Critical Success Factors for Implementing Building Information Modeling (BIM) in Construction Industry

Abstract

Succar [3] defined BIM as “a set of interacting policies, processes and technologies generating a methodology to manage the essential building design and project data in digital format throughout the building’s life-cycle”. BIM has developed civil engineering industries and construction process over the last years [4]. The implementation of BIM has been slowed particularly in small firms [5,6]. Many solutions have either concentrated onto technical issues (for example, software interoperability and software and training costs) or non-technical issues (for example, cultural change and legal uncertainties) [4,7]. However, solving these issues needs a better knowledge about Critical Success Factors (CSFs) to implement BIM successfully [8]. Rockart [9] defined CSFs as: “few key areas of activity where favorable results are absolutely necessary for a manager to reach his/ her goals.” Therefore, CSFs for BIM implementation was defined by Won [10] as a group of key areas that motivate stakeholders to alter their traditional project delivery system to implement BIM collaboratively from the beginning of design phase to facility management phase.