A MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT FOR THE TECHNOLOGY EXTENT AND PROCESS EFFICIENCY IN BIM ENABLED CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gozde Basak Ozturk
Keyword(s):  
Technology Use ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Measurement Instrument ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Process Efficiency ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Building Information

Technology use in all fields can play an important role as the booster in creating lean and efficient processes. Technology use may result in reduced duplications and delays in workflows while helping to speed up task realization. Building Information Modeling (BIM) enhances knowledge share, use and reuse for better collaboration, communication, coordination, and monitoring as a knowledge base platform. BIM enhanced construction projects may positively affect the process efficiency. The aim of this paper is to define a measurement instrument of BIM usage as technology enhancer tool and of process efficiency of construction projects. Research leans on the prominent literature to concrete the measurement instrument. A survey is established to construction project professionals to understand the technology efficiency and process efficiency in BIM enabled construction projects. The research based on the related data collected from 92 professionals experienced both in traditional project delivery methods and BIM enabled construction projects. The respondents are the construction industry experts comprised of construction project managers, BIM managers, and BIM implementation experts (architects, civil engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers etc.). Data is analyzed and tested with structural equation modeling software to verify the proposed measurement instrument. The technology efficiency and process efficiency factors for BIM enabled construction projects are tested and refined. Research findings present the measurement instrument for both technology and process efficiency in BIM enabled construction projects.

scholarly journals An Empirical Study on the Acceptance of 4D BIM in EPC Projects in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pan Gong ◽  
Ningshuang Zeng ◽  
Kunhui Ye ◽  
Markus König
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Behavior Pattern ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Building Information

The engineering-procurement-construction (EPC) method has the potential to help construction projects achieve sustainable performance, e.g., the contractor’s early involvement, cost savings, and a reduced schedule. However, high uncertainties and complexities are contained in EPC projects. 4D BIM (Building Information Modeling) with abilities to simplify the time and space relationships of construction activities and support multi-party information sharing is beneficial to EPC project management. The behavior pattern of the project personnel toward accepting 4D BIM information systems or tools needs to be explored. Therefore, a research model of the acceptance of 4D BIM in EPC projects with eight latent constructs is proposed through a literature review of technology acceptance theories. Data is collected from a questionnaire survey and interviews. Research hypotheses are examined using PLS-SEM (partial least squares-structural equation modeling). Empirical evidence is collected from China, and implications to the developing countries facing the challenge of developing a technology-intensive construction industry are provided: (1) Adopting 4D BIM in the EPC project is beneficial; (2) the task-technology fit plays a leading role in technology acceptance; (3) the management incentive is inefficient at the operational stage. Suggestions for future research on 4D BIM acceptance in complex construction projects with abundant data and alternative models are provided.

scholarly journals Research for Risk Management of Construction Projects in Taiwan

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2034
Author(s):  
Chien-Liang Lin ◽  
Bey-Kun Chen
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Sustainable Operation ◽  
Management Procedure ◽  
Risk Managers

Risks inevitably exist in all stages of a project. In a construction project, which is highly dynamic and complex, risk factors affect the expected achievement rates of the three main performance goals, namely schedule, cost, and quality. A comprehensive risk management procedure requires three crucial steps: risk confirmation, analysis, and treatment. Risk analysis is the core of risk management. Through structural equation modeling, this study developed a risk analysis model that takes a different perspective and considered the occurrence probability of risk events and the extent to which these events affect a project. The contractor dimension was discovered to exert the strongest influence on an overall project, followed by the subcontractor and design dimensions. This paper proposes a novel construction project risk analysis model, which considers the entire project. The proposed model can be used as a reference for risk managers to make decisions about project risks, so as to achieve the ultimate goal of saving resources and the sustainable operation of the construction project.

Contractual Complexity in Construction Projects

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenqian Wang ◽  
Yongqiang Chen ◽  
Shuibo Zhang ◽  
Yu Wang
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Scale Development ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Modeling Technique ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Empirical Testing ◽  
Item Scale

Building on the multifunctional perspective from current contract theory, we conceptualize contractual complexity as a three-dimensional construct to depict the explicitness and elaborateness of control, coordination, and adaptation provisions in a construction project contract. A 13-item scale with construction project features is developed for measuring the different aspects of contractual complexity following rigorous scale development procedures. Using the structural equation modeling technique, empirical testing results demonstrate that all of the three components contribute significantly to contractual complexity. Further analysis indicated that treating contractual complexity in the three-functional way outperforms the unidimensional one regarding power to explain satisfaction and strong-form opportunism.

scholarly journals Longitudinal Study on Construction Organization’s BIM Acceptance

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (15) ◽  
pp. 5358
Author(s):  
Seulki Lee ◽  
Jungho Yu
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Construction Organizations ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Construction Organization ◽  
Acceptance Model

The Korean domestic market is focused on the introduction of BIM (Building Information Modeling) owing to an influx of investment due to increased interest and mandatory application of BIM. However, the rate of BIM introduction is high, while BIM user proficiency is low. Against these problems, the authors proposed an acceptance model for BIM in construction organizations in 2012. As the number of BIM application cases increases and the number of BIM-trained users increases as time goes on, BIM users’ positive perception of BIM values are expected to increase, which may change the BIM acceptance mechanism. Therefore, we conducted a longitudinal study of the 2012 BIM acceptance model against 2019 data to estimate changes in factors affecting BIM acceptance attitudes as well as the mechanism of the relationships between factors over time spent using the technology. To generalize the results, the respondents were spread across construction sites. The data obtained 119 samples from a sample of experienced users of BIM. We used AMOS 21.0 for hypothesis testing of structural equation modeling (SEM), and the 2019 BIM acceptance model was compared against the 2012 acceptance model using an independent sample t-test. As a result, it was confirmed that the 2012 BIM acceptance model is still suitable for describing the BIM acceptance mechanism of the construction organization, and there was a difference between the 2012 model and the 2019 model. This seems to have changed the mechanism of BIM acceptance by being change perception of BIM users as time goes on. The results of this study can be used to establish a BIM activation strategy for each BIM acceptance stage and are expected to be applicable to establishing a BIM activation strategy for construction organizations or countries with similar BIM acceptance stage.

scholarly journals Integration of Cost and Work Breakdown Structures in the Management of Construction Projects

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Cerezo-Narváez ◽  
Andrés Pastor-Fernández ◽  
Manuel Otero-Mateo ◽  
Pablo Ballesteros-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Response Analysis ◽  
Scope Management ◽  
Project Objectives

Scope management allows project managers to react when a project underperforms regarding schedule, budget, and/or quality at the execution stage. Scope management can also minimize project changes and budget omissions, as well as improve the accuracy of project cost estimates and risk responses. For scope management to be effective, though, it needs to rely on a robust work breakdown structure (WBS). A robust WBS hierarchically and faithfully reflects all project tasks and work packages so that projects are easier to manage. If done properly, the WBS also allows meeting the project objectives while delivering the project on time, on budget, and with the required quality. This paper analyzes whether the integration of a cost breakdown structure (CBS) can lead to the generation of more robust WBSs in construction projects. Over the last years, some international organizations have standardized and harmonized different cost classification systems (e.g., ISO 12006-2, ISO 81346-12, OmniClass, CoClass, UniClass). These cost databases have also been introduced into building information modeling (BIM) frameworks. We hypothesize that in BIM environments, if these CBSs are used to generate the project WBS, several advantages are gained such as sharper project definition. This enhanced project definition reduces project contradictions at both planning and execution stages, anticipates potential schedule and budget deviations, improves resource allocation, and overall it allows a better response to potential project risks. The hypothesis that the use of CBSs can generate more robust WBSs is tested by the response analysis of a questionnaire survey distributed among construction practitioners and project managers. By means of structural equation modeling (SEM), the correlation (agreement) and perception differences between two 250-respondent subsamples (technical project staff vs. project management staff) are also discussed. Results of this research support the use of CBSs by construction professionals as a basis to generate WBSs for enhanced project management (PM).

scholarly journals TINGKAT IMPLEMENTASI DAN HAMBATAN ADOPSI BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING PADA PELAKU PROYEK KONSTRUKSI DI BALI

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
I Made Agoes Megapathi ◽  
I Gusti Agung Adnyana Putera ◽  
Nyoman Martha Jaya
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Implementation Strategies ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Measurement Variability ◽  
Importance Index ◽  
Building Information

Many countries have established implementation strategies for the use of BIM in construction projects which have resulted in the widespread adoption of BIM. To catch up, the Ministry of PUPR has launched the Indonesia Digital Construction Roadmap 2017-2024 through 4 stages, namely the Adoption, Digitalization, Collaboration, and Integration stages. However, currently at the Adoption stage of the Roadmap, it is still focused on only a few PUPR infrastructure projects. This is due to problems such as the unavailability of policies and regulations for implementing BIM for the entire PUPR infrastructure sector, the lack of mastery of BIM from both Users and Service Providers, the project scale is not yet massive so that the price of BIM software is felt to be still burdening the Provider. This study aims to investigate the mastery of BIM through a study of the level of use, implementation, and identification of the dominant barriers to BIM adoption, especially for construction project actors in Bali. This research is expected to help construction industry practitioners to understand the challenges of BIM adoption in Bali. Data collection was carried out by survey method using a questionnaire. Respondents were selected using the purposive sampling method, namely experts in construction projects in Bali. The method of analysis is descriptive statistics which includes central tendency measurement, variability measurement, and the Relative Importance Index (RII). The survey results from all respondents showed that the adoption rate of BIM for construction project actors in Bali was 19%. Level of BIM implementation of construction project actors in Bali were 89% at BIM level 1 and 11% were at BIM level 2. The dominant obstacles in BIM adoption are the high cost of adoption, lack of experts, lack of government role in encouraging BIM adoption, difficulty changing work processes and there is no standard and protocol in applying BIM in the project.

scholarly journals Critical Success Factors in Developing Collaborative Design-Build Project Team to Improve Project Performance

2018 ◽  
Vol 159 ◽  
pp. 01025 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afrizal Nursin ◽  
Yusuf Latief ◽  
Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Project Team ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Critical Success

To complete a construction project, it takes the cooperation and collaboration of stakeholder involved in construction projects to obtain optimum project performance. Problems that frequently occur in construction projects is the lack of cooperation, lack of trust, ineffective communication, lack of visualization of the planned buildings and different relationships between stakeholders that project performance is not optimal. To overcome these problems need to develop a model of collaboration between stakeholders in a construction project. The purpose of this research is to identify the critical success factors of the collaboration of design and build construction project team so that can understand the influence of collaboration model to collaboration performance with the geographic, professional, stakeholder, and ethnic cultural boundary spanners in design and build construction project in Indonesia. This research uses factor analysis and variable relation with Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) method. The results found that geographical and ethical boundaries are influencing collaborative performance significantly.

scholarly journals Investigating the Critical Factors of Professionals’ BIM Adoption Behavior Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 3022
Author(s):  
Zezhou Wu ◽  
Mingyang Jiang ◽  
Heng Li ◽  
Xiaochun Luo ◽  
Xiaoying Li
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Planned Behavior ◽  
Planned Behavior ◽  
Latent Variables ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Building Information

In recent years, building information modeling (BIM) has been receiving growing interest from the construction industry of China. Nevertheless, although BIM has many foreseeable advantages, many studies claimed that these advantages have not been sufficiently achieved in practice at the current stage. In this circumstance, it is interesting to investigate what really drives the adoption of BIM. Based on Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior (TPB), a hypothetical model which involves nine latent variables is initially established. Then, a questionnaire is designed and distributed to the construction professionals in the Chinese context. After reliability and validity analysis, the goodness-of-fit of the initial model and the related theoretical assumptions are tested through structural equation modeling (SEM). Based on the modification indicators, a modified model is finally derived. Results show that economic viability and governmental supervision are the most critical factors that influence construction professionals’ BIM adoption behavior in China, sharing weights of 0.37 and 0.34, respectively, whereas other factors play limited roles in this regard. The research findings revealed from this study can provide insightful references for countries that intend to promote BIM adoption in a similar circumstance.

A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN CHINA AND USA ON THE INFLUENCING PATH OF TRANSACTION COSTS IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Huimin Li ◽  
Chengyi Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
The Core ◽  
Management Efficiency ◽  
Core Construct

The actual cost of a construction project is composed of not only production costs, but also transaction costs. The presented model includes the uncertainty of the owner’s behavior, the uncertainty of the contractor’s behavior, the uncertainty in the transaction environment and mechanism, and project management efficiency, to illustrate the influence path of the transaction costs borne by the owner. The model is tested by the structural equation modeling (SEM) using the data collected from construction project owners. The finding indicate that uncertainty in the transaction environment and mechanism appears to be the core construct of the model due to its strong linkages with transaction costs and the owner’s behavior, the contractor’s behavior, and project management efficiency. The uncertainty of the contractor’s behavior is also found to affect project management efficiency positively. A certainty behavior on the part of the owner reduces the uncertainty in the transaction environment and mechanism, increases the efficiency of project management, and reduces the transaction costs of construction project.

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