THE INTRODUCTION OF BUILDING INFORMATION MODELLING

BY
AHMAD TARMIZI HARON
(AHMADTARMIZI@UMP.EDU.MY)
UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA PAHANG (UMP)
FACULTY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND EARTH RESOURCES
CENTER OF INNOVATION IN CONSTRUCTION

EPU MDEC ICOE BIM TECHNICAL TRAINING

 Presentation Outline
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1. Introduction
2. Why BIM?
3. What is BIM?
4. The Benefits of BIM
5. The Implementation Criteria
6. The Barriers
7. The Strategies
8. Conclusion
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 For decade, construction industry can be

considered as a fragmented industry because of
lacking of sharing information through its life cycle
and with other parties.
 Current approach; disconnected & working in their

own silo resulting fragmented and loss of

information.
 Keywords; Silo mentality, Fragmented
responsibility, Poor coordination, Costly re-entry of
duplicate data
and Much info still reduced to paper
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 Silo mentality, Fragmented responsibility, Poor

coordination,
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 Resulting loss of information during project’s life

cycle
Project Phase

Feasibility Program Conceptual Detail Design Construction Construction Operation &

Design Planning Maintenance

Report Sketches Drawings Drawings Estimation As Built Drawing

Spec.
Scheduling
Data: Output/Input

Loss of Information
1. Introduction
Some of the solutions proposed:
 Concurrent Engineering

 Integrated Supply Change

 Integrated Project Team

 Web Based Project Management

 Integrated Practice
 Partnering
 Building Information Modelling
 4D/5D Modelling
 nD Modelling/iBIM
 Integrated Project Delivery
 Integrated Design & Delivery Solution
 Virtual Design and Construction
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 Traditional ‘Over the Wall’ workflow

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 BIM can be a platform for integration

Current Practice BIM practice by shared

project model
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 3. Why BIM?
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 Malaysian Construction Industry: causes

Client late payment , inadequate client’s finance, late of decision making
done by the client to any amended, and interferences from client are
the elements that contribute to delay in construction projects (Abdul
Rahman et al., 2006; Murali, S. and Soon, Y. W., 2007 and Hamzaha
et al., 2011)
Consultants problems in detail design, slow correction of design problems and
late inform and distribute the new design details, late review of shop
drawings, and delay in tests and inspections (Abdul Rahman and
Berawi , 2001; Abdul Rahman et al., 2006 )

Contractors fails to estimate the construction activities and duration resulting

difficulty in planning, monitoring and controlling the construction
projects, under estimate the project cost and fail to distribute the cost
accordingly and misinterpret the design details (Naief, 2002; Chan
and Park, 2005 and Long et al., 2008)
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 Malaysian Construction Industry: issues
Problems
- 17.3%, government contract
projects in Malaysia were
considered sick because of delay
more than 3 months
- Public sector projects, about
43% projects completed within
budget
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Researcher
Murali, S. and Soon, Y. W.
(2007); Abdul Rahman et al.
(2006) and Naief, 2002
Intan et al. (2005), Chan and
Park, 2005 and Long et al., 2008
 What is BIM?
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an approach to building design and construction
through modelling technology which requires an
associated set of processes and people to
produce, communicate and analyse Building
Information Model
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People Process
• Maturity • BIM Deployment
• Awareness Plan
• Training • BIM Guideline
• Etc. BIM

• Software
• Hardware
Technology • Training
 What is BIM (The progress)
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 What is BIM (the process)
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 What is BIM (the deliverables)
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3. What is BIM? (The repository)
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Where are the

products/materials
located in the model?

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 What is BIM (The technology)
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 4. The benefits of BIM
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 Lots of benefits gain through BIM, but the

implementation still low
 Design Visualization
Visualize building early in the process to support and
accelerate the decision making process.
 Schedule Visualization
Visualize construction process to review and optimize
the construction sequence and the schedule.
 Design Validation
Integrate 3D models of all trades to identify interferences
and constructability issues before they materialize in the
field.
 Estimating
Tie scope of project to a price;
Manage scope changes more efficiently
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 As a summary; - Behaviour : reluctant to change, resist to

- Technology Risk :
incompatibility of the
technology, the complexity
people
of the technology, the
interoperability between
technology and the security
issue
- Technological Financial
risk : the cost when
implement new technology
The
barriers
technology
adopt new approaches and reluctant to attend
any training to enhance their skills
- Belief and Fear : new technologies will
take their role and also create a new role, they
afraid of uncertainty and resulting the low
level of confidence because of their anxiety
- Organisational Structure
and Organisational
Culture : lack of awareness
about the benefits, lack of
planning and
communication, lack of
shared vision, resistance
organisation
from the senior manager and
having a corporate culture
resist to change
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the barriers the strategies

Clients do not Role of Government and
demand for BIM incentives given to implement
BIM
Lack of knowledge Promotion, Road show
about BIM awareness, sharing the success
stories
Complacent with Eliminate impediments
2D practice and
current ACAD Provide training scheme
applications Outsourcing the experts
Lack of BIM expert
users
Developing the BIM guideline
Do not know how to
implement Applying BIM Cloud
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 Lots of evidence shows that BIM can enhance the construction

performance but the rate of implementation of BIM in the
Malaysian construction industry has been slow due to various
reasons.
 Construction players should accept that benefits from
utilisation of ICT don’t come automatically because some of
the benefit required more time to mature and the process of
evolving from current practise into ‘unknown environment’,
therefore, there is a time gap between the early investment and
income.
 To assist construction players to implement BIM a thorough
study needed to be carried out to identify the right approach in
adopting BIM in construction industry.