An empirical investigation the adoption factors of building information modelling (BIM) from the perspective of Malaysian Civil And Structure Consultant Firms

The construction industry in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0) have to focus on high-technology jobs such as technological skill rather than labour-intensive approach and low-skilled job. But, most of the construction industries in Malaysia are using traditional approach which is labour-intensive approach and it has resulted in fragmentation issue among the project participants resulting less productivity and inefficiency in delivering the project. In order to tackle this issue, Building Information Modelling (BIM) can offer a platform to integrate between different parties in the construction industry. It also offers a lot of benefits to construction industry in term of productivity and efficiency. Even though there are a lot of benefits that can be gained by BIM utilisation and many efforts to increase the adoption of BIM in construction projects such as conducting the seminars, workshops and incentives but, the rate of BIM adoption by the Malaysian construction players is still low compared to other Asians countries. Therefore, there is a need to study the adoption factors within Malaysian construction industry that could facilitate the pace of BIM adoption in Malaysia especially from the perspective of civil and structure (C&S) consultant firms. Several studies had explored the way to increase the pace of BIM adoption from the perspective of architectures, facilities management, quantity surveyor and contractors, and very little effort to identify the adoption factors and its relationship that could facilitate the adoption of BIM especially from the perspective of C&S consultant firms. C&S consultant firm plays a vital role to ensure the design is constructible, operable and maintainable. Thus, the aim of this study is to examine the relationship between organizations, people and technology towards making decisions in adopting BIM from the perspective C&S consultant firm. In this study, qualitative and quantitative approaches have been utilised as research method to develop in-depth understanding of the happening by obtaining the views on the subject studied especially the current application of BIM in the Malaysian construction industry. At the same time, this study is conducted to explore what are the factors that affecting the adoption of BIM in the Malaysian construction industry. Lack of national guideline for implementing BIM, pressure from clients or governments and lacking of technical support from BIM experts are the vital challenges faced by the adopters besides having a higher cost of early investment in BIM technology. Analysis from multiple linear regression revealed the factors that have a strong relationship in influencing organisation to adopt BIM are; having a strong support from the top management, having a coercive pressure, having a clear BIM implementation plan, undergo training, having a BIM competency team, having a clear job specification for new roles, BIM technology must free from interoperability issue, less cost of technology, and the issue of compatibility. This study offers a new insight from the perspective of C&S consultant firms on the adoption of BIM and could improve the rate of BIM adoption. At the same time, it could fill the gap from previous studies by extending the study of BIM adoption by investigating from C&S consultant firm’s point of view and it complementing the overall view of BIM adoption from all participants

Implications Of Researcher Assumptions About Perceived Relative Advantage And Compatibility

Although scale reuse is an important and efficient research practice, it may not always be the most appropriate practice. Mechanistically reusing scales developed for a particular context may lead to a variety of undesirable effects. One of the risks is that frequently reused scales can inadvertently begin to alter the definitions of related constructs. When this occurs, a full understanding of the constructs can be lost. Innovation diffusion is one area in which evidence suggests that this has occurred, specifically for relative advantage and compatibility. This article seeks to better understand the risks of mechanistic scale reuse within the information systems field, with a specific focus on the relative advantage and compatibility constructs. We review the information systems literature focusing on IT adoption and diffusion, examining the theoretical and empirical relationships between relative advantage and compatibility. Evidence from this review indicates that there may be both conceptual and empirical overlap between the two, which has led to inconsistent empirical and theoretical treatment of the constructs across studies. We also report an empirical examination of the domain coverage of the scales, which provides evidence that the scales a) exhibit a high degree of conceptual and empirical overlap and b) only represent a subset of their full conceptualization. We offer recommendations for researchers who wish to use these constructs in future work. © 2008, Authors. All rights reserved

The After Times: College Students’ Desire to Continue with Distance Learning Post Pandemic

Distance learning, already a topic of interest among higher education administrators and faculty, took on new significance during the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic when face-to-face classes worldwide abruptly shifted online. Many students who had never taken classes online had to either engage in distance learning or withdraw from their classes. An interesting question arises from this situation: will these students continue to take classes online when circumstances no longer require them to do so? In this paper, we investigate factors that may influence college students’ intentions to continue with distance learning once they no longer have to do so. We developed a model based on social cognitive theory and social cognitive career theory and tested it using data from surveying 525 college students who took distance learning classes. Results indicate that personal and environmental factors drive intentions to continue with distance learning through their impact on distance learning perceived performance and satisfaction. We discuss our findings’ implications for practice and future research