Critical Success Factors (CSF) and Challenges of BIM adoption/ implementation

Atila Vidra

The Critical Success Factors (CSF) are strongly linked to barriers, benefits and drivers of the BIM implementation process and it will be reflected in this article. Figure no. 1 depicts some Critical Success Factors based on year and author.

Muhammad et al. (2019) identified an important fact that, only few studies have examined BIM adoption issues, but a comprehensive study highlighting issues in multiple dimensions is still missing, hence the need of such study is still awaited.

An excellent approach by Olugboyega and Windapo (2019) to understand and depict the complexity of a BIM application curve in context of project complexity and BIM effectiveness is shown in Figure no. 2 below. The major BIM implementation concerns owing to the problem of finding the balance between BIM effectiveness, BIM value, project success, and project characteristics which are the challenges of applying BIM on construction projects as per Olugboyega and Windapo (2019).

As AbuEbeid and Nielsen (2018) explained, in developing countries high levels of adoption has been hindered by the initial high costs, lack of skills in implementation and lack of enhanced standardization of the guidelines at the national levels. The latter challenge is being identified in UAE by all major stakeholder already and it is being addressed by joining to international buildingSMART as a ‘New Chapter in Development’, as it is announced by Mercer (2020) from buildinSMART.

status of BIM adoption in UAE construction industry, where the factor categories have been identified as dimensions for ease understanding.

The three main dimension affecting BIM implementation are as follows:

• Technology dimension about interoperability between applications, software compatibility, authorizing and monitoring of the quality and progress of construction, design clash detection and visualization and BIM standard and protocols.

• Organizational dimension for BIM professionals, vendors, professional trainings of BIM technologies, and support of Clients and senior management.

• Attitude dimension which includes interest in learning BIM, BIM awareness and willingness to use BIM.

In conclusion the challenges are well known by most professionals and industry stakeholders, and are being addressed in various projects all around the world towards a more common and unified solution under the umbrella of ISO 19650 standards.

Mehran (2016, p. 1114) has explored the

An overview from someone who has experience with several international companies in the Façade & Cladding sector involving design, fabrication, site installation and contract management since the early ‘70’s, on some of the largest and most prestigious contracts in the UK and Ireland.