A Systematic Review of Current Strategies and Methods for BIM Implementation in the Academic Field

Abstract

Since the international governmental institutions required and/or recommended (according to the regulations of each country and continent) all public works to be certified in the BIM (Building Information Modeling) methodology, public and private institutions and universities have sought to integrate BIM into their production and educational processes. This requires the university academic environment to focus its efforts on training students in this methodology, as they will need to apply it in any future work activities related to architecture and construction. This article seeks to analyze which methods are being used by higher education institutions around the world to integrate BIM implementation in AEC (architecture, engineering, and construction) degrees and to determine if a set of regulatory guidelines exists that could serve as a common foundation for institutions to improve this integration process. To this end, a systematic literature review was carried out on WOS and SCOPUS by applying the PRISMA statement methodology. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were selected based on keywords, abstracts, and full content of the articles. In the end, 23 articles were thoroughly studied, the integration and evaluation methods analyzed, and results obtained. The analysis shows a consensus on the need to develop common academic guidelines across university centers that define a strategy for curriculum modifications and teaching and learning strategies. Finally, future lines of research are identified.

BIM for the Realization of Sustainable Digital Models in a University-Business Collaborative Learning Environment: Assessment of Use and Students’ Perception

“…These results show that the BIM methodology provides an exceptional opportunity to carry out a collaborative team project, with coordination and leadership tasks being essential in the professional practice of an engineer. This result is in agreement with other academic BIM proposals [22,[50][51][52][53]. The use of the University-Enterprise environment is only significant in the results of the degree of integration and maturity in teamwork (S 2 ).…”

Remote Practice Methods of Survey Education for HBIM in the Post-Pandemic Era: Case Study of Kuiwen Pavilion in the Temple of Confucius (Qufu, China)

“…So Li et al (2019) [4] continued to suggest that the fundamental issue of HBIM is the balance between regularization modeling and differentiation modeling. Therefore, the algorithmic modeling of HBIM could be a better solution because it is easy to repeat with node-visible modeling programs [5][6][7][8][9][10].…”

The establishment of BIM‐embedded knowledge‐sharing platform and its learning community model: A case of prefabricated building design

“…Many studies indicated that BIM can be also used to help students understand the engineering-related knowledge, the design and construction process, the design details, and the related techniques [3,17]. Besides this, the integration of BIM and knowledge ontology will be beneficial for engineering education.…”