The barriers factors and driving forces for BIM implementation in Malaysian AEC companies

The emergence of high technology in the built environment industry has caused BIM (Building Information Modelling) to become one of the processes that are sought by the construction industry players to enhance and improves the project lifecycle. Previous research showed that BIM implementation had given positive impact to the return of investment (ROI), productivity, lessen disputes between the construction players, saving in construction cost and decrease the risk of project delay which crucial in delivering a project on time. However, the vast majority of AEC companies not interested in BIM because of obstacles and barriers that they need to face in the process of adopting BIM practice. Due to that, this study focusses on investigating the barriers factors in BIM implementation by Malaysian AEC construction industry and identifying the driving forces available to overcome the BIM implementation issues in Malaysia. This study used a questionnaire survey approach for data collection and analyzed it using SPSS. As a result, the critical barrier factors faced by Malaysian AEC companies such as organization cultures, technology, and government recognition are identified. Meanwhile, in term of driven forces to overcome the BIM implementation issues, proper BIM guidelines or standard for BIM requirement has been identified as a crucial factor for successful implementation. Furthermore, BIM Fund also has been found as one of the driven forces for successful BIM implementation where it can help the AEC companies to cover the cost for training, consultancy services, software purchase and hardware for business and project. Drawn specifically within the Malaysian AEC companies in Penang and Kuala Lumpur, these findings provide a basis for fostering the implementation of BIM practice for better project performance

Implementation of performance based contracting in Malaysia

Performance based contracting (PBC) has been used for several years in other countries.This procurement approach however can be considered new in Malaysia.In the past, this type of procurement was popular in lines such as production, maintenance, military, supply and service businesses.This paper studies about the challenges, benefits, tools, strategies and aspects of PBC that can be adopted from other countries and relates it for the purpose of improving Malaysian construction industry.Using outcomes from a series of open-ended interviews as well as from theoretical literature review, this paper also explores both success and failure factors of PBC and suggests a way in which it can be used in Malaysian construction industry. Finding from interviews indicates that Malaysian status of PBC implementation is not as expected. People are aware of PBC but the implementation is not well enough and it relates to the challenges from external and internal causes.However, tools like financial management and services improvement from PBC as well as encouragement and spread of awareness can be used to improve Malaysian construction industry