Gurevich, U; Sacks, R and Shrestha, P (2017) BIM adoption by public facility agencies: Impacts on occupant value. Building Research & Information, 45(6), pp. 610-630. ISSN 0961-3218
Abstract
Many governments have begun to demand that large public facility agencies adopt and implement building information modelling (BIM) in their business processes. Some have published BIM guides. Most of these are technical specifications that are useful at the project level, but they provide no support for the organization-level adoption effort. On the basis of a literature review, action research and case studies of five large UK government facility agencies, a BIM adoption impact map (BIM AIM) is proposed. It describes a set of possible relationships between the actions taken by public facility agencies, the intermediate outcomes of their actions and the eventual achievement of value for the occupants of the facilities they build. BIM AIM can be used by public facility agencies with a wide variety of construction project types to analyse and visualize the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities in their BIM adoption efforts, potentially enabling them to focus on social impacts and outcomes rather than on the technological or management actions that intermediate stakeholders promote.;Many governments have begun to demand that large public facility agencies adopt and implement building information modelling (BIM) in their business processes. Some have published BIM guides. Most of these are technical specifications that are useful at the project level, but they provide no support for the organization-level adoption effort. On the basis of a literature review, action research and case studies of five large UK government facility agencies, a BIM adoption impact map (BIM AIM) is proposed. It describes a set of possible relationships between the actions taken by public facility agencies, the intermediate outcomes of their actions and the eventual achievement of value for the occupants of the facilities they build. BIM AIM can be used by public facility agencies with a wide variety of construction project types to analyse and visualize the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities in their BIM adoption efforts, potentially enabling them to focus on social impacts and outcomes rather than on the technological or management actions that intermediate stakeholders promote.;Many governments have begun to demand that large public facility agencies adopt and implement building information modelling (BIM) in their business processes. Some have published BIM guides. Most of these are technical specifications that are useful at the project level, but they provide no support for the organization-level adoption effort. On the basis of a literature review, action research and case studies of five large UK government facility agencies, a BIM adoption impact map (BIM AIM) is proposed. It describes a set of possible relationships between the actions taken by public facility agencies, the intermediate outcomes of their actions and the eventual achievement of value for the occupants of the facilities they build. BIM AIM can be used by public facility agencies with a wide variety of construction project types to analyse and visualize the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities in their BIM adoption efforts, potentially enabling them to focus on social impacts and outcomes rather than on the technological or management actions that intermediate stakeholders promote.;
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | social impact; building information modelling; public owners; bim adoption; asset management; occupant value; project outcomes; public construction; construction & building technology; implementation; technology acceptance model; case studies; literature reviews; construction; building management systems |
| Index terms: | technology acceptance model, social impact, implementation, occupant value, agency, public construction, construction project, project outcome, public owner, asset management, literature review, case study, action research, building technology, specification, building management system, building information modelling |
| Subjects: | data collection methods, mechanical systems, project completion, engineering systems, health behaviours and lifestyles, contractual arrangements, data analysis and analytics, production management, contractual condition, acoustic properties, building construction, sociology, asset management, information systems |
| Topics: | Contract Administration, Digital Applications, Stakeholder Management, Procurement, Business Strategy, Project Management, Research Practice, Engineering Principles |
| Descriptive scope: | 5 PCTEA |
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