Adoption and Impact of Digital Transformation Tools among Fresh Graduate Quantity Surveyors in Malaysia

Digital transformation is a complex process that involves integrating new technologies into an organization’s operations, which requires significant change management. The process affects all facets of an organization, from its business model to its culture, and requires a clear understanding of the potential challenges to pave a more efficient and successful path toward transformation. Building Information Modelling is a set of digital transformation tools or software that can integrate the data and manage construction projects to run efficiently and effectively. BIM is also a technology that can improve the effectiveness and standard of built asset design, construction, and operation. The quantity surveyors can accomplish their typical tasks, such as measurement, procurement advising, estimating and cost planning, and the creation of bills of quantities, more successfully and efficiently by adopting BIM. However, the adoption of BIM amongst quantity surveyor is still low in many countries, including Malaysia. Thus, this research aims to present the adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM) amongst fresh graduate quantity surveyors based on current demand on work in the construction industry with the intention of uncovering new findings. There are two research objectives had been developed which are to identify the advantages of BIM amongst fresh graduate quantity surveyors, to determine the challenges encountered in adopting BIM amongst fresh graduate quantity surveyors. To achieve these objectives, a questionnaire survey based on random sampling methods was adopted. The questionnaire survey had been distributed to the fresh graduate quantity surveyors working at Contractor G7 in Selangor. Consequently, the findings of this research revealed that the advantages of implementing BIM are that BIM produce time savings in the preparation of costs. The challenges encountered in adopting BIM are lack of information technology and computing skills in adopting BIM.