BIM transition process in the Turkish architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry

Abstract

Technology is advancing day by day in the world. Each industry wants to reap the benefits of technology by integrating innovations and technological tools into its organizations. However, some sectors, like the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry, are too conservative to make breakthrough changes. In the AEC industry, altering the way of work processes is tremendously difficult. Nevertheless, in the last two decades, this understanding started to change in the opposite way. The most significant reason for this alteration is Building Information Modeling (BIM). The Turkish AEC industry also began to experience this change, as the other countries did. In this thesis, the BIM transition process has been analyzed in terms of the AEC firms. The main objective of this thesis is to determine the BIM transition process and identified its effective determinants from the perspective of the AEC companies in Turkey. In order to achieve this goal, an extensive literature review has been conducted. Based on the literature review, a proposed BIM transition framework has been generated, and 46 effective factors for the BIM transition process have been determined. Once the framework has been determined, specified effective factors were categorized into 6 components. Then, online interviews were made with industry experts from the AEC companies in Turkey to determine the importance of these factors on a 1-5 Likert scale. Finally, the ratings of the factors were evaluated and discussed by comparing the results according to the AEC companies.