Abstract
Post-conflict reconstruction has been one of the most challenging themes for the AEC industry, urban designers and planners, and related decision-makers, especially in complex urban contexts with severe destruction in terms of infrastructure. The city of Mosul in Iraq is a case where there is an urgent need for reconstruction, in particular the housing sector after the enormous destruction caused by the ISIS war of 2014–2017. Today, advanced technologies in construction present opportunities to address post-conflict reconstruction challenges. BIM has been used in recent years since it is an integrated and effective process for planning, monitoring and managing contemporary construction projects. Nevertheless, BIM has not been investigated properly in planning and managing post-conflict reconstruction, especially in developing countries. This paper discusses the potential of adopting BIM in post-conflict reconstruction through investigating the validity of the BIM process in planning and assessing possible housing solutions for the reconstruction of Mosul city, using BIM applications. The main findings suggest that BIM applications present significant potential in the process of planning, assessing and managing the reconstruction of post-conflict contexts in developing countries, where conventional methods are limited, dysfunctional and inefficient.
Highlights
Post-conflict reconstruction has been a prominent challenge for the construction industry throughout history
This paper focuses on stage 3, which investigates the potential of building information modelling (BIM) applications in planning and managing post-conflict reconstruction in developing countries, the city of Mosul
The three stages of the research are: This paper focuses on stage 3, which investigates the potential of BIM applications in planning and managing post-conflict reconstruction in developing countries, the city of Mosul
Summary
Post-conflict reconstruction has been a prominent challenge for the construction industry throughout history. Throughout the past decades, planning post-conflict construction has been the act of proposing temporary solutions that fulfil a critical need in a particular timeframe [4]. These solutions, in most cases, are considered basic and temporary driven by improper planning and inadequate recognition of the context [5,6,7]. Among all post-conflict housing reconstruction challenges [7,15], construction costs and timeframes have been identified as the core pillars for a practical and functional reconstruction process, where the two pillars form a standing challenge for conventional planning approaches due to the complexity of predicting these measures, thereby identifying the most appropriate construction approach for a particular context and setting [7,15].
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