International conference on construction engineering and project management (국제학술발표논문집)
- 2015.10a
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- Pages.259-262
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- 2015
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- 2508-9048(eISSN)
A Case Study on Assessing the Productivity of a BIM team in a Construction Company
Abstract
Due to the labor-intensiveness, high investment cost, long execution time, frequent change orders, and many stakeholders in a BIM project, a BIM manager is bound to face a lot of risks to make decisions in cost managing process. Since the productivity of a BIM team will affect the execution cost, this study investigates a simple method of assessing the productivity of a BIM team using the working timesheet records of the team. In this research, the productivity of a BIM team is defined as the effective working floor area (in square meters) of BIM uses per labor-time (in man-months) spent by the team. After the applicability of this method is tested by regression analysis using data from 5 real BIM projects in the construction phase, it is found that the simple productivity definition adopted in the method, although easy-to-implement, does not produce a statistically constant productivity value. More research is therefore needed in the future to devise better indicator(s) for assessing the productivity of a BIM team.
Keywords
- Building Information Modeling (BIM);
- productivity;
- cost management;
- decision-making;
- cost breakdown structure