Assessment on adopting building information modeling in Ethiopia construction projects case in Addis Ababa city

Abstract

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an expanding collection of concepts and tools which have been attributed with transformative capabilities in the (AEC) industry. Building Information Modeling (BIM) has recently attracted extensive attention in the Architectural, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry with an increase in the use of information technology, all the while increasing productivity, efficiency, infrastructure value, quality, and sustainability, rendering a purer image of constructability issues that are dealt with at the beginning of the construction process. Here in our country we are constantly facing low productivity in the field of construction industry because of project time and cost overrun and inability to accept best practice.in order to change our construction industry our industry must apply ICT applications. BIM is one of ICT applications used in AEC industry. The purpose of this paper was to assess adopting of BIM and to analyze benefit of BIM, key drivers and barriers of BIM adoption, thus providing better understanding of BIM and its usefulness in various stages of the construction projects. A qualitative and quantitative survey design was used in this research to hit expected outcome. Various related literature was reviewed and several web sites were searched. Purposive sampling method was applied for the selection of Construction Company. And the collected data was analyzed by calculating frequency, relative importance index (RII) and by using SPSS software. The findings are analyzed and presented by chart and table. From findings identified the key drivers of BIM are government pressure (RII of 0.94), accurate construction sequencing (RII of 0.93) and clash detection and automation of schedule/register generation (RII of 0.93). Makes project communication easier (RII of 0.96) and shorten project duration (RII of 0.9) are the main benefits of BIM .The last finding that the researcher identified was related with barriers to adopt BIM, lack of expertize (RII of 0.88) and lack of training (RII of 0.87) are the main barriers to adopt BIM. Currently the AEC industry throughout the world is attempting to adopt BIM as the future standard for building design, construction, and operation. Like other country Ethiopian construction project management institute (ECPMI) drafted road map to adopt BIM in all middle level public projects @ 2024. However the adoption rates of this technology have been lower than expected due to lack of expertize, lack of training impeding implementation. Therefore all stakeholder of construction industry are to take responsibility of adopting new innovation come to the industry to remain competitive both internationally and nationally