Adoption of the Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Construction Project Effectiveness: The Review of BIM Benefits

Lancine Doumbouya¹, Guoping Gao¹ and Changsheng Guan^1,

¹School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430074, PR China

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Lancine Doumbouya, Guoping Gao and Changsheng Guan. Adoption of the Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Construction Project Effectiveness: The Review of BIM Benefits. American Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture. 2016; 4(3):74-79. doi: 10.12691/ajcea-4-3-1

Abstract

Building Information Modeling (BIM) has recently attracted extensive attention in the Architectural, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry with an increase in the use of information technology, all the while increasing productivity, efficiency, infrastructure value, quality, and sustainability, rendering a purer image of constructability issues that are dealt with at the beginning of the construction process. The purpose of this study is to better comprehend the BIM benefits and to analyze BIM adoption, thus providing better understanding of BIM and its usefulness in various stages of the construction projects. Our review concludes that BIM fulfills its purpose through all the stages of the construction project delivering benefits in terms of improved design quality, easiness to implement, information sharing ability, reduction of construction costs and design errors, faster work and shortening the construction time, enhancing energy efficiency, supporting construction and project management, and enabling its owners more operational efficiency in the building lifecycle. The current research identifies relevant factors and outcomes of BIM, and sets up a framework for a future study. The critical review of BIM benefits contributes to the existing body of literature on AEC and BIM.

Keywords:
Building information modeling BIM BIM Adoption Building information modeling benefits Construction project effectiveness

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