Facilities management readiness in Building Information Modelling (BIM) implementation in Malaysia / Nur Maisarah Che Zakaria

This study investigates the level of readiness for facilities management industry people to implementing Building Information Modelling (BIM) in their services. It presents contribution barriers and the BIM benefits that will be contributed to the success of BIM implementation in their industry. A mixed-method approach was used to identify the benefits and barriers of BIM implementation by obtaining the information from literature mapping, conceptual framing, and collection of data by distributing the survey questionnaire (quantitative) through google form. In the literature review phase, ten (10) benefits were identified as the reason why facilities management should implement BIM technologies into their services such as better space management, FM services became faster, efficient, and effective, safety risk can be reducing and many more. There were also five (5) barriers to implementing BIM that were identified thru some research and the questionnaire survey that will be responded to by the facilities management people will be answering either the barriers stated are what happens to them or not. An overall, the findings of this study will tell if the facilities management industry were ready to implementing BIM in their services or otherwise.