified staff to operate the software, difficulty learning BIM, the existing system fulfils the need, resistance to change and uncertainties concerning return on investment of BIM. Also, the study pointed out the most important factors that could help implementing BIM in the Jordanian construction industry. These are providing BIM training program, introducing BIM in the university curriculum and providing the efforts by the government to push implementation of BIM in their projects. Finally, the paper presented some recommendations if followed the level of (BIM) implementation in this country may be improved.

scholarly journals What is BIM? A Need for A Unique BIM Definition

2019 ◽  
Vol 266 ◽  
pp. 05005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dat Tien Doan ◽  
Ali Ghaffarianhoseini ◽  
Nicola Naismith ◽  
Tongrui Zhang ◽  
Attiq Ur Rehman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Model Building ◽  
Building Information Modelling ◽  
Information Modelling ◽  
Building Information ◽  
False Result ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
The Government ◽  
Building Information Management

Building Information Modelling (BIM) has rapidly developed in the construction industry recently; it is also considered as one of the core concepts in the Industry 4.0. However, BIM understanding is always seen as a significant problem for BIM implementation. Therefore, this paper aims to provide the insights into BIM awareness of the construction practitioners with the focus on the BIM definition in the New Zealand construction industry where BIM is still in its early stages. 22 interviews were conducted with 26 construction experts holding important positions in their companies and having at least eight years’ experience in the industry. The results indicated that BIM has a variety of meanings to the interviewees. Four different definitions including Building Information Model, Building Information Modelling, Building Information Management, and Software/Technology were identified which was considered inappropriate, the fallacies of definition, for the construction industry. Also, most of the construction practitioners are seen as not well-aware of BIM, especially the SMEs. Furthermore, the results also indicated that the BIM survey potentially provided a false result at least regarding the BIM adoption rate in the New Zealand construction industry, which urges the BIM survey host to clarify the BIM definition before conducting the survey. The results of this paper are hoped to alarm the government and construction organizations to have a unique BIM definition for BIM development in New Zealand to ensure the consistent understanding among the industry.

scholarly journals Building Information Modelling in Indonesia: Knowledge, Implementation and Barriers

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-217
Author(s):  
Andreas F Van Roy ◽  
Adrian Firdaus
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Building Information Modelling ◽  
Information Modelling ◽  
Knowledge Implementation ◽  
Transportation Service ◽  
Inadequate Information ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Building Information ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Government

This article aims to identify the status of construction industry practitioners in Indonesia in terms of their knowledge and current practices as well as the barriers for implementing Building Information Modelling (BIM). This study utilises a questionnaire survey, aimed at the construction industry practitioners in Indonesia. The result shows that BIM is still a novelty for the construction practitioners in Indonesia. This is backed with the finding that more than 60% of the respondents was not familiar with BIM terminology or did not have proper knowledge of BIM terminology. More than 70% of the respondents' projects have implemented BIM Level 1, mostly in transportation service, energy production and distribution, roads and bridges, and the building infrastructure category. The five highest ranks of barriers to BIM implementation are lack of BIM training, lack of BIM experience and capability, no client demand, high cost in software and hardware acquisition, and inadequate information technology (IT) facilities. The recommended strategy should be initiated by the government, by conducting a comprehensive familiarisation programme covering BIM knowledge, BIM advantages and BIM implementation in the industry. At the same time, the government should prepare regulations and standards as guidance to BIM implementation in Indonesia.

scholarly journals Preliminary Study of Changes in Work Practices of Quantity Surveyors in Building Information Modelling (BIM) Projects

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurul Sakina Mokhtar Azizi ◽  
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Tan Zi Yu ◽  
Zahirah Azizi ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Building Information Modelling ◽  
Information Modelling ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Practical Level ◽  
Game Changer

Building Information Modelling (BIM) has been a game changer for the construction industry in transforming how design and construction is delivered. While its introduction aims to increase efficiency in construction, it is unclear what practical changes are affected in the individual work practices of construction players. Many studies have explored the changes in design related work practices, but limited studies have explored the practical changes for quantity surveying (QS) work practices when working in BIM projects. This paper aims to examine the changes in QS work practices according to the RIBA plan of work. The objectives of this paper include i) to identify the positive changes in QS work practices and, ii) to identify the negative changes in QS work practices. Qualitative data were analyzed from the interviews of five Quantity Surveyors with BIM work experience. The analysis revealed that there are six positive changes and four negative changes in QS work practices when involved in BIM projects. The findings from this research can be used to understand the implications of BIM on QS work practices at a practical level and to elucidate the adjustments needed to cope with BIM-related changes.

scholarly journals Building Information Modelling (BIM) Initiatives for Malaysian Construction Industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-21
Author(s):  
Mashanim Mahazir ◽  
◽  
Puah Kar Ros ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Traditional Practice ◽  
Building Information Modelling ◽  
Information Modelling ◽  
Extensive Literature Review ◽  
Building Information

The construction industry believes that Building Information Modelling (BIM) are able to reduce the problem faced by the infrastructure world. Nowadays, the construction industry faced many problems due to dependency on the traditional practice. Therefore, the application of BIM in the construction industry will help the construction projects become more successful. Fourteen (14) papers were referred through extensive literature review and the study aims to discuss the benefits and barriers of using BIM in the construction industry. Furthermore, the strategic planning being implemented the BIM within the next 5 years in Malaysia also been discussed.

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