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An Interactive Decision-Support Tool to Improve Construction Cost Management with Building Information Modeling
Cost overruns in construction projects are currently one of the biggest problems in the industry. Factors causing these cost overruns have been identified in order to improve current management practices. Building Information Modeling (BIM), and in particular the fifth dimension relating to cost management (5D BIM), offers techniques and processes to improve the quality, performance, and efficiency of projects. Current BIM 5D practices are evolving and many software programs are being developed in this direction. However, due to the multiplicity of the proposed solutions and the wide range of the possibilities and associated functionalities, it is challenging for the practitioners to select the right tool adapted to their particular requirements. Previous research works have attempt to solve the issue by proposing some comparison of the existing 5D BIM tools. While very interesting, such comparisons are not sufficient since they do not provide the user with the level of interactivity necessary to adapt the choice to their particular business context. The research project presented in this paper proposes an interactive decision-support tool for the effective choice of 5D BIM solutions. The proposed tool is based on the characteristics and functions of the existing software and uses a personalized weighting by the user for each of the identified cost management requirements. Thus, the proposed tool makes it possible to inform users about 5D BIM software according to their specific requirements and to provide them with informed software selections. The results were evaluated and validated by experts in construction cost management.
An Interactive Decision-Support Tool to Improve Construction Cost Management with Building Information Modeling
Cost overruns in construction projects are currently one of the biggest problems in the industry. Factors causing these cost overruns have been identified in order to improve current management practices. Building Information Modeling (BIM), and in particular the fifth dimension relating to cost management (5D BIM), offers techniques and processes to improve the quality, performance, and efficiency of projects. Current BIM 5D practices are evolving and many software programs are being developed in this direction. However, due to the multiplicity of the proposed solutions and the wide range of the possibilities and associated functionalities, it is challenging for the practitioners to select the right tool adapted to their particular requirements. Previous research works have attempt to solve the issue by proposing some comparison of the existing 5D BIM tools. While very interesting, such comparisons are not sufficient since they do not provide the user with the level of interactivity necessary to adapt the choice to their particular business context. The research project presented in this paper proposes an interactive decision-support tool for the effective choice of 5D BIM solutions. The proposed tool is based on the characteristics and functions of the existing software and uses a personalized weighting by the user for each of the identified cost management requirements. Thus, the proposed tool makes it possible to inform users about 5D BIM software according to their specific requirements and to provide them with informed software selections. The results were evaluated and validated by experts in construction cost management.
An Interactive Decision-Support Tool to Improve Construction Cost Management with Building Information Modeling
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Gupta, Rishi (editor) / Sun, Min (editor) / Brzev, Svetlana (editor) / Alam, M. Shahria (editor) / Ng, Kelvin Tsun Wai (editor) / Li, Jianbing (editor) / El Damatty, Ashraf (editor) / Lim, Clark (editor) / Strange, Nicolas (author) / Forgues, Daniel (author)
Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Annual Conference ; 2022 ; Whistler, BC, BC, Canada
Proceedings of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Annual Conference 2022 ; Chapter: 42 ; 687-698
2023-08-17
12 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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