Interaction mechanism of BIM application barriers in prefabricated construction and driving strategies from stakeholders’ perspectives

Abstract

Although building information modeling application in prefabricated construction (PC-BIM) has become an inevitable trend, current PC-BIM is far from ideal. There are some researches on PC-BIM barriers, however, which stakeholder these barriers come from, what influences they have on each other and how to find the effective transmission paths have not been explored yet which is essential to overcome barriers effectively. Thus, this study aims to make deep analysis of PC-BIM barriers based on stakeholder’s perspectives. After literature review and focus group interviews with 13 authoritative experts, the barrier network based on stakeholders was established and analyzed. With the social network analysis, the critical barriers, stakeholders, together with their interaction relationships and the transmission paths were found and corresponding strategies based on path mining are proposed. This study is of great significance to promote PC-BIM in practice and shed light on the interaction mechanism analysis and driving path mining.

Keywords

• Prefabricated construction (PC)
• Building Information Modeling (BIM)
• Stakeholder
• Social network analysis (SNA)
• Critical barriers
• Driving strategies