Bim in French Smes: From Innovation to Necessity

Abstract

Building Information Modeling (BIM) arrives in great strength in France and in Europe. This process has been mainly recognized for its capacity to energize the building market by sustainable means and the digitization of the current work system. For the SMEs (a business needs to have fewer than 249 employees to be considered an SME), this vast development site proves to be a difficult shift to implement but one that is not to missed in order to gain competitiveness and be able to compete with markets that remained until now undiscovered. Being able to keep updated on the BIM in the view to understand its strategic stakes and to track its development, expansion, and regulatory framework in France will enable you to decide more efficiently on the strategy of BIM you wish to implement in your business. By defining the current state of your business and by setting targets and timeframes, you undertake a management change. Employees and stakeholders are the key elements of success of the BIM implementation. In order to assess the progress of the BIM maturity in the SMEs, a survey has been given out to several French stakeholders thus allowing us to have a good general vision of the innovation in the SMEs. The results of the survey conducted as part of this article, highlights a real enthusiasm from the participants of this sector, but with some concern and questioning.

Information Requirements for an Efficient Renovation Process

“…(Bosch-Sijtsema et al, 2017) assert that the results from their study on SMEs indicated that more than half of medium-sized contractors in the sample used BIM in some projects and the main obstacles for BIM implementation is related to the lack of normative pressure. (Tranchant et al, 2017) carried out an immersive 3D projection for the simulation of the Ajaccio hospital in France. According to (Tranchant et al 2017), the heart of the economy of France is that of SMEs, which represents 96% of companies.…”

BIM Methodology and Tools Implementation for Construction Companies (GreenBIM Project)

“…This configuration is not related to a specific country, but it is common for the sector. For example, in Italy around 96% of the construction companies have less than nine employees (ANCE 2017), in the UK 93% have less than 13 employees (DTI UK 2006), and in France (all sectors combined) 98.8% of companies are SMEs (Tranchant et al 2017).…”

Evolution Within the Maturity Concept of Bim

“…The objectives are then, to provide concrete assistance to companies willing to engage in BIM maturity levels by using all the information collected [3], [4]. This study is the opportunity to make links between different maturity models, from critical success factors to practical actions to implement in a company wishing to move toward the maturity levels of BIM [5], [6] BIM abroad and in France.…”