Impact of Motivational and Training Activities on Awareness of Building Information Modeling

Abstract

Currently, the Building Information Modeling (BIM) is extensively recognized as an incentive for increased productivity and innovations in architecture, engineering and construction. Nevertheless, apart from many numerous benefits of the BIM adoption in construction, it faces several considerable questions. The BIM implementation, as not an uncomplicated process, stands in need of aware, well-skilled and competent professionals. The concern of BIM in architectural, engineering and construction education is discussed leaning on ideas that have been presented by various authors and researchers. The motivational activities to enhance BIM awareness of graduates at the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Košlce are described and discussed in the paper. The activities involve the following areas: lectures and trainings on BIM technologies, student competition and availability of free student licenses for BIM software tools. But especially, the effect of these activities on BIM awareness of university students is examined. Results of the year after year repeated questionnaire survey conducted among students are evaluated through Shapiro-Wil test and Mann-Whitney U-test.