Building Information Modelling (BIM) implementation: academia perspectives

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a technological revolution and a process that changes the way building is planned, designed, analysed, constructed, and operated in the construction industry. The increasing use of the BIM in construction industry has now led to an emphasis on BIM in education institution. Nowadays, most of the construction firms in Malaysia are looking for employees with hard and skilled skills in this type of technology. Knowledge and skills about BIM should be applied in students in education institutions, and if it is not, the graduates will be having difficulties entering a professional career. Past studies have examined barriers that have resulted in low adoption BIM in Malaysia, but they do not study deeper on academia perspectives in education institutions. Thus, this research aim is to establish how BIM can be implemented in the education institutions from the perspectives of academia. Three objectives have been formulated were to investigate awareness on BIM benefits in education among academia, to determine the barriers on BIM implementation among academia, and to identify the initiatives taken by academia due to implementation of BIM. In order to achieve the aim of this study, the questionnaire survey has been distributed to the academia in education institutions in Malaysia.