Construction Management Processes in a Digital Built Environment, Modelling

Matipa, WM, Shah, R ORCID: 0000-0002-3466-5110, Temitop, S-O and Marsh, D (2024) Construction Management Processes in a Digital Built Environment, Modelling. In: Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer Nature, pp. 466-473. ISBN 978-3-031-23159-9

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Abstract

Since the United Kingdom (UK) government introduced Building Information Modelling (BIM) Level 2 in 2016, the construction industry has made strides in mapping construction business processes to a BIM enabled work environment. While the modelling of building products has been made possible through the use of various architectural software systems, the industry faces challenges with regards to the modelling of construction processes pertinent to construction management in a digital built environment. It can be argued that for construction management to realise the potential from using BIM, there is a need to create a modelling tool that instantiate a myriad of undocumented tasks, events and decisions related to logistics, health and safety and the impact on delivery schedules; the supply chain, and the milestones. Such data as well as commercial data on construction tends to be abstract in nature, and cannot easily be represented in a BIM Level 2 model. This research was designed with an interpretivism philosophical standpoint; whereby it questioned the perception industry practitioners on how the industry undertakes the modelling of construction processes. It used a questionnaire survey to gather opinion on how practitioners are modelling abstract data types pertinent to construction management processes. Results from the research show that the industry adopts strategic protocols for implementing BIM. However, such a strategy has an insignificant impact on modelling construction process data, save for scheduling (construction programming). This paper proposes a framework for modelling construction processes using international standards on data models. The aim of the framework is to steer the focus to resolving some of the many challenges of modelling construction process. Such challenges can no longer be ignored if the industry is to move to Level 3 BIM. If implemented, the framework could promote the creation of customised systems for construction managers to capture data embedded in construction processes; and improve data manipulation and analysis. Such systems are critical to the attainment of the Level 3 BIM under COBie code of practice.

Item Type:	Book Section
Subjects:	T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Divisions:	Biological and Environmental Sciences (from Sep 19) Civil Engineering and Built Environment
Publisher:	Springer Nature
Date of acceptance:	2 September 2024
Date of first compliant Open Access:	4 September 2025
Date Deposited:	04 Sep 2025 12:17
Last Modified:	04 Sep 2025 12:17
DOI or ID number:	10.1007/978-3-031-23161-2_374
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/27088

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