THE CHALLENGES IN IMPLEMENTING BUILDING INFORMATION MODEL (BIM) FOR SME’S CONTRACTOR IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
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Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a technology that is currently gaining momentum within the construction industry as interoperability issue is becoming more and more important in relative to the quality and productivity of the industry. BIM is defined as a modelling technology and associated set of processes to produce, communicate, and analyse building models throughout the entire project’s lifecycle. Although there is bound of benefits that gained from the BIM application, the SME’s contractor still reluctant to deploy the technology in delivering its services. The objectives set out in this research are to examine issues and challenges faced by SME’s in adopting BIM in construction industry; to determine the potential solution in implementing BIM for SME’s contractor; and to identify the advantages of how BIM can give a good impact on productivity in the construction industry. The methodology adopted for this research was quantitative method using the questionnaire survey. Convenience sampling was used where the respondents were recommended by experts and SME’s contractor company/firm. The results concluded that: for the issues and challenges, the cost to implement BIM in a company where the highest rank scored, and for the potential solution, the government should provide awareness and motivation programme has been chosen by the respondents to be a top solution. And last for the advantages, the respondents agree that improved cost estimating at each project stage was the best advantages. It was found that BIM can be made an optional or a compulsory subject in the architecture, engineering and construction education curriculum for all undergraduate architecture, engineering and construction students before they go abroad into the world of the construction industry.
