- Title
- Contractual implications of Building Information Modelling implementation: a case study of the GC21 contract
- Creator
- Manderson, Aaron; Jefferies, Marcus; Brewer, Graham
- Relation
- RICS COBRA AUBEA 2015: The Construction, Building and Real Estate Research Conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors / The Australasian Universities’ Building Educators Association Conference (COBRA 2015). COBRA AUBEA 2015 (Sydney 08-10 July, 2015)
- Relation
- http://www.rics.org/au/knowledge/research/conference-papers/contractual-implications-of-building-information-modelling-implementation--a-case-study-of-the-gc21-contract
- Publisher
- Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- This research focuses on the BIM legal challenges and identified 10 main thematic areas including a number of key subthemes. As the adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM) increases throughout the Architectural, Engineering and Construction (AEC) Sector, the short-comings of current standard contracts have become apparent. Existing research has focused on identifying the legal constraints on BIM adoption without a systematic analysis of standard contracts to identify changes needed to facilitate BIM integration. This study focuses on the BIM legal challenges and identified 10 main thematic areas including a number of key subthemes. These themes form a Qualitative Content Analysis coding frame that is applied to a standardised construction contract. The critical findings of the analysis identifies that the contract uses a ‘traditional’ procurement method that inhibits collaboration, relies on proprietary file formats for data transfer, does not recognize the model as a contract document or include BIM specific processes and protocols. The outcomes of this research provide a mechanism for identifying changes required to contracts for BIM adoption, a transitional roadmap to collaborative BIM adoption and possible avenues for future research.
- Subject
- Building Information Modelling (BIM); GC21 contract; legal barriers; qualitative content analysis; standardised contracts
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1316786
- Identifier
- uon:23264
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781783210718
- Language
- eng
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