BIM readiness in Sri Lankan architectural engineering and construction (AEC) industry

Abstract

Construction industry highly influences on improving the infrastructure industry of a country. Architectural Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry always focuses on reducing inefficiencies, enhance the productivity and increasing the communication. Construction industry is highly turbulent and complex in nature as number of suppliers, employees, materials and machinery work in a construction site. One of the major challenges in the construction industry is communication and coordination between different disciplines involved in the industry like authorities, local & foreign governments, financial authorities & institutes, engineers, architect, lawyers, quantity surveyors, contractors, suppliers, community and trades. Building Information Modeling (BIM) is currently the most common denomination for a new way of approaching the design, construction, and maintenance of buildings. According to the literature and industrial reports BIM implementation is in primary stage in Sri Lanka. The researcher aims to develop suitable framework to assess BIM readiness of construction organizations. The researcher followed both interpretivism and positivism to conduct this research study. Because BIM is currently on a radical development arround the world and also is a novel idea to Sri Lankan industry. The researcher identified several factors such as importance of management, importance of process, importance of people and importance of technology which infleunces on level of BIM readiness. Both qualitative and quantitative data were used to understand the practice of BIM in Sri Lanka and collect employees’ view. The research result stated that all the factors such as importance of management, importance of process, importance of people and importance of technology hig