A Study on Implementation of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in Malaysian Construction Industry

Ku, Qian Yi (2020) A Study on Implementation of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in Malaysian Construction Industry. Final Year Project (Bachelor), Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.

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Abstract

In these few years, the technology is getting advanced. Construction industry has started to implement and adopt Building Information Modeling (BIM) software. BIM software can be used by Architect, Engineer and Quantity Surveyors. BIM was developed to increase efficiency and collaboration within the construction industry. However, implementation and adoption of BIM is still slow in Malaysia. There is a fear that the rise of BIM and rise of automation could eradicate the traditional practices of estimating and measurement and eventually the role of the Quantity Surveyors. The objectives of this research study are to identify the benefits of implementation and adoption of BIM in construction industry, the challenges faced by Quantity Surveyors with adoption of BIM and the effective ways to promote adoption of BIM among Quantity Surveyors in Malaysia. The methodologies that will be applied for this research is starts with using literature review to identify the benefits of implementation and adoption of BIM in construction industry, the challenges faced by Quantity Surveyors with adoption of BIM and the effective ways to promote adoption of BIM among Quantity Surveyors in Malaysia. This is followed by distributions of questionnaire forms towards the Architect, Engineer and Quantity Surveyors from Consultancy backgrounds in Penang for the first, second and third objectives. Questionnaire survey is conducted to collect the response from the professionals in order to achieve the objectives of this research study. The data were then will be analyzed using Cronbach’s Alpha analysis and Descriptive analysis. All data collected will be analysed into a form of percentage and statistics by using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software. The findings indicate that the most agreed benefits of implementation and adoption of BIM in construction industry are improve visualization and construction planning and monitoring and speed up cost estimating and BQ processes and enhance project budgeting. The findings for second objective indicate that the most agreed challenges faced by Quantity Surveyors with adoption of BIM are a lot of training programmes, seminar and workshop needed to attend, employment of Quantity Surveyors reduced and teamwork and collaboration. However the findings for third objective indicate that the effective ways to promote adoption of BIM among Quantity Surveyors in Malaysia on mandatory use of BIM in projects, add BIM as a compulsory subject for Quantity Surveying courses in college or university and Government provide subsidy for construction companies to purchase hardware and software and promote by ‘‘myBIM centre’’ are most agreed by the majority of respondents. This research study could help to improve the awareness on BIM software and some knowledge to promote adoption of BIM among Quantity Surveyors in Malaysia.