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Abstract

Building Information Management has been described as a technology to assist construction become efficient, collaborative, and transparent. Many studies have been carried out to illustrate how construction companies have adopted BIM technologies and how successful those processes were. Despite the range of studies that have been carried out, few highlight the differing issues adoption creates dependent upon the size of each company considered. Nor do the studies analyse differing regional challenges to BIM adoption.
The aim of this study was to analyse BIM adoption for Small and Medium Sized businesses within a regional context and assess whether there were any issues which had not been raised within the current literature. Subsequently several research objectives were created to achieve the aim, including an analysis of BIM benefits to SMEs, barriers to BIM adoption by SMEs and existing support structures for SMEs BIM adoption within construction. An analysis of the existing literature and an interview process amongst SMEs was undertaken to investigate professional opinions regarding BIM adoption.
The outcome of the data gathering suggested that SME architectural practices experienced similar issues whilst adopting BIM technologies as large offices in bigger regions of the UK, such as time, staff training and cost issues. However, the study highlighted that within Northern Ireland construction consultants, contractors and suppliers were lagging behind in BIM adoption and government agencies were not equipped to utilise BIM technologies for facilities management of their built assets.

Course: Building Information Management - MSc - P2657FTC

Date Deposited: 2023-02-13

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