Abstract
As well known, the rapid development of building information modeling (BIM) has provided cconstruction industry a more advanced tool for project information sharing. The standardized IFC format, centralized information storage and consistent information flow could potentially help all construction professionals including quantity surveyors. Despite the benefit of BIM has been well recognized for a relatively long period, research on adopting it in quantity take-off is still segmented and limited. Moreover, the utilization of BIM to achieve cost control target is still under exploratory investigation. The objective of this paper is to analyze the effectiveness of various working methods by comparing traditional and BIM-assisted cost control methods through a case study in China, and explore how to utilize BIM to better facilitate construction cost control process. Results indicate that BIM has not been fully implemented to accomplish cost control tasks, and efforts have to be made at respective stages for improvement. Proposals have been made on technical enhancement of BIM’s cost control capabilities.
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