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Exploring the challenges and future opportunities for Building
Information Modelling (BIM) in the refurbishment process
Based on a BIM report carried out by the NBS, 92% of people expect to be using BIM within 3
years (2015, p11)
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The direction BIM is
heading towards means it’s inevitable that there will be an abundance of opportunities to
implement BIM in the refurbishment process
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Aim
Investigate BIM’s potential and the challenges involved in the refurbishment process
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The literature will provide a depth of knowledge that can be utilised to
examine the projects objectives
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It’s important to determine the
correct research questions to avoid irrelevant research
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The project will also include a questionnaire with a variety of
professionals in the industry to provide an insight into responses from people in the work
place
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Figure 3 – BIM collaboration
Sourced from Archinect
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In terms of
property development, however, it’s utilisation has been limited by several detrimental factors
such as time, cost and unsuitability
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2015) revealing that 26& of firms
admitting that a lack of relevant skills was the reason they didn’t adopt BIM
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The questions are focused on
analysing BIM in it’s current use in
refurbishments, it’s future opportunities and
investigating the drawbacks to using BIM for
refurbishments
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The questionnaire has been designed and is ready to run a pilot study before sending out to
participants
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During the waiting period for the questionnaire responses, work on the remaining chapters can
be completed in preparation for a first draft
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• The representatives from each
organisation will be chosen based
upon their job role and their
involvement and experience of
BIM
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The assessed literature will be based
upon AEC research that has reviewed
the implementation of refurbishing
existing structures in BIM
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For example (Volk et
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2014) asserted that “While BIM
processes are established for new
buildings, the majority of existing
buildings is not maintained,
refurbished, or deconstructed with BIM
yet”
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This will help to
establish where future opportunities
may lie
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(2015) AEC Firms aspiring to be a Fortune 500 company should
Adopt BIM
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com/firms/release/118849956/aec-firms-aspiring-tobe-a-fortune-500-company-should-adopt-bim/137915188
Waterhouse, R
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Retrieved from
http://www
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com/

Figure 1 – Gantt Chart, blue means completes, amber is in progress, red yet to be started

Volk, R; Stengel, J; Schultmann, F
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Retrieved
from:
https://www
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net/publication/259518042_Building_Inform
ation_Modeling_(BIM)_for_existing_buildings__Literature_review_and_fut
ure_needs_Autom
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