BIM: Enabling Sustainability and Asset Management through Knowledge Management
Table 6
The barriers to the implementation of built asset information modelling.
Barriers of implementation
Description
Issues concerning IP, liability, risks, and contracts
As the designer is responsible for the creation of the ‘‘rich’’ model that will be used throughout the process, this raises issues of who owns the IP, who is liable, what are the risks involved, and how will new contracts be structured?
Issues concerning the authenticity of users
Using electronic environments for tendering raises authenticity questions because manipulation of data may be possible, and the authenticity of users needs to be secured.
Costs
For designers, the economic advantages of BIM are less tangible. Yet, it is the designer, not the owner, that must adopt and invest in the new technology, So unless the designer shares in the economic benefits, the owner, not the designer, reaps the immediate benefits and the designer pays the price. Builders and owners benefit significantly from BIM.
Sociotechnical issues
Attention needs to be given to the socio-technical issues which arise from implementation of new technology, which results in new ways of doing business.
Skill issues
Access to BIM may be limited or inhibited by users either not having the capability or the ‘‘know how’’ in terms of connecting to the system. Obtaining sufficient level of knowledge and expertise that is required for BIM may be difficult and prohibitively expensive.
