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Expanding uses of building information modeling in life-cycle construction projects

Issue title: IEA 2012: 18th World congress on Ergonomics - Designing a sustainable future

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Hannele, Kerosuo | Reijo, Miettinen | Tarja, Mäki | Sami, Paavola | Jenni, Korpela | Teija, Rantala

Affiliations: Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Center for Research on Activity, Development and Learning, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 9 (Siltavuorenpenger 3A), 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland

Note: [] Corresponding author: Dr. Hannele Kerosuo. Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Center for Research on Activity, Development and Learning, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 9 (Siltavuorenpenger 3A), 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland. Tel. +358 9 191 44275, Fax +358 9 191 44579. E-mail: [email protected].

Keywords: building information modeling, activity theory, multi-partner project collaboration, design, construction

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0144-114

Journal: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 114-119, 2012

Published: 2012
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Abstract

BIM is targeted at providing information about the entire building and a complete set of design documents and data stored in an integrated database. In this paper, we study the use of BIM in two life-cycle construction projects in Kuopio, Finland during 2011. The analysis of uses of BIM and their main problems will constitute a foundation for an intervention. We will focus on the following questions: (1) How different partners use the composite BIM model? (2) What are the major contradictions or problems in the BIM use? The preliminary findings reported in this study show that BIM has been adopted quite generally to design use but the old ways of collaboration seem to prevail, especially between designers and between designers and building sites. BIM has provided new means and demands for collaboration but expansive uses of BIM for providing new interactive processes across professional fields have not much come true.

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