Evolution of BIM Adoption and Implementation by the Construction Industry over the Past Decade: A Replication Study

摘要

In the past decade, an increasing number of construction projects have utilized building information modeling (BIM) for their success. Works of various scholars in the past decade have shed the light on the application potential for BIM through aggregating the results of multiple case studies showing how BIM (or 3D/4D modeling) can be applied to address project challenges. This paper aggregates the results of a more recent set of 28 case studies to assess how the use of BIM applications to address different challenges in construction projects has evolved in the past 10 years, replicating the methodology used in a 2008 study. The main findings of this analysis are that practitioners, on average, have used 3D/4D models for four application areas, as opposed to only one to two application areas from the original 2008 study. The paper suggests developing more updated analysis framework to cope with the expanding 3D/4D modeling applications, as well as tackling the psychological barriers that hinder further 3D/4D modeling implementation.