ADOPTION OF BUILDING INFORMATION MODELLING (BIM): FACTORS CONTRIBUTION AND BENEFITS

Abstract

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a technological breakthrough that is needed to modernize the construction industry which will increase the productivity and value across many stakeholder groups. It provides significant benefits towards the industry players but seems that it is not fully implemented yet in the Malaysian construction industry. There are limited studies conducted that investigate the benefits of BIM adoption in general. Hence, this study intended to analyse the benefits of BIM adoption in the construction industry within the Northern region of Malaysia which are Perlis, Kedah, Penang and Perak. Quantitative method had been used for this study by distributing questionnaires to the contractor company of G4 to G7 in the Northern region of Malaysia. All data obtained from the questionnaire distributed were then analysed by using IBM SPSS tools such as descriptive analysis and correlation analysis. The findings from the result obtained revealed that the benefits of BIM are in accordance with the project management knowledge areas while success factors are project delivery time, project cost and project quality. This study mainly focused on project time, cost and quality as the benefits of BIM adoption in Northern region of Malaysia, which have not been studied in past researches.