A Review of application building information modeling (BIM) during pre-construction stage: retrospective and future directions

Pre-construction is one of the biggest areas of risk and uncertainty in construction project as it deals with subsurface ground conditions information. The amount of detail data needed in pre-construction especially for existing data modelling and site analysis should be sufficient enough to ensure that significant risks could not reasonably be anticipated. Current practicing method in interpreting data during this stage tasks reveal limitation. Construction industry faced many obstacles due to the depends on the traditional practice; paper-based document which missing and redundant data always happened. In recent years, there has been a shift in construction where people move to BIM application because of its potential to reduce the problem faced by infrastructure world. BIM has become a successful technology and widely popular in the construction world especially in developed countries because of its potential. Nowadays, people are moving one step ahead in BIM which is adoption of BIM during pre-construction stage. Thus, this paper review studies centered on BIM-integrated modelling during preconstruction stage. But there is lack of practical researches have been made during this stage. Although a large number of studies on BIM have been conducted in the past decade, a lack of consensus remains among researchers and practitioners regarding the applications of BIM during pre-construction stage, the availability of subsequent data integration tool for geotechnical activity. A comprehensive literature review was conducted for data collection and analysis. After in-depth review of journal articles widely cover the application of BIM, this study summarizes an overview and critical reflection of geotechnical data integration using BIM during pre-construction stage. The results are useful for the identification of research clusters and topics in the BIM community

Revolutionizing the Future of the Construction Industry: Strategizing and Redefining Challenges

The construction industry is ripe for disruption. With the vast pace of new technologies innovating the whole life cycle of construction, the revolution seems vital. The ideas of digitization and digitalization in Industrial Revolution 4.0 are currently entering the market in most industries including the construction industry. While most other industries have undergone tremendous changes recently, the construction industry has been reluctant about plenarily embracing the newly emerging technological adoption. Varying sophistication of construction, this paper was empirically evaluating large construction firms’ point of view on challenges of the construction industry in the era of Revolution 4.0 using survey data form. The findings reveal that construction companies need to deal with the manifold PESTEL (political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal) challenges. By adopting the Revolution 4.0 hindered by lack of policies, financial problem, limited demand for innovation among large economic players, lack of trust towards foreign partners, and limited adaptability of foreign software. Clearly, this paper helps scholars and industry players to redefine the development of the construction industry into detailed strategic plans or policies in the future. In a nutshell, transforming the construction industry into digitization and digitalization might confront few challenges but the longterm benefits obtained throughout application should not be forgotten

Adoption of construction industry 4.0 among small and medium sized contractor in Malaysia

All industries are shifting towards new revolution due to the faster technological advancement including construction industry itself. Manufacturing and banking are some of the industries that ahead in term of the new revolution which known as Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). Whereas construction players still hesitant in moving towards this direction. Therefore, the objectives of this study are to identify the level of adoption of 4IR technologies in construction industry and to identify the perceived performance impact by using quantitative methods. A total of 50 questionnaires were distributed; however, only 76% (38) respondents answered the question completely. Collected data were analyzed using score factor and weighting factor. Based on the findings, the awareness level towards 4IR in construction industry is in the moderate state. In addition, Internet of Things (IoT) is the highly used technology in the construction industry. Besides, most of the construction organizations need to address the 4IR impact towards perceived technology, materials and tools; processes and operations; strategies and business models; people, organizations and cultures; rules and policies; and public procurement. 4IR adoption mainly hampered by system shortages, financial problems, limited demand for innovation among SME players, lack of trust in foreign partners and limited ability to adapt foreign software. In short, the process of transforming the construction industry into digitalization and digitization might be hindered by lot of problems, but the long-term benefits gained throughout the application should not be forgotten

Potential review on energy analysis attributes for in 6 dimension application in Building Information Modelling (BIM)

Rapid advancement on digitalisation is changing the way buildings are planned, designed, built and managed nowadays. A collaborative computer-based environment known as Building Information Modelling (BIM) is one of the advancements introduced as a platform to boost up the efficiency of the construction industry. However, poorly designed, constructed and managed building or infrastructure contribute to environmental issues such as CO2 emissions and energy consumption. Thus, attachment of sustainability element in BIM not only increase the efficiency of the project but also can help to plan, design and construct in a more environmentally friendly way. A study on the overall energy use throughout the construction life cycle is needed to identify the most critical stages and to develop energy-reduction strategies via BIM. Thus, this paper provides an intensive review of BIM understanding, its energy analysis practices in the construction phase and existing building environmental assessment tools in BIM. To achieve this, an in-depth review was carried out focusing on the content analysis of a few journal articles related to BIM, energy analysis and sustainability assessment tool. Hence, this paper contributes by discussing the wide variety of building environmental assessment instruments and categorising existing tools to be used in the BIM