مقاله انگلیسی رایگان در مورد تصویب مقررات BIM (الزویر)

Building Information Modelling (BIM) causes concurrent evolutionary and revolutionary changes across several scales within the organisational hierarchy ranging from individuals and groups; through organisations and project teams; to industries and whole markets [41,42]. Investigating the role BIM adoption plays at the largest organisational scales (i.e. countries or markets) has recently started to attract the attention of researchers. As a delimited area of research, investigating the implementation and diffusion of BIM within a country or across countries is referred to here as ‘macro BIM adoption’; with ‘macro’ denoting a large collections of organisational adopters operating within a defined national border; ‘BIM’ encapsulating a set of interacting technologies, processes and policies; and ‘adoption’ representing the combined connotations of readiness, implementation and diffusion. While many countries are investigating, developing or delivering a national BIM policy to facilitate BIM adoption across their respective markets, there is still a dearth of studies and methodologies for assessing and comparing existing policies, or for assisting in the formulation of new ones. With the absence of researcher-led, evidence-based approaches to macro BIM adoption, commercially-driven surveys have flourished [15]. These include a multiplicity of industry reports with data covering BIM diffusion in the UK, France and Germany [25]; Autodesk software uptake in Europe [1]; BIM diffusion in the U.S. and Canada [26]; BIM diffusion in the UK [29–31]; The Business Value of BIM in Australia and New Zealand [27]; and many others. In addition to these industry reports, many researchers have also conducted market-wide surveys but with heightened rigour and sturdier data collection methodologies. These studies covered a large number of countries, including: Australia [12], China [5], Finland [21], Iceland [18], India [24], South Africa [9], Sweden [37], Taiwan [28], United Kingdom [17], United States [11,23], and multi-markets [38,35,45,48]. While both industry surveys and academic studies provide valuable insights into BIM diffusion rates across markets, they are not intended to evaluate or compare current BIM policies or to assist stakeholders to develop new BIM adoption policies. To address this gap, a research effort has been conducted and consecutively published. The first paper ([43] – referred to as Paper A henceforth) introduced five conceptual models for assessing macro BIM adoption across whole markets and aiding the development of new policies. This second paper (referred to as Paper B henceforth) will build upon the conceptual foundations by using the five models to analyse BIM adoption across 21 countries with the participation of 99 experts. It will then demonstrate how these conceptual models can be combined into BIM policy roadmaps and BIM policy plans.