A Framework for Improving Collaboration Patterns in BIM Projects

BIM is often presented as a collaborative platform. However, the core principle of BIM is about sharing data through centralized or distributed platforms. Collaboration is not at the heart of BIM. It is about requiring the actors of the construction project network to reconfigure their patterns of relationships to facilitate the production and exchange of the project data and the information processing using this platform. Organization of work in construction is highly linear and fragmented, and the construction project stakeholders don’t have the tools to understand and represent how information is created and processed among them.