Building Information Modelling (BIM) has been adopted in the construction industry as a collaborative tool for designing, constructing, and managing building projects. The 5D BIM incorporates specification data and other properties that can be used to price construction jobs using relational and parametric models directly. The application can be used by quantity surveyors for a wide range of tasks, including quantity take-offs, cost estimation, and cost management. Despite its many ben…
Inefficiencies in paperwork, time management, rework, and design processes during the design and planning phases significantly impact construction projects, leading to increased waste and reduced project efficiency. This research has investigated how these factors contribute to waste, focusing on errors, omissions/lack of information and poor-quality documentation, delays in decision-making, lack of clear communications and design-related issues that affect overall project outcomes. Em…
Two key ideas proposed by the 2020 Agenda for Sustainable Development were to “expand the definition of the right to education” and to “value the teaching profession and teacher collaboration” (Zewde et al.,2020, p. 5). In light of these two ideas, teaching practices need to enhance the connectivity and access to knowledge and information and innovatively to engage in various formats of collaboration. Thus, as education professionals, teachers’ sustainable professional development is a…
This study evaluates learners’ perceptions of collaborative value management through automated quantity take-off.
The construction industry is known for delays, cost overruns, poor quality, and a high number of accidents. Collaborative value management is a strategy to determine the effectiveness of possible solutions to the problem. The fragmented nature of the construction industry leads to communication constraints among stakeholders. The intervention of Building information modell…