CONSTRAINTS ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT FOR BIM APPLICATION

Abstract

Building Information Modeling (BIM) provides the construction industry with opportunities and challenges. There are BIM Roadmap and BIM Guidelines being provided to encourage more industry players to take up BIM in their project delivery. However, there are still some industry players who struggled to implement and adopt BIM. This is largely due to the limited resources within each organisation. This study focuses on the analysing the Triple Constraints of potential and existing BIM users to establish a relationship among constraints, barriers and bottlenecks. The idea of identifying and prioritising user constraints is a key point of discussion. The features of BIM are also related back to Triple Constraints of users. Other factors affecting benefits of BIM is examined. Data is collected through interview with potential BIM users, case study and observations. A qualitative analysis is being carried out on the data collected. A system dynamics analysis is done to identify the existing situation in the industry and relate it to Triple Constraints of the user. Finally, a framework is proposed from the research findings to allow industry players to improve the BIM maturity level from a different and more effective perspective. Recommendation for future works is also suggested.