Egan Report - Has the Construction Industry Met Its Goals?

Cubicost is still a relatively new BIM-based product for taking off in the market and the countries that this software is available is still limited. Cubicost is also constantly updating and improving its software thus it is not a completely stable product yet as there may still be some flaw that affects the performance of this product. Moreover, there are still not many users that are familiar with the usage of Cubicost and the company requires to appoint more trainers to enable the firms that are using this product become familiar with the functions of

A basic definition for the procurement is “the way the building is realised” and “involves assembling and organising the skills and services of a team of construction professionals”. (the Construction Round Table, 1995). More precisely, the construction industry describes procurement as “a system that establishes the roles and relationships which make up a project organisation”; hence the overall organisation and communication structure for the management, administration and control of a project is established by the procurement system. (D.C.H Coles, 2010)

In October and December 2009, there was online survey conducted to quantify the frequency of each BIM Use along with the perception value for the BIM Use and the survey results represent that the largest percentage of respondents were the architects (36%), Design consultant(13%),General contractors(14%),and CAD consultant (14 %) and the least respondent were specialty contractors and facility managers (4%)

In my opinion, this way would not be a good way to determine the benefits of BIM when compared to the other two researches because, in this case, the response level was observed as 70%, and the others were case studies, which means they have been already implemented in the field on the site of construction. Two projects were selected where one of it followed BIM techniques and the other didn’t right from the beginning of construction. And from the literature review it is observed that the projects followed Integrated Project Delivery method where the planning starts from the pre construction phase of the project, and this project delivery method is the efficient way of project delivery method since all the teams will be coordinated much before the pre construction phase of the project. The case study presented in the first paper was based on owner's perspective and had less visibility to the contractor or designer. Apart from this, some of the data available was historical, thus an ideal state would be proper tracking of metrics by the team while

(“Building Information Modeling”) BIM is digital, meaning it is able to be shared with all people working on the project so that it can be modified where it is needed. Along with being able to share, BIM is capable of showing how much pressure is applied to objects in the buildings. The materials these objects are made of can also be changed very easily with a few taps on a screen or clicks of a mouse. With all this in mind, where is building information technology going? Well, right now, it is going nowhere for a few reasons. People may take courses and tutorials in different programs, but in the end, it is still difficult to see errors. Most errors are able to blend in with the pieces that are in the correct place. The issue is that the computer isn’t aware. Computers are being given commands, they aren’t able to point out what is wrong because they don’t know. Another issue is that everyone working on a project using BIM must know what they are looking at and how to use the tools. Until these issues are resolved, BIM won’t be going into the future improved. (Azhar Salman, “Building Information Modeling (BIM): Benefits, Risks and

B.I.M stands for Building Information Modeling, intelligent model-based process that provides insight to help you plan, design, construct, and mange buildings and infrastructure. B.I.M changes how buildings, infrastructure, and utilities are planned, designed, built, and managed. Autodesk B.I.M solutions help turn information into insight and deliver business value at every step in the process. B.I.M incorporates major elements of estimating, cost and project management. As a result, the B.I.M computer model is a living representation of the actual structure at any given time. B.I.M is more than drawings- it is a date repository for building design, construction, and maintenance information combined in one convenient model to share. The benefits of B.I.M are that there are reduced changes during construction. Reduced conflicts during construction and improved construction. Improved collective understanding of design intent reduces claims, disputes, and conflicts. B.I.M provides the capability to design efficient “Green Buildings.” The future of B.I.M will only make B.I.M better, the Information of B.I.M will be utilized more, designers, constructors and building owners will leverage the information that is right in from of them to add value to the building they are producing. Room and furniture, fixture, and equipment validation between

The BI tool can be used to analyze and understand the business risk from all aspects of its operations, if implemented and maintained well, this tool will help bring attention to areas that need improvement. (Kapoor,2010).The BI tool can be customized with dashboards that can track all corporate functions like human resources, recruiting, operations, security, information technology, customer relationship management and many more departmental dashboards.

Contractors want perfect models; what they want and what we are contracted to do are different

To facilitate model coordination and a collaborative project environment. Which would be achieved through regular BIM managers review meetings.

Chapter 2 provides a methodical review of relevant literature in the field of BIM, the perceived barriers with its adoption and implementation by SMEs and an analysis of the data found.

It can prove to be very difficult to manage a construction site as projects and sites are short-lived in nature, constantly changing in status, covering a huge range of construction processes of varying complexity and scale. The work processes and people change almost daily on sites, and projects involve diverse groups who are physically separated from the site, i.e. those who procure, design, specify, manage and maintain buildings and structures as well as those who undertake the process of building them.

There however are challenges in the industry occasioned by uncertainty on future spending on construction projects by the government. Moreover, the cost of doing business and the ability to increasingly make revenue have created a challenging environment for the construction firms. Therefore stakeholders in the construction industry are concerned with whether the government would increase its spending and whether the public construction projects will be available in the future since less than 10 percent are currently financing their clients.

The industrial change in New Zealand and the effects of adopting BIM in the construction projects are explained by taking case studies. Comparison with the other countries who uses BIM with New Zealand is done to analyses the global changes. And the report is made with help and reference from many BIM surveys conducted.

Some of the challenges the construction industry faces are the lack of skills and needing to ensure that there are available resources. The skills shortage in construction ranges from a shortage of bricklayers to a shortage of quantity surveyor.

The construction industry much like other industries is dependant with the distribution of “scarce resources” (Drake,1994). Many of its resources known as the factors or production i.e. labour, capital, land etc. are limited (Gregory-Mankiw, 2008), however, wants and desires within the industry are infinite (Myers, 2013). Kishtainy notes that this creates two problems; at any given time, there will be a fixed number of resource, against numerous wants. Sloman 2003 adds that in an effort to rectify this, he argues that we must make choices, in terms of choices within the construction industry Myers suggested that firms need to considered their investments made, how they construct and for whom they construct for.