Performance Impacts of BIM application on organization structure and process flow chart for contractors
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Lin, Shih-Sung
Abstract
The development and application of Building Information Modeling (BIM) has become an in-negligible trend in the construction industry in recent years. BIM has become a basic requirement for competition in the trade in many advanced countries in the European and American regions. The Agency-in-charge of construction projects within our country has already started initiating or even piloting BIM. Many large-scale construction companies within the country have also introduced BIM into their operation. Nevertheless, the process of introducing BIM into the trade has faced many challenges, mainly due to the high cost incurred for introducing BIM in the initial stage which is only affordable for large-scale consultants and construction companies, and the technology cannot be spreaded to small and medium-sized consultants, construction companies and architects offices. Hence BIM cannot be effectively utilized throughout the process from design to consutrction. Even in cases where sufficient resources were available for introducing BIM, companies still face pressure from retrieving the value of the resources invested. The key rests in the adjustment of the structure of the entire organization and the efficiency of impelementation. This paper will explore the issues encountered by construction companies within our nation in implementing construction projects with BIM introduced. Through literature review, interview with experts and analysis of surveys, this paper hopes to explore possible solutions and propose directors for continual development. By conducting surveys and analysis on the actual effect on construction process by different workflows with BIM introduced, we would also get to know about the clients’ degree of satisfaction regarding the changed workflow in designing the projects. The research could be taken as reference by construction companies in designing implementation during the initial stage of introducing BIM. The research will not only take into account the soft and hardwares required in introducing BIM, costs for personnel training and specific professionals required, but also collect data concerning the challenges faced by construction companies regarding “incomplete information on design drafts which results in repeated review and revisions”, “difficulties in preparing budgets due to high cost of introducing BIM”, “difficulties in accounting manpower and time required during the construction process”, etc, and propose better solutions for construction companies attempting to introduce BIM. These include “integrated approach in introducing BIM from top to bottom”, “Government’s increased efforts in promoting BIM through its policy applied in the construction industry”, “enhancing the training of personnel and accumulation of experiences”. The research would also analyse the clients’ degree of satisfaction regarding the changed workflow in designing the projects.
Subjects
BIM
construction companies
organizational structure
workflow
cost analysis
Type
thesis
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