Guidelines for Building Information Modeling (BIM) performance improvement in the EPC industry

摘要

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a set of interacting policies, processes and technologies generating an approach to manage design and project data in digital format throughout the project life-cycle. Although BIM is applied traditionally to the civil industry, the implementation of such a tool seems to be beneficial also for the industrial plants sector. Starting from the assessment of the current status of BIM implementation in the Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) industry, this research aims to provide guidelines for BIM performance improvement for EPC contractors of the Oil & Gas industry, where the need for information management optimization is increasing.