The Influence of BIM Education Improvement on Raising BIM Awareness in Croatia and Slovakia

Sonja Kolarić,Tomáš Mandičák,Mladen Vukomanović,Peter Mesároš

doi:10.3311/ppar.13868

Abstract

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an intelligent 3D model-based process that enhances productivity and management performance of construction projects. Recognizing many benefits of BIM, governments of the most developed members of the European Union encourage BIM usage which results in a higher BIM awareness and BIM adoption. These facts suggest that BIM is becoming the norm within construction industry. On the contrary, Croatia and Slovakia have been very low in BIM application and have done little to support BIM initiatives. Previous studies suggested several strategies to increase the BIM application, where providing BIM education at university level is one of them, so universities need to update their curricula accordingly. In this study we compared implemented Construction Management (CM) BIM education on master’s study at the Faculty of Civil Engineering Košice and Zagreb. The results show that BIM education at the both faculties should be connected with other departments on the same faculty, other disciplines but also with real companies and projects. Such extension will provide civil engineers with wider BIM knowledge related to interoperability, integration, communication, collaboration, standardization and clash detection. Thus, BIM education improvement will have good impact on rising BIM awareness and will be good incentive for further BIM implementation in Croatia and Slovakia. This study is an extension of paper presented on Creative Construction Conference 2018 in Ljubljana. In this paper we showed deeper statistical analysis of CM educational programs in Croatia and Slovakia as well as relationship between BIM awareness and BIM education in both countries.

Highlights

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an intelligent 3D model-based process that enhances productivity and management performance of construction projects
BIM education was reached through single course collaboration and in such environment information exchange between different formats, standards and stakeholders by using IFC standard worked well which the students confirmed with their thinking (Košice 83.33 %, Zagreb 76.79 %, Table 1)
Analysis of the results showed that only constructability, model-based estimating and collaboration was acquired through BIM education at the Faculty of Civil Engineering Košice as a theoretical knowledge

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Introduction

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an intelligent 3D model-based process that enhances productivity and management performance of construction projects. The usage of BIM is increasing and within five years it is expected that BIM usage in design professions in most world countries will be over 80 % These facts suggest that BIM is becoming the norm within construction industry (Malleson et al, 2016). Previous studies showed that Croatia and Slovakia have been very low in BIM application where only 0-25 % of construction companies have been used BIM in their business (Kolarić et al, 2016; Mesaroš et al, 2016; Mesaroš and Mandičak, 2017) In some way this is a result of local state authorities’ disengagement in supporting BIM implementation. Authors suggested several strategies to increase the BIM application, where providing BIM education at university level is one of them (Salleh and Phui Fung, 2014)

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