Assessing the success of BIM implementation

Dowsett, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3858-9036 (2016) Assessing the success of BIM implementation. EngD thesis, University of Reading.

Abstract/Summary

Much attention has been paid to the measurement of BIM benefits in both industry and academic spheres that, in most cases, have proven its benefits and prompted an increase in BIM adoption. However, BIM is a process synonymous with collaboration that, in the context of construction, requires the reconfiguration of a complex set of actors, technologies and activities into an information system (IS) that can facilitate this and produce the anticipated benefits. Important links between implementation practices, support and benefits have received little focus and it is these interdependencies that this thesis attempts to address. The principle argument presented is for a more comprehensive approach to benefits assessment extending it beyond the normative technologically deterministic cost-benefit approaches dominant in many existing methods.