A Study on Adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM) for Sustainability

Jan, Tze Yuh (2022) A Study on Adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM) for Sustainability. Final Year Project (Bachelor), Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.

Text RQS#Jan Tze Yuh#18WVR03388 - TZE YUH JAN.pdf Restricted to Registered users only Download (2MB)

Abstract

As Malaysia continues to grow, the construction sector which serves one of the most significant sectors in economic growth of a nation, the demand of buildings and infrastructure increases drastically to cater for the rising needs of commercial, housing, industrial, medical and education uses. However, construction requires a high amount of power, which generates by-products that are unfriendly to the environment. This forms a threat in the long-term development of Malaysia, as the growing economic needs and population will further require a plan which can sustain the growth. In order to curb this issue, sustainable construction is implemented to promote less generation of by-products and the improvement of the lifecycle of the building. However, many challenges and flaws surfaced as the application of sustainable construction is difficult using the traditional construction practices in Malaysia, the benefit and potential of sustainable construction are constrained. As the technology advances, building information modelling (BIM) shows immense potential to be incorporated into construction enabling better construction environment, which can be further adopted for sustainability. This research shall identify the approaches of BIM to be used to achieve sustainability, as well as the benefits and barriers in the adoption. The frequency distribution was used on all the questions and all statements or subjects were agreed by the majority of the respondents. The Chi-square of independence test did on the hypothesis of whether possessing experience in adopting BIM for sustainability would affect the opinion towards certain BIM-based sustainable analysis methods, which found no significant association between the two variables.