Abstract
This paper aims to identify and investigate the factors affecting the goals of mass-housing building projects due to the use of building information modeling (BIM). A descriptive-survey method was used to collect necessary data. Fifty respondents from the target sectors and experts in the field of modeling building information participated in self-selection survey. The tools of collecting data included three questionnaires regarding three phases of construction work: pre-construction, during construction and post-construction, which were developed based on the three indices of cost, time and quality. The face, content and construct validity of the questionnaires were confirmed after several rounds of testing. The reliability coefficient of the pre-construction, during the construction and post-construction questionnaires were 0.923, 0.917 and 0.876, respectively. The results show that the F-statistic is significant for the difference between the three groups (pre-construction, during construction and post-construction) at the 0.01 level. The results confirmed that BIM has a great influence on a project in terms of meeting time, cost and quality objectives through the whole life cycle of a construction project: during pre-construction, construction, and post-construction stages.
Highlights
Housing is one of the most basic human needs
Given the content listed above, the purpose of this study is to investigate and analyze the factors affecting the goals of mass housing projects due to the use of BIM, and to answer the question: How does building information modeling affect the achievement of mass housing project goals?
In this study, which aimed to investigate the factors affecting the goals of mass housing construction using BIM, the accessible population comprised the experts from the government and executive bodies, consultants and contractors from the private and semi-government sectors in Iran, which related with construction projects
Summary
Housing is one of the most basic human needs. Humans have always been struggling with housing problems, and have always tried to do it in a suitable and sensible way. Huge destruction after world wars resulted in a massive and urgent need for new housing in Europe. One of the methods—construction of mass housing—was used to address housing shortages in the post-war period [1]. In most developing countries, access to adequate, safe and affordable housing is more essential than ever, especially among low-income groups [2,3]. Mass housing is a model of construction that has high-economic, -technical and -managerial feasibility [11,12,13]. Mass housing is Buildings 2020, 10, 35; doi:10.3390/buildings10020035 www.mdpi.com/journal/buildings
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