Topic: BIM Scientometric Review

What is already known in this area?

There is need to upgrade the environmental sustainability in Pakistan because the most significant
challenges in next decades developing countries like Pakistan will be related to traded goods, human
resources and environment etc. The importance of these sustainability measures can be seen by the
international agreement on sustainable development (Rio-Earth Summit and Agenda-21) Building more
effective knowledge systems for sustainability takes time and patience. Strategies to promote such
systems require a sufficiently long-term perspective that takes account of the generally slow impact of
ideas on practice, the need to learn from field experience, and the time scales involved in enhancing
human and institutional capital necessary for doing all these things. A decade or more thus seems the
minimal period over which efforts to harness S&T for sustainability should be planned, implemented, and
evaluated. The “new contract” for science and engineering that is being called for in many sustainability
discussions thus needs to be seen as a truly radical contract, not just for individual studies or projects, but
for whole professional careers. Review of literature suggests that the sustainable development planning in
Pakistan is urgent desire of our nation.

What does this study add to this literature?

Construction sector of Pakistan has rapidly developed with a higher growth rate of 12 percent
during the period 2020–2022. However, a poor record of completing the projects in allocated
time, cost, and with desired results is observed. One of the reasons for such poor performance is
sticking to the traditional management practices that can be easily overcome with the
implementation of building information modeling (BIM) tools. This study attempts to educate
the stakeholders of the public sector of construction industry in Pakistan, as to how BIM can help
them in minimizing the problems being faced during construction. BIM was implemented on a
running construction project of a government hospital. The results were then presented to the key
stakeholders, and they were asked to rank how BIM can help them in overcoming the problems.
The stakeholders were generally convinced to use BIM on future construction projects, and
agreed to take appropriate measures for BIM implementation in their departments. This research
is expected to help in enhancing the performance of construction industry through BIM
implementation. The scientometric analysis is used to objectively map the scientific
knowledge area in this study.