An empirical investigation the adoption factors of building information modelling (BIM) from the perspective of Malaysian Civil And Structure Consultant Firms

The construction industry in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0) have to focus on high-technology jobs such as technological skill rather than labour-intensive approach and low-skilled job. But, most of the construction industries in Malaysia are using traditional approach which is labour-inte...

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Main Author:	Zahrizan, Zakaria
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2021
Subjects:	TA Engineering (General) Civil engineering (General)
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spelling	my-ump-ir.342792023-02-16T08:11:28Z An empirical investigation the adoption factors of building information modelling (BIM) from the perspective of Malaysian Civil And Structure Consultant Firms 2021-03 Zahrizan, Zakaria TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) The construction industry in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0) have to focus on high-technology jobs such as technological skill rather than labour-intensive approach and low-skilled job. But, most of the construction industries in Malaysia are using traditional approach which is labour-intensive approach and it has resulted in fragmentation issue among the project participants resulting less productivity and inefficiency in delivering the project. In order to tackle this issue, Building Information Modelling (BIM) can offer a platform to integrate between different parties in the construction industry. It also offers a lot of benefits to construction industry in term of productivity and efficiency. Even though there are a lot of benefits that can be gained by BIM utilisation and many efforts to increase the adoption of BIM in construction projects such as conducting the seminars, workshops and incentives but, the rate of BIM adoption by the Malaysian construction players is still low compared to other Asians countries. Therefore, there is a need to study the adoption factors within Malaysian construction industry that could facilitate the pace of BIM adoption in Malaysia especially from the perspective of civil and structure (C&S) consultant firms. Several studies had explored the way to increase the pace of BIM adoption from the perspective of architectures, facilities management, quantity surveyor and contractors, and very little effort to identify the adoption factors and its relationship that could facilitate the adoption of BIM especially from the perspective of C&S consultant firms. C&S consultant firm plays a vital role to ensure the design is constructible, operable and maintainable. Thus, the aim of this study is to examine the relationship between organizations, people and technology towards making decisions in adopting BIM from the perspective C&S consultant firm. In this study, qualitative and quantitative approaches have been utilised as research method to develop in-depth understanding of the happening by obtaining the views on the subject studied especially the current application of BIM in the Malaysian construction industry. At the same time, this study is conducted to explore what are the factors that affecting the adoption of BIM in the Malaysian construction industry. Lack of national guideline for implementing BIM, pressure from clients or governments and lacking of technical support from BIM experts are the vital challenges faced by the adopters besides having a higher cost of early investment in BIM technology. Analysis from multiple linear regression revealed the factors that have a strong relationship in influencing organisation to adopt BIM are; having a strong support from the top management, having a coercive pressure, having a clear BIM implementation plan, undergo training, having a BIM competency team, having a clear job specification for new roles, BIM technology must free from interoperability issue, less cost of technology, and the issue of compatibility. This study offers a new insight from the perspective of C&S consultant firms on the adoption of BIM and could improve the rate of BIM adoption. At the same time, it could fill the gap from previous studies by extending the study of BIM adoption by investigating from C&S consultant firm’s point of view and it complementing the overall view of BIM adoption from all participants. 2021-03 Thesis http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/34279/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/34279/1/An%20empirical%20investigation%20the%20adoption%20factors%20of%20building.wm.pdf pdf en public phd doctoral Universiti Malaysia Pahang Faculty of Civil Engineering Technology Haron, Ahmad Tarmizi
institution	Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah
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language	English
advisor	Haron, Ahmad Tarmizi
topic	TA Engineering (General) Civil engineering (General)
spellingShingle	TA Engineering (General) Civil engineering (General) Zahrizan, Zakaria An empirical investigation the adoption factors of building information modelling (BIM) from the perspective of Malaysian Civil And Structure Consultant Firms
description	The construction industry in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0) have to focus on high-technology jobs such as technological skill rather than labour-intensive approach and low-skilled job. But, most of the construction industries in Malaysia are using traditional approach which is labour-intensive approach and it has resulted in fragmentation issue among the project participants resulting less productivity and inefficiency in delivering the project. In order to tackle this issue, Building Information Modelling (BIM) can offer a platform to integrate between different parties in the construction industry. It also offers a lot of benefits to construction industry in term of productivity and efficiency. Even though there are a lot of benefits that can be gained by BIM utilisation and many efforts to increase the adoption of BIM in construction projects such as conducting the seminars, workshops and incentives but, the rate of BIM adoption by the Malaysian construction players is still low compared to other Asians countries. Therefore, there is a need to study the adoption factors within Malaysian construction industry that could facilitate the pace of BIM adoption in Malaysia especially from the perspective of civil and structure (C&S) consultant firms. Several studies had explored the way to increase the pace of BIM adoption from the perspective of architectures, facilities management, quantity surveyor and contractors, and very little effort to identify the adoption factors and its relationship that could facilitate the adoption of BIM especially from the perspective of C&S consultant firms. C&S consultant firm plays a vital role to ensure the design is constructible, operable and maintainable. Thus, the aim of this study is to examine the relationship between organizations, people and technology towards making decisions in adopting BIM from the perspective C&S consultant firm. In this study, qualitative and quantitative approaches have been utilised as research method to develop in-depth understanding of the happening by obtaining the views on the subject studied especially the current application of BIM in the Malaysian construction industry. At the same time, this study is conducted to explore what are the factors that affecting the adoption of BIM in the Malaysian construction industry. Lack of national guideline for implementing BIM, pressure from clients or governments and lacking of technical support from BIM experts are the vital challenges faced by the adopters besides having a higher cost of early investment in BIM technology. Analysis from multiple linear regression revealed the factors that have a strong relationship in influencing organisation to adopt BIM are; having a strong support from the top management, having a coercive pressure, having a clear BIM implementation plan, undergo training, having a BIM competency team, having a clear job specification for new roles, BIM technology must free from interoperability issue, less cost of technology, and the issue of compatibility. This study offers a new insight from the perspective of C&S consultant firms on the adoption of BIM and could improve the rate of BIM adoption. At the same time, it could fill the gap from previous studies by extending the study of BIM adoption by investigating from C&S consultant firm’s point of view and it complementing the overall view of BIM adoption from all participants.
format	Thesis
qualification_name	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.)
qualification_level	Doctorate
author	Zahrizan, Zakaria
author_facet	Zahrizan, Zakaria
author_sort	Zahrizan, Zakaria
title	An empirical investigation the adoption factors of building information modelling (BIM) from the perspective of Malaysian Civil And Structure Consultant Firms
title_short	An empirical investigation the adoption factors of building information modelling (BIM) from the perspective of Malaysian Civil And Structure Consultant Firms
title_full	An empirical investigation the adoption factors of building information modelling (BIM) from the perspective of Malaysian Civil And Structure Consultant Firms
title_fullStr	An empirical investigation the adoption factors of building information modelling (BIM) from the perspective of Malaysian Civil And Structure Consultant Firms
title_full_unstemmed	An empirical investigation the adoption factors of building information modelling (BIM) from the perspective of Malaysian Civil And Structure Consultant Firms
title_sort	empirical investigation the adoption factors of building information modelling (bim) from the perspective of malaysian civil and structure consultant firms
granting_institution	Universiti Malaysia Pahang
granting_department	Faculty of Civil Engineering Technology
publishDate	2021
url	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/34279/1/An%20empirical%20investigation%20the%20adoption%20factors%20of%20building.wm.pdf
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An empirical investigation the adoption factors of building information modelling (BIM) from the perspective of Malaysian Civil And Structure Consultant Firms

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