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Azzouz, A, Hill, P and Papadonikolaki, E (2018) Digital Innovation in Europe: Regional Differences across One International Firm. In: Gorse, C and Neilson, C J (Eds.), Proceedings 34th Annual ARCOM Conference, 3-5 September 2018, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK. Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 240–249.
- Type: Conference Proceedings
- Keywords: Digital divide, BIM, BIM Maturity Measure, regional studies, regional comparison.
- ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-9955463-2-5
- URL: http://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/proceedings/ce293f007aac4c9a699940a7edbd1015.pdf
- Abstract:
The digital divide of Building Information Modelling (BIM) across geographies has emerged recently as an important research area, but it has rarely been examined. Examinations of BIM maturity at country level are of vital importance to better observe the similarities and differences in adopting innovations across regions, and establish strategies to diminish digital inequalities and transfer lessons across boundaries based on these observations. Whereas BIM has been at the forefront of digital transformation in construction globally, countries have different institutional settings that influence the maturity of BIM implementation.
This paper addresses this gap by comparing BIM implementation to 144 projects in Europe across six countries: Germany, Ireland, Poland, the Netherlands, Spain and Italy. In total, 21, 70, 15, 13, 14, 11 projects were studied respectively. These projects are selected from one international firm that operates on different aspects of the built environment. The BIM Maturity Measure (BIM-MM), one of the current sixteen tools developed globally that measures BIM, has been applied to these projects to assess BIM mature, some of the measured criteria include employer’s information requirement, BIM contract, common data environment and design data review. Findings show that overall, BIM maturity is the highest in Spain, followed by the Netherlands. However, when looking individually at measured BIM-MM criteria, it has been observed that regions tend to do better than others in certain areas. For example, Germany has the highest score in having BIM contracts that define roles and responsibilities in projects, and the Netherlands has the highest average of BIM leadership roles in projects.
The gap analysis performed in the study by mapping areas of BIM maturity, can show strengths and weaknesses of the various countries and in turn support the policy-makers and te practitioners in their decision-making on BIM implementation. Such regional comparisons can influence professionals, researchers and policy-makers to address the challenges of the digital divide in the construction industry.