A Review of Building Information Modelling Adoption and Barriers to Quantity Surveying Practice in New Zealand https://doi.org/10.34074/rere.00301
By: Omer Altaf
Abstract
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 benefits, the adoption of BIM has been slow in New Zealand, especially in quantity surveying practice. This review examines the current state, efforts to accelerate the adoption, and barriers to the adoption of BIM in quantity surveying practice in New Zealand. Some of the barriers to the adoption of BIM in quantity surveying practice in New Zealand include a lack of awareness and understanding of BIM, lack of BIM standards and protocols, lack of interoperability and integration among BIM software, high cost of BIM software and hardware, and the reluctance of construction industry stakeholders to adopt BIM. Overcoming these barriers is crucial for the successful adoption and implementation of BIM in quantity surveying
practice in New Zealand. This review also presents recommendations for the facilitation of the cost modelling process to find solutions to these barriers between 3D and 5D BIM.
Keywords:
BIM, Quantity Surveying, Construction, Estimation