ISSUES IN THE DESIGN AND BUILD (D&B) CONTRACT OF BUILDING INFORMATION MODELLING (BIM) PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

• Published in: Malaysian Construction Research Journal
• Main Author: Azmi N.A.; Brahim J.; Ismail Z.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Construction Research Institute of Malaysia 2024
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85194544301&partnerID=40&md5=4935eb3d51add8a544d7f75eba8f9bc2

Building Information Modelling (BIM) technology has been advocated as a highly efficient and effective approach that can minimize the cost, time and risk of construction from design to the state of construction of the project. In line with that, appropriate legal commitments should be specified explicitly in a contract. On the reason of lack of clear guidelines on how to embrace and apply BIM in current contracts, BIM implementation in the Malaysian construction sector has encountered disputes. This research is aimed to investigate the contractual issues in BIM as BIM implementation. Semi structured interviews were carried out with seven (7) respondents that have experienced and currently involved in full for the first time for D&B BIM projects in the Malaysian construction industry. There are nine (9) issues in the current contract which are interoperability, allocation of additional fee, allocation of risk, changes of model, model hosting and archiving, model ownership and intellectual property, privity and third-party reliance, requirement of model, spearin doctrine and standard of care. This paper is expected to give exposure to the government on the issue in the current Design & Build (D&B) contract in the implementation of BIM and direct the government in improve D&B contract between client and contractor to be compatible with their specific context and needs. © 2024, Construction Research Institute of Malaysia. All rights reserved.