TY - GEN
T1 - Contextualizing the Institutional Changes in BIM-Based Construction
T2 - Construction Research Congress 2020: Project Management Controls, Materials, Contracts
AU - Ma, Xiaozhi
AU - Chan, Albert P.C.
AU - Owusu, Emmanuel Kingsford
AU - Xiong, Feng
AU - Dong, Na
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 American Society of Civil Engineers.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - As BIM diffuses into different aspects of the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC), the conventional project practices have been disrupted. In particular, projects experience a few obstacles and challenges to integrate BIM into the AEC process. This leads to hybrid AEC practice with BIM and non-BIM information processing. Such a situation can be chaotic with the institutional changes accompanied by the implementation of BIM in AEC projects. Focusing on this issue, the current study aims to identify BIM-invasion modes to AEC projects and contextualize the institutional changes in BIM-based construction. Initially, the possible institutional changes are identified and a theoretical framework to contextualize them is proposed through the review of literature. A following case study compares two projects with different BIM-invasion modes, captures the institutional changes, and verifies the theoretical framework. The case study also validates the major institutional elements related to BIM and demonstrates two BIM-invasion modes to the AEC projects. This research explains how the AEC project changes from an institutional perspective with the systematic implementation of BIM and provides implications to its organizational management. The primary implication is that the extensive use of BIM in AEC projects shall ensure that institutional changes are manageable.
AB - As BIM diffuses into different aspects of the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC), the conventional project practices have been disrupted. In particular, projects experience a few obstacles and challenges to integrate BIM into the AEC process. This leads to hybrid AEC practice with BIM and non-BIM information processing. Such a situation can be chaotic with the institutional changes accompanied by the implementation of BIM in AEC projects. Focusing on this issue, the current study aims to identify BIM-invasion modes to AEC projects and contextualize the institutional changes in BIM-based construction. Initially, the possible institutional changes are identified and a theoretical framework to contextualize them is proposed through the review of literature. A following case study compares two projects with different BIM-invasion modes, captures the institutional changes, and verifies the theoretical framework. The case study also validates the major institutional elements related to BIM and demonstrates two BIM-invasion modes to the AEC projects. This research explains how the AEC project changes from an institutional perspective with the systematic implementation of BIM and provides implications to its organizational management. The primary implication is that the extensive use of BIM in AEC projects shall ensure that institutional changes are manageable.
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M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85096788031
T3 - Construction Research Congress 2020: Project Management and Controls, Materials, and Contracts - Selected Papers from the Construction Research Congress 2020
SP - 1
EP - 10
BT - Construction Research Congress 2020
A2 - Grau, David
A2 - Tang, Pingbo
A2 - El Asmar, Mounir
PB - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Y2 - 8 March 2020 through 10 March 2020
ER -