RESEARCH ARTICLE
Limitation Factors of Building Information Modeling (BIM) Implementation
Mohammed A. Enshassi1, Khalid A. Al Hallaq1, Bassam A. Tayeh1, *
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2019Volume: 13
First Page: 189
Last Page: 196
Publisher ID: TOBCTJ-13-189
DOI: 10.2174/1874836801913010189
Article History:
Received Date: 16/05/2019Revision Received Date: 19/07/2019
Acceptance Date: 26/07/2019
Electronic publication date: 30/09/2019
Collection year: 2019
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background:
Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been recommended as the best tool to improve construction processes by many researchers. However, most construction companies do not adopt BIM because there are many limitations slowing BIM adoption.
Objective:
The aim of this paper is to investigate the factors that limit BIM implementation in the construction industry.
Methods:
To investigate the research objectives, a quantitative approach was adopted and a structured questionnaire was designed. A total of sixty-eight copies of the questionnaire were distributed and sixty-five of them were satisfactorily completed, making the total response rate = 95.58%. Snowball sampling method helped to obtain a high rate of response and thus increase accuracy.
Results and Conclusion:
BIM limitation factors were divided into five categories. The results illustrated that the personnel category was ranked as the most important, while the legal category was ranked as the least important. Findings showed that requirement of large culture change within the organization, lack of senior management support, lack of knowledge on how to implement BIM, lack of staff experience and skills, and need to change in workflows to comply with the new requirements were ranked as the most important factors that obstruct BIM implementation.
