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Global Building Information Modeling Maturity

Tian, Chi / Chen, Yunfeng / Zhang, Jiansong / Cox, Robert F.

Since its inception in 1970s, the popularity and industry-wide adoption of building information modeling (BIM) has dramatically expanded. Among those projects branded as BIM-assisted, there are different levels of BIM maturity (BIMM), which is defined as the level to which BIM is explicitly defined, managed, integrated, and optimized. There is no shortage of academic studies or professionals’ reports regarding the adoption and maturity of BIM. However, many studies account for limited measures of BIMM. In addition, their measurement metrics lack substantial theoretical justification. Moreover, most studies are not general due to the limitation of sample size or geographical location. This paper aims to fill the gap and present the findings of a global industry-wide BIMM survey of 537 practitioners’ direct working experience of BIM-assisted projects. A global survey was designed to collect BIM-related professionals’ evaluation of the maturity levels of their BIM-assisted projects. Then, demographic analysis is performed to summarize the insight and reality regarding the major business type of BIM organizations, BIM expertise of the current BIM users, and the profile of BIM-assisted projects. Last, the BIMM is quantified and compared from the dimensions of technology, information, people, and process. It is found that the global industry level of BIM is between neutral and somewhat mature. There are various levels of BIMM by different industry players.