ABSTRACT
The AEC industry is the largest industry in the
world (Department of Commerce, 2007) with
distinguishing characteristics such as highly frag-
mented organizations (Department of Commerce,
2002) unique projects, and relatively short period
of production, outdoor and unstructured working
conditions, and labor-intensive activities. Success-
ful completion of AEC projects requires collabora-
tion of numerous multidisciplinary and sometimes
geographically separated team members. Continu-
ous, accurate and real-time information sharing
among project participants is key to resolve con-
flicts, speed up solutions, and keep projects on
time and on budget. There are many reasons why
the AEC industry is seen as inefficient (Khanzode,
et al. 2006, Eastman, et al. 2008); among them are
its field productivity and its production methods.
While Building Information Modeling (BIM) is
able to change these two aspects, each of these rea-
sons provides insight into how data that supports
the positive value of BIM can help to encourage a
wider scale of implementation.
