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The purpose of this paper was to review the current state of building information modelling (BIM) literature in Malaysia. A detailed description of the history and definition of BIM was also presented. A literature search was carried out on the Web of Science Core Collection (WoS CC) on BIM research in Malaysia. Results showed that Malaysian output...
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... which are similar to what BIM is capable of: (1) a graphical user interface to store and display complex element shapes; (2) an interactive graphic language to arrange different elements in a design space; (3) it can produce perspective or orthographic drawings and; (4) the database can be sorted by attributes such as material type. Since then, BDS has evolved over several stages to become what BIM is today as shown in figure 1. ...
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... The concept of BIM was conceived during this period. An early precursor to BIM, the Building Description System (BDS), proposed functionalities that align with many of the capabilities offered by BIM today [15]- [18]. A graphical user interface for storing and displaying intricate element forms, an interactive visual language for arranging diverse elements in a design space, the ability to generate perspective or orthographic drawings, and a database that can be sorted by attributes such as material type are among these features. ...
... When used as a solid basis for decisions throughout a facility's life cycle, which is defined as from initial conceptualization till demolition, a BIM is a collective knowledge resource (NBIMS-US, 2016). Since BIM was first conceived in 1974 under the term "Building Description System," [11]. Autodesk's popularisation of BIM led to its widespread adoption, and it is started to be used to describe a simulated model of the construction procedure. ...
... However, only a limited number of studies were executed within the context of BIM awareness among educators and TVET institutions. According to (Sinoh et al., 2020), a systematic nationwide survey on BIM in Malaysia still needs to be conducted. Further research in Malaysia should be aimed at better understanding the current state of BIM in the country before appropriate plans can be made for the widespread implementation of BIM (Sinoh et al., 2020). ...
... According to (Sinoh et al., 2020), a systematic nationwide survey on BIM in Malaysia still needs to be conducted. Further research in Malaysia should be aimed at better understanding the current state of BIM in the country before appropriate plans can be made for the widespread implementation of BIM (Sinoh et al., 2020). More research needs to be conducted by Malaysian academicians to identify the barriers in educational institutions, including recommendations to eliminate these obstacles in the education system (Hedayati et al., 2015). ...
BIM technology has become trending in the Malaysian construction industry recently; numerous research studies identify the lack of professional skills in BIM application as a primary reason for adopting BIM in industries. Facing professional skill issues, BIM education is related to cooperation with the industry, universities, technical colleges, and communities by practicing and specialising in training. This requires studying specific issues in BIM implementation among educators in TVET institutions, and coordination with industry professionals is necessary to unveil the present status of BIM in each of the professions. The Malaysian TVET Institutions are responding to these barriers by implementing BIM to the institution with the curriculum design, collaboration extending to multiple professionals in the industries at the same time, and providing adequate education and training to their educators. With this objective, a systematic literature review was carried out on WOS and SCOPUS guided by the ROSES methodology. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were selected based on keywords, abstracts, and the full content of the articles. In the end, 14 articles were thoroughly studied, the integration and evaluation methods analysed, and results obtained. The analysis shows the empirical evidence to identify the awareness and determine the barriers to implementing BIM among educators in Malaysia TVET Institutions. Finally, recommended strategies for mitigating barriers to implementing BIM for educators were identified
... In particular, the ongoing digital transformation process is becoming increasingly significant for construction project management accelerating the implementation of tools such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) [1]. BIM capabilities are the key to overcoming traditional challenges in construction project management by enhancing an integrative approach required for process groups within project management [2]. Integrating BIM with project management techniques is key for the improvement of the construction project outputs [3]. ...
Over the last decades, Building Information Modeling (BIM) has increased its relevance to construction project management to improve the construction projects’ outputs and the integration between stakeholders. BIM is undoubtedly a tool used worldwide and has become practically a standard in construction project management. However, despite the relevance of BIM for construction project management, no literature review has been conducted to unravel this relation. This study introduces a comprehensive understanding of the nexus between BIM and construction project management and its evolution. A screening process resulted in 166 peer-reviewed papers retrieved from the Web of Science database. Findings demonstrated that the incorporation of BIM in the construction project management literature still being incipient starting in 2010. Overall, this research agenda has been strengthened especially since 2017 driven by China and three traditional developed English-speaking countries (the USA, England, and Australia). The implementation of BIM within the construction project management literature is evolving from traditional drivers of monitoring/control such as schedule to more complex and multidimensional topics such as sustainability, lean construction, and optimization. The network representation revealed five clusters, each related to one or more subject groups defined in the project management body of knowledge. Overall, the most representative subject groups supported by the BIM implementation in construction project management were integration, time, and cost. Interestingly, the most representative process group is implementing/executing revealing the role of BIM as an enhancer of the development of the project’s activities, contrasting with the traditional project management literature focused mostly on the planning process group.
... Then, a generic building model (GBM) was implemented in 1995, reaching the BIM concept at the start of the twentieth-first century. Various effective analysis methods and innovative technologies were exploited to increase the BIM technology's critical role and accuracy in estimating projects cost [8]. Figure 3 presents the stages of development that occurred to the BIM technology (References in the figure are cited in the references [9]- [13]). ...
... Figure 3 presents the stages of development that occurred to the BIM technology (References in the figure are cited in the references [9]- [13]). Figure 3. Stages of development occurred to the BIM technology over the time [8] A published manuscript investigates and determines key elements and significant features of BIM technology. The research implemented a comprehensive literature review by which the BIM technology's key features and critical characteristics were classified. ...
This research is carried out to investigate the critical role of BIM technology in estimating the construction project cost with higher accuracy than the manual method of budget evaluation. A construction project case study is selected, presenting a commercial complex in Al-Anbar, Al-Ramadi, Iraq. A comparative analysis is conducted to compare the accuracy of the REVIT software (BIM technology) with the manual calculation method. The major research findings revealed that using the BIM technology via the REVIT software provided a more effective approach and practicality than manual calculations of steel, concrete, and other architectural components. In addition, the findings confirmed that the accuracy of cost estimation using BIM technology via REVIT software is better than manual calculations. The reason is the elimination of human errors during the calculations process. Thus, accurate results can be obtained from the REVIT software. Also, the research outputs indicated that using the BIM technology can save much time, effort, and cost needed to calculate the cost of the construction project compared to the manual cost estimation of the construction project.
... Digitalization and information technology have provided remarkable innovative methods for helping engineers from different disciplines track and manage their construction projects with less time, effort, and cost [2]. BIM technology, which was developed in 1974 [3], is capable of providing different effective solutions for building and construction via modeling the facility and tracking 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 variables before, during, and after the projects are executed, which is known as three dimensional (3-D), 4-D, 5-D, 6-D, and 7-D, respectively. BIM technology (Building Information Model-ling) can be defined as "A virtual approach, innovated by research and development (R&D), through which the data of construction projects and their information related to their degree of execution are modeled and tracked through computer software packages for enabling design and planning team, including construction stakeholders, such as civil engineers, architects, owners, designers, suppliers, consultants, contractors, and subcon-tractors to more effectively and easily cooperate and more facilitate their communication in comparison to conventional methods of design, planning using in construction" [4]. ...
... Level 1 represents structural elements by 2D or 3D digital objects. Model-based collaboration occurs in Level 2 between different parties, and network-based integration occurs in Level 3 [46]. VDC Scorecard was designed to measure the performance of the projects of virtual design firms with four major areas, 10 divisions, and 74 measures. ...
... As a result of the complexity of BIM applications, they are not as good as expected under many circumstances [57], although BIM has been well applied in some countries and some projects. To promote BIM applications, various BIM application maturity assessment models based on different enterprise perspectives and different project phases have been developed [17,22,[42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52]. ...
The existing project management maturity models and BIM maturity models have obvious deficiencies in evaluating the management level of engineering projects with BIM applications. This study aimed to use accepted assessment indexes to design an innovative BIM application maturity model suitable for different projects with BIM applications. This study proposes the concept of BIM Application Two-Dimensional Maturity (BATM), which simultaneously emphasizes the project business management (PBM) and project BIM application (PBA) maturities. The BATM model assesses the PBM and PBA maturities based on eight performance domains and 37 desired outcomes of PMBOK 7th edition. The application case shows that the use of the BATM model is simple and its effect is obvious. This study is the first to assess the BIM application maturity from the two dimensions of PBM and PBA, and provides new insights into the project BIM application maturity assessment. The application case sets an example for other companies to assess and improve their BATM.
... Adapted from (Sinoh et al., 2020) Green Building Over the past two decades, several rating tools have also appeared that aim to measure a building's environmental performance. As mentioned above, there are various GBATs in the market. ...
... The Evolution of BIM(Sinoh et al., 2020) Since BIM was introduced to the AEC world, various scholars have come out with a definition of BIM. ...
... The Government of Malaysia has undertaken various initiatives to increase the adoption of BIM in the country. As the champion of the BIM in Malaysia, (Sinoh et al., 2020) highlighted that CIDB has hosted a BIM Day every year since 2014. This event is part of the International Construction Week (ICW), which aims to promote and raise awareness of BIM. ...
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a tool that can be used throughout the lifecycle of a construction project by the whole project team. BIM intends to improve the collaboration between stakeholders and encourage quick and easy sharing of information, by bringing the work of various disciplines together, through a centralised model. The resulting model is a 3D digital representation of a facility, which allows reliable decision-making in real-time. However, most stakeholders are unconcerned about the lack of relevant knowledge regarding start-up and other related costs of implementing BIM, which is becoming a growing concern. The cost enforcement is often regarded as an obstacle to the implementation of BIM. The objective of this paper is to identify the cost profile themes on the BIM implementation. Works of literature review on the cost profile were done and a questionnaire survey was deployed to the construction players. The respondents consisted of individuals from both government and private sectors who have vast experience in BIM implementation in Malaysia construction projects. Using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software, the data collected were analysed with statistical analysis to evaluate and determine the cost profile attributes regarding the implementation of BIM. The findings revealed that there are five cost profile themes with BIM implementation, namely (1) investment in high technology software licensing, (2) investment in upgraded hardware, (3) intensive BIM employee training, (4) premium staff salary of BIM expert, and (5) high-cost BIM consultancy fees. These findings will be useful for the industry players to address before deciding to migrate into BIM technology, hence, it will accelerate the adoption of BIM construction in Malaysia.
... Thus, this approach will somewhat gradually increase the numbers of expertise in the field as well as expand the exposure to BIM capabilities among designers. Sinoh et al. (2020) has also recently indicates the roles of government as one of the solutions in undertaking the impediments factors of BIM adoption through expanding BIM competency in the industry, promoting BIM awareness and also BIM deployment in higher learning education [34]. ...
... Thus, this approach will somewhat gradually increase the numbers of expertise in the field as well as expand the exposure to BIM capabilities among designers. Sinoh et al. (2020) has also recently indicates the roles of government as one of the solutions in undertaking the impediments factors of BIM adoption through expanding BIM competency in the industry, promoting BIM awareness and also BIM deployment in higher learning education [34]. ...
In today’s world, Building Information Modelling (BIM) is not a new term in the construction industry. Although BIM has been adopted in the AEC industry for a few decades now, the BIM implementation cultivation pace between developed countries and developing countries such as many European which considered as BIM leaders and some Asian countries has still shown significant differences. In Malaysia, there are several remarkable building projects with BIM utilization but very limited in road and highways project. Despite BIM capabilities in facilitating designers during design stage, BIM implementation are still considered unfavourable within the highway design consultants in Malaysia. Many firms seem reluctant to migrate from their traditional 2D drafting centric design process to BIM design process due to several reasons such as high cost in software investment, inadequate knowledge and expertise on BIM and lack of promotion from the government or relevant authority. Although BIM can benefit the project throughout its life-cycle from preliminary to operation and maintenance stage, the coordination and integration during design stage can contributes to positive impacts in progressing towards efficient construction documentation and construction stage. BIM 3D integrated modelling during design stage (conceptual and detailed design) are deemed to facilitate a highway project in terms of optimization through early visualization, design for constructability, road safety enhancement, reduce error and time consumption during construction and early clash detection. Therefore, this paper is intended to gather preliminary outlooks and views from the present practitioners in the highway industry on challenges encounters by consultants using the current traditional design practices, BIM capabilities in transforming the current design approach and BIM adoption barriers in Malaysian highway industry. Series of interviews were conducted with the professionals involved in highway projects especially during the design stage and based on the findings from the interviews conducted, all highway design consultants from various disciplines are aware on how BIM can tackle the challenges of current traditional design practice with 3D modelling approach and collaborative working environment. Although the results showed that highway consultants are willing to migrate to BIM workflow, cost and lack of expertise, urges from government and understanding on BIM are among barriers which hinder the BIM adoption in highway industry.
