Micro BIM Adoption: a Multi-Variable Analysis of Adoption within the UK Architecture Sector

Abstract

To date a comprehensive analysis of interactions among BIM adoption factors, stages of the BIM adoption process, and time (e.g. time intervals of a national BIM initiative) is still lacking. This research aims to profile BIM adoption by mapping such interactions. The analysis is performed for the UK Architecture sector, which was represented with a sample of 177 organisations. To achieve the profiling of BIM adoption in the UK architecture sector, the study uses the outcomes from two types of inferential analysis: an ordinal logistic regression test to identify the 11 top factors influencing the BIM adoption process; and correlation analysis among the 11 top factors at different stages of the BIM adoption process (i.e. awareness, intention, and decision) and across three time intervals (i.e. pre-2011 as the time interval preceding the announcement of the UK BIM mandate, 2011-2016 as the time interval for the implementation of the UK national BIM strategy, and post-2016 as the time interval within which the mandate entered into effect). Capturing the interactions involved in the profiling of micro BIM adoption and assimilating the outcomes in a single model unravel a further understanding of the BIM adoption process. In particular, the results reveal a dynamic behaviour characterising the micro BIM adoption process where: (1) correlated pairs of adoption factors have a varying level of influence within each adoption stage; (2) the factors involved in each pair generally change across the two dimensions (stages of adoption, and time horizon); and (4) the pairs of factors influencing adoption stages over time often combine constructs from the three clusters of drivers identified in [1] (i.e. Innovation/BIM Characteristics, External Environment Characteristics, and Organisation’s Internal Environment Characteristics). © 2019 The Authors. Published by Budapest University of Technology and Economics & Diamond Congress Ltd. Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the Creative Construction Conference 2019.