How Digital Information Transforms Project Delivery Models

Whyte, Jennifer

doi:10.1177/8756972818823304

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“…or 'digital integrator' to lead integration as a deliverable to owners and operators (Whyte 2019). The role includes professional competence to assure information quality (clash-free models, buildable designs) and knowledge of the impact of design decisions on product quality, user satisfaction, cost, programme, and asset management.…”

Section: Managerial Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Systemic BIM Adoption: A Multilevel Perspective

Murguia

Demian

Soetanto

2021

J. Constr. Eng. Manage.

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Systemic innovations require multiple interdependent actors to change their practices simultaneously in order to realise the benefits of the innovation. Building Information Modelling (BIM) has been classified as a systemic innovation that is adopted by building projects, firms, and users. However, the slow diffusion of BIM in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) sector has maintained the gap between BIM visions and actual BIM practice. Some governments are planning to enact policies to promote BIM adoption in construction. However, in some countries, BIM adoption has already started with large construction organisations (i.e., the middle-out diffusion approach). To learn from previous experience and before enacting top-down interventions, policymakers require a model to stimulate systemic BIM adoption for entire supply chains with fragmented project and organisational structures. The current paper investigates systemic adoption of digital innovations in construction and is aimed at formulating a model of systemic BIM adoption (MSBA). Three primary datasets consisting of 133 BIM users, 30 chief executive officers, and 20 project managers were collected in Peru and collectively analysed using cross-classified multilevel modelling (CCMM). It was found that MSBA has five user-, three firm-, and two project-level factors, explaining 28%, 75% and 50% of variance in users' BIM adoption respectively. The proposed model would provide useful guidance for corporate decisionmakers and government policymakers to develop BIM-diffusion policies to accelerate adoption. It would also provide a useful practical implementation framework as the industry progresses towards a digital mode of working and could underpin further digitalisation of the sector worldwide.

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Section: Managerial Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Systemic BIM Adoption: A Multilevel Perspective

Murguia

Demian

Soetanto

2021

J. Constr. Eng. Manage.

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“…The deepening transformative impact of digital information on project delivery models in construction is already clearly evident (Whyte, 2019). Against this background, it is quite likely that fulfilment of the DTC mode will also change existing commercial practices by facilitating a platform economy in the construction industry.…”

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confidence: 99%

Construction with digital twin information systems

Sacks

Brilakis

Pikas

et al. 2020

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The concept of a “digital twin” as a model for data-driven management and control of physical systems has emerged over the past decade in the domains of manufacturing, production, and operations. In the context of buildings and civil infrastructure, the notion of a digital twin remains ill-defined, with little or no consensus among researchers and practitioners of the ways in which digital twin processes and data-centric technologies can support design and construction. This paper builds on existing concepts of Building Information Modeling (BIM), lean project production systems, automated data acquisition from construction sites and supply chains, and artificial intelligence to formulate a mode of construction that applies digital twin information systems to achieve closed loop control systems. It contributes a set of four core information and control concepts for digital twin construction (DTC), which define the dimensions of the conceptual space for the information used in DTC workflows. Working from the core concepts, we propose a DTC information system workflow—including information stores, information processing functions, and monitoring technologies—according to three concentric control workflow cycles. DTC should be viewed as a comprehensive mode of construction that prioritizes closing the control loops rather than an extension of BIM tools integrated with sensing and monitoring technologies.

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“…They lose their relevance when site managers (and other core professionals) gain more BIM knowledgeas also observed in the reusable elements labelling activity. Given that digital information becomes increasingly pervasive in construction (Whyte 2019), demolition contractors are thus likely to slowly absorb BIMinduced changes through temporary BIM roles.…”

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BIM uses for deconstruction: an activity-theoretical perspective on reorganising end-of-life practices

Berg

Voordijk

Adriaanse

2021

Construction Management and Economics

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Despite that Building Information Modelling (BIM) is often praised as a whole life-cycle methodology, possibilities for deconstruction are consistently overlooked. This study demonstrates what those possibilities may be. Previous studies showed that: deconstruction practices pose several site-based challenges; BIM implementations may help practitioners to address such challenges; and activity theory offers a framework to understand BIM implementations. We aimed to explore how deconstruction practices can be reorganised with BIM by applying an activity-theoretical perspective to a rather unique case-study. The selected case concerned the deconstruction of a nursing home so that many of its elements could be reused to construct a school. During this project, we implemented BIM in three essential activities: analysing existing conditions, labelling of reusable elements and planning deconstruction. The implementations resolved initial problems related with the use of traditional drawings, schedules and instructions. They nevertheless also triggered several additional problems that we attempted to address in successive steps. The organisation of the activities so evolved, which culminated in the formation of three new BIM uses for deconstruction: "3D existing conditions analysis," "reusable elements labelling" and "4D deconstruction simulation". These concepts complement existing BIM use taxonomies and can be appropriated in future deconstruction projects.

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How Digital Information Transforms Project Delivery Models

Cited by 108 publications

References 59 publications

Systemic BIM Adoption: A Multilevel Perspective

Systemic BIM Adoption: A Multilevel Perspective

Construction with digital twin information systems

BIM uses for deconstruction: an activity-theoretical perspective on reorganising end-of-life practices

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