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Digitalisation in construction: Mixed blessing for collaboration in projects
The United Kingdom (UK) construction industry has seen the last years a proliferation of digital technologies used throughout the project lifecycle. Through this increasing demand for digitalisation, industry practitioners are subjected to an unprecedented exposure to visions and rhetoric for the ‘Construction 4.0’, a fully automated and smart industry, leveraging cyber-physical systems. Nevertheless, amidst this technological determinism, projects struggle to leverage these digital technologies. Initially, the focus of the research was to identify the effect of a digital platform, namely Building Information Modelling (BIM), on collaboration in construction projects. More specifically, the study addresses the following research question: “To what extent can digital technologies such as BIM facilitate collaboration within the construction industry”? As part of the research, the primary data has been collected through eight 1.5 hours-long interviews carried out with leading industry professionals and policy-makers in the UK until the data reached saturation. Afterwards, the collected data was coded, using open and axial coding, analysed and discussed with academic literature. The industry experts agreed that digital technologies such as BIM definitely have the potential to improve collaboration in the industry. To this end, they acknowledged that digitalisation can provide better utilisation of information, integrated working platforms, clear evaluation of project requirements, ensuring a lifetime approach and increasing overall efficiency. Nevertheless, beyond these easy and obvious answers, the study revealed surprising new challenges related to the implementation of digitalisation and its relation to collaboration. To a certain extent, digitalisation was a mixed blessing for collaboration, because of cultural barriers within the construction industry, that restrict any form of collaboration. Therefore, the main focus for improving collaboration through digitalisation should be on changing the culture, making ...
Digitalisation in construction: Mixed blessing for collaboration in projects
The United Kingdom (UK) construction industry has seen the last years a proliferation of digital technologies used throughout the project lifecycle. Through this increasing demand for digitalisation, industry practitioners are subjected to an unprecedented exposure to visions and rhetoric for the ‘Construction 4.0’, a fully automated and smart industry, leveraging cyber-physical systems. Nevertheless, amidst this technological determinism, projects struggle to leverage these digital technologies. Initially, the focus of the research was to identify the effect of a digital platform, namely Building Information Modelling (BIM), on collaboration in construction projects. More specifically, the study addresses the following research question: “To what extent can digital technologies such as BIM facilitate collaboration within the construction industry”? As part of the research, the primary data has been collected through eight 1.5 hours-long interviews carried out with leading industry professionals and policy-makers in the UK until the data reached saturation. Afterwards, the collected data was coded, using open and axial coding, analysed and discussed with academic literature. The industry experts agreed that digital technologies such as BIM definitely have the potential to improve collaboration in the industry. To this end, they acknowledged that digitalisation can provide better utilisation of information, integrated working platforms, clear evaluation of project requirements, ensuring a lifetime approach and increasing overall efficiency. Nevertheless, beyond these easy and obvious answers, the study revealed surprising new challenges related to the implementation of digitalisation and its relation to collaboration. To a certain extent, digitalisation was a mixed blessing for collaboration, because of cultural barriers within the construction industry, that restrict any form of collaboration. Therefore, the main focus for improving collaboration through digitalisation should be on changing the culture, making ...
Digitalisation in construction: Mixed blessing for collaboration in projects
Manukyan, N (author) / Papadonikolaki, E (author)
2019-04-12
In: Proceedings of the Project Management (PM) Congress: Research meets practice 2019. Project Management Institute (PMI): Delft, Netherlands. (2019)
Paper
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
690
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