Implementation of BIM in Spanish construction industry = Implementación BIM en la industria española de la construcción

Abstract

The Spanish construction industry has been subject to EU Directive 2014/24/UE. This directive allows member states to encourage, specify and even require the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in construction projects financed by EU public funds as of 2016. The QBIMInvest Project (supported by the Universidad Europea de Madrid) has conducted a survey, which is the subject of this article, on the implementation of Building Information Modeling in the Spanish AEC industry. This research uses 548 responses from a sample of Spanish AEC professionals to demonstrate that currently BIM tools are only being used in the design stage of residential buildings. There are few cases of them being applied in the construction, operation and maintenance stages or in other project types. On the other hand, professionals think that they will need at least 3 to 5 years to finish implementing BIM in projects. BIM, Architecture, Building Engineering, Construction INTRODUCTION BIM is one of the most promising advances in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry. Currently, the industry is continuing to inform their association members, stakeholders, etc. about BIM adoption in various ways [1]. Collaborative working software like BIM, which enhances the coordination between multidisciplinary teams throughout the building design and execution process [2, 3], has appeared in the AEC industry over the last decade. This methodology covers and manages all the building lifecycle information, simulating and updating digital representations for all the construction stages, functioning, demolition, and recycling.BIM solutions create and operate with digital databases for collaboration; manage changes in these databases, ensuring that a change to any part of the database is reflected in all the other parts; and capture and preserve information for reuse by other industry-specific applications. By applying information technology to the problem of describing a building in software, they enable higher quality work, greater speed, and more cost effectiveness for building design, construction, and operation [4]. These data-rich models can be effectively used by other members of the design team to coordinate the fabrication of a building's different systems. This has innumerable advantages in off-site construction domain including speed, economy, sustainability, and safety [5].Since February 2014 the Spanish construction industry has been subject to EU Directive 2014/24/UE [6], which seeks to modernize European Government procurement and reduce costs in the 28 EU member states. This directive allows member

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