Where to Focus for Successful Adoption of Building Information Modeling within Organization

Abstract

Suggestions abound for successful adoption of building information modeling (BIM); however, a company with limited resources cannot adopt them all. The factors that have top management priority for successful accomplishment of a task are termed critical success factors (CSFs). This paper aims to derive the CSFs for four questions commonly asked by companies in the first wave of BIM adoption: (1) What are the CSFs for adopting BIM in a company? (2) What are the CSFs for selecting projects to deploy BIM? (3) What are the CSFs for selecting BIM services? (4) What are the CSFs for selecting company-appropriate BIM software applications? A list of consideration factors was collected for each question, based on a literature review, and then refined through face-to-face interviews based on experiences of BIM experts. An international survey was conducted with leading BIM experts. From the 206 distributed surveys, 52 responses from four continents were collected. This study used quantitative data analysis to derive a manageable number (4-10) of CSFs for each category from dozens of anecdotal consideration factors. The derived CSFs are expected to be used as efficient metrics for evaluating and managing the level of BIM adoption and as a basis for developing BIM evaluation models in the future.

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“…The focus of such future work should seek to provide additional insight into the mechanics of collaboration between SMEs, designers, clients and large-sized companies in engaging with BIM. (Aibinu and Venkatesh 2014;Gholizadeh et al 2018;Goucher and Thurairajah 2012;Lam et al 2017;Niemann 2017;Won et al 2013) Barr 02 …”

“…Managing change and ensuring trust among the team represent further considerations amongst firms striving to transform their business to embrace BIM adoption (Aibinu and Venkatesh 2014;Cao et al 2014;Won et al 2013). Indeed, Azhar (2011) purports that the barriers to BIM use are either technical or managerial, whilst Won et al (2013) and Zhang et al (2018) proffer that managing the non-technical organizational issues is more urgent than technical barriers.…”

“…Indeed, Azhar (2011) purports that the barriers to BIM use are either technical or managerial, whilst Won et al (2013) and Zhang et al (2018) proffer that managing the non-technical organizational issues is more urgent than technical barriers.…”

“…In addition, Won et al (2013), suggests that not all projects are appropriate for BIM use for example, small projects can be too simplistic realize the maximum benefits of BIM. Firms may struggle to align BIM implementation with the inter-organizational capabilities supplied by their counterparts and partners .…”

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