DIVERSE APPROACH OF BIM IN AEC INDUSTRY: A STUDY ON CURRENT KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE

The Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) industry has a long chase to overcome the barriers come from project cost overrun, poor productivity, quality, and extended time. Building Information Modeling (BIM) offers the potential approach to overcome these constraints in a highly integrated fashion with efficient and effective collaboration between all stakeholders. As a result, it has been acknowledged as one of the rising trends in the contemporary construction industry. However the potential use of BIM has not been limited only in the building construction industry, also rapidly growing for almost all type, scale and size of built environment projects. It has now exhibits promising trends to all other construction works such as bridge, roads, power plants, industry facility and so on. Moreover, the scope of work for BIM has been spread out in a large extent due to continuous research effort. Indeed BIM is now more diverse considering current context and widely known in different forms such as Green (Sustainable projects) BIM, Social (Participatory) BIM, Horizontal (Infrastructure project) BIM, Vertical (Building project) BIM and Heavy BIM (Civil Projects) This paper aims to highlight the current state of the art of BIM diversions of the industry mainly based upon the construction types. These diversions of BIM are further generalized with reference to collaboration aspects, industry acceptance and its usage. The empirical part of the paper will coalesce BIM trends, different use and future applicability that will be a demonstration for the academics and practitioners. Furthermore it includes different survey data and case study references to exploit the rational findings of BIM.