Alhasan, S; Amoudi, O; Tong, M and Kumar, B (2019) Effectiveness of adopting BIM on quantity surveying profession during the project life cycle. In: Gorse, C and Neilson, C J (eds.) Proceedings of 35th Annual ARCOM Conference, 2-4 September 2019, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK.
Abstract
Despite significant role of the construction industry in nation’s wealth and development, it usually suffers from a poor performance in terms of time and cost overruns due to its complex nature, a large number of involved parties, a wide range of professions, etc. Quantity surveyors (QSs) are one of the key professions with many essential tasks over a project life cycle. BIM has been adopted by various professions in the construction industry to enhance project performance and tackle many problems within it. This paper aims to evaluate the effectiveness of adopting BIM on QS profession and its performance. The literature was intensively reviewed to determine the main responsibilities of QS over the project life cycle when they work for the main project parties (i.e. client, consultant, and contractor). A set of criteria were extracted and defined based on the main responsibilities of QS profession. Examples of these are the accuracy of quantification and cost estimation, quality of documentation and speed of the data processing. Many scenarios were produced, after modeling a multi-story building project utilizing Revit Architecture Software, to reflect various tasks of QSs and how BIM can be incorporated in these tasks. The model facilitates the generation of different outcomes of the tested scenarios. The initial results reveal that adopting BIM improves the accuracy and reliability of QSs outputs at an early stage of the project, and enhances the documentation of project performance over the project life cycle. Also, the results demonstrate that project parties get benefits, from BIM adoption by their QSs, in terms of more reliable budgeting, less errors in quantities measurement, better documentation, etc. More scenarios test will be carried out on the model.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 5D BIM; effectiveness; industry foundation class; project life cycle; quantity surveyors |
| Index terms: | data processing, effectiveness, project performance, multistory building, profession, industry foundation classes, modelling, construction industry, surveying, cost estimating, quantification, quantity surveying, accuracy, budgeting, documentation, project party, life cycle, cost overrun |
| Subjects: | performance management, financial management, project management theory and practice, professional development, sociology, measurement and scaling, industry analysis, profession, construction type, computational design, institututions, value management, health monitoring assessment and metrics, analytical methods, financial and cost management, data science |
| Topics: | Construction Technology, Stakeholder Management, Roles and Professions, Research Practice, Project Management, Engineering Principles, Information Management, Business Strategy, Cost Management, Health and Safety, Quality Management, Digital Applications |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCTA |
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