Low Adoption Level of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Malaysian Construction Industry

Chua, Jin Wei (2022) Low Adoption Level of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Malaysian Construction Industry. Final Year Project (Bachelor), Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.

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Abstract

As the Information Technology (IT) is getting advanced in these days, the tools and technologies utilised in the construction industry have also been changed. In the last 30 years, Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been introduced globally to improve the efficiency in managing the construction projects and to improve the collaboration and communication between the stakeholders involved in the construction project. Even though there are a lot of recognised advantages that can be obtained through the adoption of BIM technology due to its outstanding functions which other ICT software is unable to provide, but the adoption rate of BIM technology in Malaysian construction industry is still comparatively lower as compared to other developed countries. Therefore, in order to tackle this problem, this research was conducted to determine the advantages of implementing BIM in construction industry, to identify the factors causing low implementation of BIM in Malaysian construction industry and to recommend ways to encourage the usage of BIM in Malaysian construction industry. This research was carried out based on cross sectional study design where the data will only be collected once from the respondents. In addition, this research is a quantitative research, and the questionnaire survey form was used as the primary instrument in collecting the required data for this research. The research process began with literature review in order to identify the advantages of implementing BIM in Malaysian construction industry, the factors causing low implementation of BIM in Malaysian construction industry and the ways to encourage the usage of BIM in Malaysian construction industry that have been highlighted in the previous research. After that, a set of questionnaire survey form was drafted and pretested by 5 respondents before distributing to the actual respondents. After taking into consideration of all feedbacks from the respondents in the pilot test, the drafted questionnaire survey form was amended and the final questionnaire survey form was distributed to the actual samples in order to collect the responses from the samples and to achieve the research the objectives. Besides, the respondents for this research were selected based on purposive sampling which is one of the non-probability sampling methods. The study population for this research was the Malaysian construction industry while the samples for this research were the construction stakeholders involved in the construction industry including Developer, Contractor, Architect, Engineer, Quantity Surveyor and so on whose organization is located within Malaysia. In this research, there were 108 responses were collected from the respondents. Next, the data collected was analysed using frequency analysis, reliability test and descriptive analysis with the aid of Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) 21.0 software and the findings were presented in the form of tables, pie charts and bar charts for the ease of understanding. As a result, this study found that most of the respondents have the knowledge and experience in adopting BIM. However, more than half of the respondents’ organization are not adopting BIM currently. Hence, it showed that the adoption rate of BIM in Malaysia is still below average. In terms of the first research objective, the findings indicated that the most agreed advantage of implementing BIM was the provision of a clearer project visualization to the construction stakeholders during preconstruction stage. Moreover, the findings for the second research objective indicated that the most agreed factor causing low implementation of BIM in Malaysian construction industry was the financial consideration. Lastly, the findings for the third research objective indicated that the most agreed way to encourage the usage of BIM in Malaysian construction industry was the introduction of BIM technology in the educational institutions. In short, this research will be able to provide knowledge about BIM technology to the stakeholders involved in the construction projects and to raise their awareness regarding the operation and the benefits of BIM technology so that the adoption rate of BIM in Malaysian construction industry can be improved in the future.