BIM Anatomy - An Investigation into Implementation Prerequisites
type: CreativeWork
description: This thesis presents the results of an investigation into BIM implementation prerequisites emerging as a set of procedural supporting mechanisms that may enable design, construction and operating (DCO) organisations to advance their deployment of Building Information Modelling (BIM) technology, and improve construction project outcomes. Today, BIM is centre-stage within the construction sector the world-over. It is seen as a means to overcome those age-old difficulties in communications and information management that have plagued the industry for centuries. Where other industries have succeeded in leveraging significant benefits from IT solutions, the construction industry has struggled to achieve similar productivity gains for practical and methodological reasons. The utilisation of BIM has become a strategic area of development that may enable organisations to create new business opportunities and more efficient methods of creating, coordinating and sharing facility information through design, construction and operating phases. Whilst BIM has shown promise elsewhere, in Sweden difficulties in moving forward are arising in part as a result of a lack of national guidelines and consistent approach. Here it is conjectured that development in prerequisite standards, information delivery specifications and collaboration support may offer the conditions necessary for success. This work aims to develop methods and processes that support organisations in their use of BIM technologies with the purpose of solving collaboration issues and information exchange obstacles. It is focused primarily on requirements through design phases with close cognisance to the downstream use of construction data. A number of case projects are employed together with industry interviews and workshops to enable theories to be tested that focus on information exchange requirements and unravelling collaboration hindrances. The research method entailed working directly with practitioners to identif…
abstract: This thesis presents the results of an investigation into BIM implementation prerequisites emerging as a set of procedural supporting mechanisms that may enable design, construction and operating (DCO) organisations to advance their deployment of Building Information Modelling (BIM) technology, and improve construction project outcomes. Today, BIM is centre-stage within the construction sector the world-over. It is seen as a means to overcome those age-old difficulties in communications and information management that have plagued the industry for centuries. Where other industries have succeeded in leveraging significant benefits from IT solutions, the construction industry has struggled to achieve similar productivity gains for practical and methodological reasons. The utilisation of BIM has become a strategic area of development that may enable organisations to create new business opportunities and more efficient methods of creating, coordinating and sharing facility information through design, construction and operating phases. Whilst BIM has shown promise elsewhere, in Sweden difficulties in moving forward are arising in part as a result of a lack of national guidelines and consistent approach. Here it is conjectured that development in prerequisite standards, information delivery specifications and collaboration support may offer the conditions necessary for success. This work aims to develop methods and processes that support organisations in their use of BIM technologies with the purpose of solving collaboration issues and information exchange obstacles. It is focused primarily on requirements through design phases with close cognisance to the downstream use of construction data. A number of case projects are employed together with industry interviews and workshops to enable theories to be tested that focus on information exchange requirements and unravelling collaboration hindrances. The research method entailed working directly with practitioners to identif…
author: Hooper, Martin
language: eng
keywords: Civil Engineering, BIM, Building Information Modelling, strategic planning, information exchange, collaboration.
date published: 2012
date modified: 2026-07-24T02:59:49Z
provider: University of Lund
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Lund University, Faculty of Engineering