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A research review on building information modelling in construction - an area ripe for IS research
Department of Information Systems, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.
Department of Information Systems, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.
2012 (English)In: Communications of the Association for Information Systems, ISSN 1529-3181, E-ISSN 1529-3181, Vol. 31, p. 206-229, article id 10Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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This article presents a review of the research on Building Information Modeling (BIM) in construction, with the aim of identifying areas in this domain where IS research can contribute. The concept of BIM comprises an infrastructure of IT tools supporting collaborative and integrated design, assembly, and operation of buildings. This integrated construction approach, with all stakeholders editing or retrieving information from commonly shared models, requires major changes to well-established processes, organizational roles, contractual practices, and collaborative arrangements in the construction industry. Through a review of 264 research articles on BIM, we found that this research spans a wide area of technological and organizational topics, of which many have a clear resonance to focal areas in IS research. Our analysis shows that IS, to some extent, serves as a reference discipline and that theories used in IS research are also informing contemporary BIM research. The following areas in need of further IS research were identified: studies on the relationship between BIM’s functional affordance and human agency, adoption and use of BIM for inter-organizational collaboration, the influence of organizational culture on BIM practices, the capabilities of BIM for transforming industry practice, and identifying the business value of BIM. Considering that a well-established knowledge base in IS research can be drawn upon for studying these issues, combined with the exciting potential of BIM for transforming a major industry such as building construction, we conclude that BIM is an area ripe for IS research.

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2012. Vol. 31, p. 206-229, article id 10
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-38757OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-38757DiVA, id: diva2:1180792
Available from: 2018-02-06 Created: 2018-02-06 Last updated: 2018-02-27Bibliographically approved

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