The enigma of BIM (Building Information Modelling)

Koutamanis, Alexander (author), Dainty, Andrew (author), Kvan, Thomas (author), Turk, Žiga (author)

This position paper outlines a number of key questions concerning BIM (Building Information Modelling), as well as the arguments and the historical background behind them. These include the incomplete theory of BIM, the reasons for the emergence of understanding BIM as a panacea for all ills in AECO (architecture, engineering, construction and operation of buildings), the relation between BIM promise and BIM performance, some of the key misconceptions and misunderstandings concerning BIM, and fundamental concerns about what is assumed to be the future of BIM. The paper concludes by suggesting four themes for further discussion and research into the nature and future of BIM and of AECO computerization in general.

• Language: English
• Keywords: construction informatics, computer integrated construction, BIM
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FGG - Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Author Accepted Manuscript
• Publication date: 24.11.2021
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: 9 str.
• Numbering: Letn. nov.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-136007
• UDC: 004:69
• ISSN on article: 2730-9894
• DOI: 10.1007/s44150-021-00017-6
• COBISS.SI-ID: 103345411
• Publication date in RUL: 06.04.2022

KOUTAMANIS, Alexander, DAINTY, Andrew, KVAN, Thomas and TURK, Žiga, 2021, The enigma of BIM (Building Information Modelling). Architecture, Structures and Construction [online]. 2021. Vol. nov. [Accessed 26 March 2025]. DOI 10.1007/s44150-021-00017-6. Retrieved from: https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=136007

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Architecture, Structures and Construction
• Shortened title: Archit. Struct. Constr.
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
• ISSN: 2730-9894
• COBISS.SI-ID: 103305475

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 24.11.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Enigma (skrivnost, uganka) BIM-a (Informacijskega modeliranja zgradb)

Abstract

Članek odpira številna ključna vprašanja v zvezi z BIM (Building Information Modelling), kot tudi argumente in zgodovinsko ozadje za njimi. Sem spadajo nepopolna teorija BIM-a, razlogi za nastanek razumevanja BIM-a kot rešitve za vse tegobe v AECO (arhitektura, inženirstvo, gradna in upravljanje zgradb), odnos med obljubo BIM-a in zmogljivostjo BIM-a, nekatere ključne napačne predstave in nesporazume v zvezi z BIM ter temeljne skrbi glede tega, kaj se domneva, da bo prihodnost BIM. Članek zaključuje s predlaganjem štirih tem za nadaljnjo razpravo in raziskovanje narave in prihodnosti BIM-a in informatizacije AECO nasploh.

• Keywords: gradbeništvo, gradbena informatika, BIM

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P2-0210
• Name: E-Gradbeništvo