Abstract
The existence of digital applications in construction industry has opened the floodgates to a better integration and collaboration. In particular, Building Information Modelling (BIM) provides construction stakeholders greater visualisation of project information and communications across multi-organisations. Despite the explicit benefits, the study on what it takes to drive the successfulness of social collaboration in BIM still remain elusive. This paper presents a review of the literature to identify the key elements of social collaboration in BIM-based construction projects. The review identified three key elements (i.e. foundational platform, organisational context and behavioural context) which together form the nexus for successful social collaborative practice. The findings in this study extend the collaboration literature in construction domain by providing deeper insights into the characterisation and importance of social collaboration in digital environment.
Highlights
The wider digitalisation across the world is having a direct impact to the construction sector by bringing new technologies
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is recognised as one of the initiatives to enhance the platform of collaboration and management of information throughout the building life cycle [2, 3]
In order to address this gap in the body of knowledge, this study aim to review the key elements of social collaboration in BIM-based construction projects which could form a platform to further understand the movement towards successful social collaboration over the lifecycle of BIM-based projects
Summary
The wider digitalisation across the world is having a direct impact to the construction sector by bringing new technologies. The use of disruptive technology in construction is starting to gain traction, meaning that those responsible for delivering infrastructure have to be more agile and willing to adapt to change in a pragmatic way [1]. The growing pace of technological means role of engineers will change and the blurring of the lines between engineering and technology, can make the opportunities appeal to people with a much wider range of interests to integrate and collaborate. Despite its well documented benefits in regard to collaboration, the problem associated with continuous and consistent collaborative practice in BIM project over time still exist [2, 4]. There are recognised problems whereby different BIM applications are not communicating with each other due to technical and non-technical factors and limiting the integration process across the engineering disciplines (e.g. civil, electrical, mechanical, automation) [6, 7]
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