In recent years, Brazilian government issued a federal decree establishing the National Dissemination Strategy for Building Information Modelling (BIM) with the expectation that BIM will be disseminated in public works by 2028. In addition to this, the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT) has set up a committee to generate and disseminate standardization involving the various aspects of BIM implementation. In this scenario, the objective of this paper is to investigate the BIM implementation process in a Brazilian government infrastructure studied company, and to understand how the Design as well the Consultant Firms are facing the new demands about BIM. An exploratory research through qualitative and quantitative approaches was carried out by a case study. The qualitative approach was based on a set of interviews applied with Technical Professionals and the company´s board that work at the studied company. The quantitative approach was held through an online survey questionnaire applied to the designer´s base that work with the studied company. The analysis was also based on five different guides: BIM Project Execution Planning Guide, RICS Guide, CBIC Guide, EUBIM Handbook and European Construction Sector Observatory. As a result, the paper aims to deliver a set of practical recommendations in order to help the studied company define the demands for their designer´s base so that bidding occur in the best possible way, and also to better its BIM implementation process.

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Given the importance of public infrastructure projects to the civil construction and considering the Brazilian context, the aim of this paper is to improve the management efficiency concerning project management methods applied to this kind of construction project. Using a multiple case study approach, the research has examined two large infrastructure projects and identified the critical points to achieve project's success. One project is from the sanitation sector and the other from the transportation sector, both developed in the Metropolitan Area of Sao Paulo and its surroundings. Public infrastructure projects normally have high levels of technical and management complexities. In recent years in Brazil, infrastructure projects have been showing increasing costs and a growing number of active companies. Moreover, these kinds of projects tend to interfere in the urban and rural areas in the cities, presenting many different influences and interests coming from several stakeholders and, consequently, bringing a high level of management complexity. This paper presents the initial results of the case studies carried out in order to identify guidelines for the application of project management methods in public infrastructure projects. Continually taking into account the context and the specific needs of each project, these guidelines intend to aid structuring, planning and maximizing the results, the final quality of the construction products and contribute with the improvement of project management practices adopted.