Incentivizing Collaborative BIM-Enabled Projects

The use of digital representations to aid in projects—Building Information Modeling (BIM)—is gaining traction worldwide as an effective and beneficial approach to executing projects that can reduce errors and improve project results. The author explains the current state of BIM use in China, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Following multiple case studies in each country, Professor Chang explores the explicit and implicit motivators that may drive BIM participation and the factors that can influence its effectiveness. The case studies offer multiple perspectives on why and how BIM-enabled projects are adopted and provide a lens for understanding BIM at varying levels. 

Dr. Chen-Yu Chang is an infrastructure economist with a tenured position at the Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, University College London. He is the director of the Bartlett Infrastructure Center as well as the founding director of the UK-China Infrastructure Academy.