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Building Information Modelling (Bim) within the Australian construction related small and medium sized enterprises: awareness, practices and drivers

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posted on 2024-06-06, 11:59 authored by C Rodgers, MR Hosseini, N Chileshe, R Rameezdeen
Review of literature on BIM reveals a bias towards focusing on large companies and overlooking SMEs in Australia. To bridge this gap of knowledge, this study explores the level of awareness, practices and drivers of BIM among SMEs within the Australian construction industry through the lenses of theories of innovation diffusion in construction companies. In so doing, a questionnaire survey was administered and 41 responses received from these SMEs engaged in commercial, industrial and public works. Accordingly, seven face-to-face interviews were conducted to compensate for the small sample size and to expand the survey data in more depth. The findings brought to light that current knowledge of BIM in SMEs is one-sided and negatively biased with a tendency towards highlighting challenges and overlooking the advantages. Besides, a significant association was spotted between the awareness of values of BIM and the practices related with BIM in SMEs. Additionally, the most influential drivers for BIM were turned out to be all associated with economic gains for the business of the companies alongside clients' demands. Furthermore, it was revealed that practices associated with BIM and awareness of BIM are similar across different sizes of SMEs.

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Pagination

691-700

Location

Lincoln, England

Start date

2015-09-07

End date

2015-09-09

ISBN-13

9780955239090

Language

eng

Publication classification

E Conference publication, E1.1 Full written paper - refereed

Copyright notice

2015, Association of Researchers in Construction Management

Editor/Contributor(s)

Raiden A, Aboagye-Nimo E

Title of proceedings

ARCOM 2015 : Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Association of Researchers in Construction Management

Event

Association of Researchers in Construction Management. Annual Conference (31st : 2015 : Lincoln, England)

Publisher

ARCOM

Place of publication

Reading, Eng.

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