Barriers to Implement Building Information Modeling (BIM) in Construction Industry: A Critical Review

Abstract

Construction is a complex industry. A system like Building Information Modeling (BIM) has benefited many construction players in order to expedite their works effectively and efficiently in terms of design, implementation, and management of a project. As the construction industry involves many players such as clients, designers, contractors, and manufacturers, the existence of BIM can speed up planning time, minimizing resources, and even saving project costs. However, in some countries, the acceptance of BIM technology in the construction industry is still very low. This paper aims to explore and review the barriers associating with adopting BIM as a digital information tool in the construction industry. A systematic review was conducted of 26 journal articles and conference papers published between 2013 to 2019. The identified barriers were then classified and analyzed. The results of the study revealed that from the 26 selected articles, 15 categories of barriers have been successfully extracted and discussed. 15 categories of barriers are cost, law, experts, interoperability, awareness, culture, processes, management, demand, project scale, technology, skills, training, contract, and standard. The study offers significant insights for future research to overcome the barriers to the implementation of BIM.

Research of the problems of BIM technologies implementation in the investment-and-construction projects of the Russian companies

“…1) lack of support from top management; that is demonstrated in the conservative approach to the project management [17,18,19]. Availability of such support by many researchers is specified as a significant factor of successful BIM implementation at the enterprise [19,20];…”

“…2) high cost of BIM implementation, caused by high initial investment costs on equipment procurement, software and personnel training as well [18,21,22,23,24,25,26]. Proceeding from the quantity of reference to the cost in the analysed sources, this barrier should be named as the most widespread and significant one;…”

“…3) lack of education and skills necessary for work with BIM both directly among the staff of the organizations, and in the labour market in general [18,19,27,28]. The deficiency of qualified personnel is also noted as a burning matter and leads to some obstacles to BIM introduction (points 4, 5 and 9); 4) slow adaptation of employees of all levels to work with BIM [21], causing the necessity to spend time on training [18,19,26], skills, organization of activity and interaction with other staff or representatives of other organizations, etc.…”

Internet of Things-Building Information Modeling Integration: Attacks, Challenges, and Countermeasures

“…Effective communication still depends on the human side and corporate culture. Meanwhile, BIM integration may improve confidence among the project's numerous partners [74]. Confidence in the completeness and correctness of the "Dimensional (D) models" has remained the main focus of the industrial participants, and only twodimensional (2D) drawings are used to exchange information.…”

“…The IoT system can automatically log construction time through sensor scanning, ensuring that the device works promptly and warns users of its usage [75]. Safe Control: If the placements are not appropriately checked, material theft may occur on-site [74]. RFID tags are useful for quickly resolving any material or item theft because they provide information about the current location of the material or item [24].…”