Journal of Information Technology in Construction
Journal of Information Technology in Construction
ITcon Vol. 17, pg. 75-92, http://www.itcon.org/2012/5
Building information modelling (BIM) implementation and remote construction projects: Issues, Challenges and Critiques
| published: | May 2012 | |
| editor(s): | Egbu C., Sidawi B. | |
| authors: | Yusuf Arayici The School of the Built Environment, The College of Science and Technology, The University of Salford, Greater Manchester, UK y.arayici@salford.ac.uk Charles Egbu The School of the Built Environment, The College of Science and Technology, The University of Salford, Greater Manchester, UK c.o.egbu@salford.ac.uk Paul Coates The School of the Built Environment, The College of Science and Technology, The University of Salford, Greater Manchester, UK s.p.coates@edu.salford.ac.uk | |
| summary: | The construction industry has been facing a paradigm shift to (i) increase productivity, efficiency, infrastructure value; quality and sustainability (ii) reduce lifecycle costs, lead times and duplications via effective collaboration and communication of stakeholders in construction projects. This paradigm shift is becoming more critical with remote construction projects, which reveals unique and even more complicated challenging problems in relation to communication and management due to the remoteness of the construction sites. On the other hand, Building Informational Modelling (BIM) is offered by some as the panacea to addressing the interdisciplinary inefficiencies in construction projects. Although in many cases the adoption of BIM has numerous potential benefits, it also raises interesting challenges with regards to how BIM integrates the business processes of individual practices. This paper aims to show how BIM adoption for an architectural company helps to mitigate the management and communication problems in remote construction project. The paper adopts a case study methodology, which is a UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project of BIM adoption between the University of Salford, UK and John McCall Architects (JMA), in which the BIM use between the architectural company and the main contractor for a remote construction project is elaborated and justified. Research showed that the key management and communication problems such as poor quality of construction works, unavailability of materials, and ineffective planning and scheduling can largely be mitigated by adopting BIM at the design stage. | |
| keywords: | Building Information Modelling, Communication, Remote Construction Projects | |
| full text: | (PDF file, 1.49 MB) | |
| citation: | Yusuf Arayici, Charles Egbu, Paul Coates (2012). Building information modelling (BIM) implementation and remote construction projects: Issues, Challenges and Critiques, ITcon Vol. 17, Special issue Management of remote construction sites and the role of IT Systems, pg. 75-92, https://www.itcon.org/2012/5 |