A Review of Application Building Information Modeling (BIM) During Pre-Construction Stage: Retrospective and Future Directions

Abstract

Abstract. Pre-construction is one of the biggest areas of risk and uncertainty in construction project as it deals with subsurface ground conditions information. The amount of detail data needed in pre-construction especially for existing data modelling and site analysis should be sufficient enough to ensure that significant risks could not reasonably be anticipated. Current practicing method in interpreting data during this stage tasks reveal limitation. Construction industry faced many obstacles due to the depends on the traditional practice; paper-based document which missing and redundant data always happened. In recent years, there has been a shift in construction where people move to BIM application because of its potential to reduce the problem faced by infrastructure world. BIM has become a successful technology and widely popular in the construction world especially in developed countries because of its potential. Nowadays, people are moving one step ahead in BIM which is adoption of BIM during pre-construction stage. Thus, this paper review studies centered on BIM-integrated modelling during preconstruction stage. But there is lack of practical researches have been made during this stage. Although a large number of studies on BIM have been conducted in the past decade, a lack of consensus remains among researchers and practitioners regarding the applications of BIM during pre-construction stage, the availability of subsequent data integration tool for geotechnical activity. A comprehensive literature review was conducted for data collection and analysis. After in-depth review of journal articles widely cover the application of BIM, this study summarizes an overview and critical reflection of geotechnical data integration using BIM during pre-construction stage. The results are useful for the identification of research clusters and topics in the BIM community.

A Systematic Review of the Digital Transformation of the Building Construction Industry

“…In the pre-construction phase, BIM can enhance project team collaboration, decision-making, and communication. BIM is transforming the construction industry and increasing productivity through the use of clash detection to maintain safety and quality standards and to improve project effectiveness, cost management, and quality management [72][73] [3]. [74]highlighted the importance of BIM usage in the construction industry, while [75] mentioned the use of BIM applications to optimize layout spaces.…”

Green Building Construction: A Systematic Review of BIM Utilization

“…Given the enormous complexity, extensive information and uncertainty in pre-construction, the pre-construction phase of green buildings is always an area to which construction teams and subcontractors attach great importance [50,65,153,154]. According to the systematic review and discussion in this study, the BIM implementation in the pre-construction phase of green buildings can be adopted from the perspectives of information and knowledge delivery, feasibility study, construction team setup, construction plans and schedule formulation, construction cost estimation and budget formation, construction material supplement and transportation, and construction equipment management.…”

(Computationally) designing out waste: Developing a computational design workflow for minimising construction and demolition waste in early-stage architectural design

“…Indeed, BIM adoption studies often cite these challenges and reflect on cultural specificities, but they also indicate a more general trend of limited BIM engagement in earlier stages of architectural design. [27][28][29]42 A BIM-centric construction waste tool is thereby limited in terms of its likely impact on early design decisions; however, BIM-compatibility remains desirable. The need for integrated virtual waste performance evaluation tools to support architects and designers to make informed construction waste management decisions in their projects is underscored in research undertaken by Liu et al 23 Drawing on the analysis of architectural industry data from interviews and surveys, the research team propose a detailed BIM-aided construction waste minimisation (BaW) framework.…”

“…Moreover, despite the more general drive for BIM practices across the AEC industrymotivated by e-delivery frameworks, collaboration through a shared three-dimensional digital representation of a project, client expectations and regulatory mandatingearlystage architectural design is not always undertaken in a BIM environment. [26][27][28][29] Developing a construction waste management tool for use by architects and designers in the design process is further challenged by the heterogeneous ways that design is practised across large and small organisations and in different cultural contexts. For these reasons and following the logic of zero waste to address construction waste 'at the source', the research project described here adopts a computational design approach to develop a construction waste tool for architects and designers that can flexibly operate in both integrated and discrete ways across the design decision-making spectrum.…”