Social media Approaches on BIM collaboration : master thesis No.: 237/II. GR-BIM

Durmus, Dilan (author), Turk, Žiga (mentor)

Construction sector is known to be very fragmented. Project teams contain diverse professions who must collaborate and communicate, but often lack the will, the skills, or the tools to do so. In other areas of collaboration social media plays an important role because it is providing for informal communication which people are more comfortable with. As a result, the general use of social media has increased during the last decade. From this background, this thesis aims to answer two questions: (1) What is the impact of social media on BIM (building information modelling) collaboration and (2), how is it supporting this collaboration. To answer these questions, a literature review is conducted for choosing and discussing studies related to social media and BIM collaboration. Findings show that social media increases communication between team members by sharing images, ideas, and work progress updates. Moreover, it creates a community of BIM experts and of professionals who are sharing the same concerns for the success of the project. The informal knowledge and information exchange enabled by social media technology provides better understanding of project requirements, helps to project managers to improve the management because they can understand better the skills and needs of the team members. Overall, supporting the BIM collaboration with social media tools improves project collaboration. Future work should study how to make BIM tools more social or how to make generic social tools work better with BIM data.

• Language: English
• Keywords: civil engineering, master thesis, BIM, social media, BIM collaboration, construction
• Work type: Master's thesis/paper
• Typology: 2.09 - Master's Thesis
• Organization: FGG - Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering
• Place of publishing: Ljubljana
• Publisher: [D. Durmus]
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: XIV, 58 str.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-141474-22f87ad9-3755-313a-f41b-afc196dae398
• UDC: 004.946.5:316.472.4(043.3)
• COBISS.SI-ID: 126388227
• Publication date in RUL: 30.09.2022

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Sodelovanje pri BIM s pristopi socialnih omrežij : magistrsko delo št.: 237/II. GR-BIM

Abstract

Gradbeni sektor je zelo razdrobljen. Projektne ekipe sestavljajo različni poklici med katerimi je zahtevana visoka stopnja sodelovanja in komuniciranja. Obstoječe študije kažejo, da ljudje v gradbenem sektorju ne sodelujejo dobro, ker nimajo želje, znanja ali orodij za to. S tem v zvezi imajo družbeni mediji pomembno vlogo, saj zagotavljajo neformalno komuniciranje, ki ljudem bolj ustreza. Zato se je zasebna uporaba družbenih medijev v zadnjem desetletju zelo povečala. Izhajajoč iz tega je namen te disertacije odgovoriti na dve vprašanji: (1) Kakšen je vpliv družbenih medijev na sodelovanje pri BIM (informacijsko modeliranje gradenj) in (2), kako lahko podpirajo to sodelovanje. Da bi odgovorili na ti vprašanji, je opravljen pregled literature, v katerem so zbrane in obravnavane študije, povezane z družbenimi mediji in sodelovanjem pri BIM. Ugotovitve kažejo, da družbeni mediji povečujejo komunikacijo med člani skupine z izmenjavo slik, idej in napredka pri delu. Poleg tega ustvarjajo skupnost strokovnjakov v sektorju BIM, strokovnjaki pa so v okviru projekta polje povezani v skrbi za uspeh projekta. Neformalna izmenjava znanja in informacij, ki jo omogoča tehnologija družbenih medijev, omogoča boljše razumevanje zahtev projekta in pomaga vodjem projektov pri izboljšanju napredka projekta, saj lahko bolje razumejo sposobnosti in potrebe članov ekipe. Na splošno pristop k sodelovanju pri BIM z družbenimi mediji zagotavlja boljše sodelovanje projektnih skupin. V prihodnje bi kazalo preučiti, kako orodja BIM narediti še bolj socialna ali kako splošna socialna orodja bolje prilagoditi za delo s podatki BIM.

• Keywords: gradbeništvo, magistrska dela, GR, BIM, družbeni mediji, BIM sodelovanje, gradnja