Factors Affecting the Adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the Malaysian Construction Industry

Gam, Horng Tat (2020) Factors Affecting the Adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the Malaysian Construction Industry. Final Year Project (Bachelor), Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.

Text Copy of RQS#Gam Horng Tat#16WVR12775.pdf Restricted to Registered users only Download (1MB)

Abstract

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is consider as a new technology in Malaysian construction industry and BIM helps to speed up and facilitate the construction process. BIM is defined as a modelling technology and associated set of processes to produce, communicate and analyses the building models throughout the entire project. However, the adoption of BIM technology in Malaysia construction industry is still consider very low although there are tons of benefits gained from the BIM technology. The objective of this research is to to determine the significant barrier of adopting BIM by Malaysian construction players. Besides, the study also helps to investigate the key benefit of adopting BIM in Malaysian construction industry. Meanwhile, this study will identify the availability of resources to implement BIM in Malaysian construction industry. The data collected by using questionnaire survey form. 150 sets of questionnaire survey form is distributed to developer and contractor to identify all of the objectives. Data that are collected is used for analysis to get the findings. Data collected shown that based on the finding, most of the respondents feel that the biggest barrier that contributed most to this low BIM implementing rate in Malaysia construction industry is high BIM implementation cost on software aspects and also lack of demand and disinterest of BIM technology from clients. Hence, Malaysia’s government should assist those company with subsidies or incentive in order to encourage them to implement BIM technology. Malaysia’s government should promote more about the benefits from BIM technology.