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Professionals' perception towards using building information modelling (BIM) in the highway and infrastructure projects

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  • Khaled Shaaban
  • Abid Nadeem

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Stakeholders of highway and infrastructure project projects are turning to ground-breaking technologies, such as building information modelling (BIM), to help reduce time and improve cost efficiency, without compromising the quality of their projects and the environment. These stakeholders are public agencies officials, project managers, transportation engineers and contractors. The purpose of this paper is to explore the implementation characteristics of BIM in these projects. The benefits and applications of BIM with a focus on highway and infrastructure projects are reviewed. The BIM attributes based on the content analysis of the various BIM definitions are identified and analysed. The transportation practitioners' perspective towards BIM is obtained and the readiness of the industry for the BIM implementation is assessed through a questionnaire survey among transportation professionals and contractors in the Arabian Gulf region. It was found that the benefits of BIM are now being realised in the highway and infrastructure projects.

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  • Khaled Shaaban & Abid Nadeem, 2015. "Professionals' perception towards using building information modelling (BIM) in the highway and infrastructure projects," International Journal of Engineering Management and Economics, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 5(3/4), pages 273-289.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijemec:v:5:y:2015:i:3/4:p:273-289
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