Technology-organisation-environment framework for Building Information Modelling (BIM) adoption challenges for contractor's organisations in Malaysia

• Published in: Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience
• Main Author: Mohammad W.N.S.W.; Abdullah M.R.; Ismail S.; Takim R.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Scientific Publishers 2019
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85068585734&doi=10.1166%2fjctn.2019.7885&partnerID=40&md5=621a5583a734ce38a094f2161e7d4977

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a tool for collaboration among construction organisations in generating and managing data throughout the construction lifecycle. Various advantages of BIM include reducing the number of clashes within the construction process, improving the building visualization, and shortening the planning period. Despite the advantages, contractor's organisations are still hesitant to deploy the technology. A semi-structured interview was conducted through eight (8) respondents from contractor's organizations which adopt BIM. The interview data were recorded and analyzed using ATLAS.ti software. As a result, the finding demonstrated eight (8) substantial challenges in adopting BIM including staff resistance, selection of software and hardware, lack of knowledge an information of BIM, lack of data of return on investment of BIM, implementation cost and benefits, lack of demands from the clients, lack of supply chain buy-in, and lack of standardspolicy makers. Meanwhile, another ten (10) challenges for instance training and education, culture change, ownership and intellectual property, contractual agreement, authenticity, product liabilities risks, legal uncertainties and affection to the business environment are remarked as least challenges revealed by the participants. In spite, two (2) additional challenges which are not mentioned by the previous researchers were disclosed by the participants which are trustworthiness and organization's politic. On this balance, all the challenges grouped into technology-organization environment framework. Thus, it is expected that the finding shall bring significant and knowledge for the construction practices to understand the challenges in adopting BIM across construction projects. Copyright © 2019 American Scientific Publishers All rights reserved.