Construction Project with BIM Implementation - Kingsly PLC Case Study

This case study discusses the Kingsly Building and Construction PLC limited construction project in New Jersey, USA, which is a BIM project under projection. It elaborates on the technical aspects of Building Information Management, BIM application in construction projects, and the methodology used in this study. The study identifies numerous drawbacks that affect BIM implementation, including the ones most commonly established in the literature, which were determined at the organization level. The study concludes that companies have to overcome higher resistance regarding BIM implementation than projects.

Case Study: Construction Project with BIM Implementation
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CASE STUDY
KINGSLY PLC CONSTRUCTION PROJECT AT NEW JERSEY
Introduction
The construction project by Kingsly Building and Construction PLC limited which was
done in New Jersey New York city in the United States of America is the BIM project under
projection in this case study.
A project refers to a task or rather job that aims at attaining a particular set of objectives,
has a known start and end time, has a budget, scope, and quality (Geraldi & Söderlund ,2018)). It
is normally managed by a team comprising of stakeholders, who operate together throughout the
entire phases of the project from the beginning and terminate when the project comes to an end.
To ensure effective delivery of a quality project, only project management is necessary which
involves the use of tools, skills, knowledge and appropriate methodologies. A project normally
takes the following four stages; initiation phase, Designing and planning phase, Implementation
phase and finally the project closure or phase-out (Tonchia, Tonchia & Mahagaonkar ,2018).
Building information modeling is a process that is integrated and designed in a manner that
can coordinate information from design, construction to the final operation. More preferably, it
permits the engineers to quickly and easily foresee the performance and layout of projects prior to
the actual building (Martinez-Aires, Lopez-Alonso & Martinez-Rojas, 2018).
Technical Aspects of Building Information Management
In this subtopic, I’ll elaborate on several functions of the BIM with respect to its various
features;
i. Clash control- the building information models of various levels are collected and verified for
geometrical designs.
ii. An aspect of time estimation (4D) - estimation of time during the project running helps to
minimize extra costs to be incurred.
iii. An aspect of cost estimation (5D) –Cost estimating is currently a time-consuming process,
requiring an entire team of estimators. There are multiple factors hindering the transition to model-
based estimating; however, the risks are justified by the benefits of estimating with BIM. Building
Information Modelling has the capability to automate a quantity take-off, which will reduce the
time and costs required to estimate a project; however, the industry is not using BIM for
estimating this helps to estimate the prices of a variety of objects in 3D (Saieg, Sotelino,

Nascimento & Caiado, 2018). The BIM should be implemented step by step in each phase to
ensure the smooth process of implementation.
BIM Application in Construction Project
The construction industries have been facing patterned changes to;
(i) Improve output, efficiency, infrastructure value, quality, and sustainability.
(ii) Reduce; lifecycle costs, lead times and copies, through effective collaboration and
communication of stakeholders in construction projects. Digital construction is an initiative to
tackle low productivity in the sector. This aims to integrate tasks throughout the entire lifecycle by
using BIM systems. This helps to minimize the numerous errors that were made while using
traditional methodologies.
The communication benefit that BIM provides is essential for project managers and corresponds to
what was described in theory to conclude that the client’s goals with a project are often hard to
interpret (Fisher et al, 2018). communication is crucial for creating understanding regarding a
client’s goals with a project (Kong, Liu & Wang, 2018).
Methodology
An interview, site visits, project documentation analysis, and the desktop study was
conducted to analyze the construction industry’s use of Building Information modeling for cost
and time estimating in the US. The survey was conducted to understand the role of BIM’s to
develop cost estimates for construction projects. Academic research included reviewing academic
papers and testing BIM software to examine the difficulties in switching from traditional
estimating methods to estimating with Building Information Modelling.
Responses were categorized to identify whether participants were employed by small,
medium, or large companies. The first step in the survey was to obtain information about the
survey participants. Participants were asked about the size of their company, their location, and
their job description. The second category of questions related to BIM software, as participants
were asked what BIM programs they are currently using, how estimating programs are being
paired with BIM, and if BIM is being utilized for quantity take-off, pricing, and scheduling
(Keskin, Ozorhon & Koseoglu, 2019). Linker scale-based questions were used to analyze the

accuracy and difficulty in performing quantity take-offs with BIM. Survey participants were also
asked if BIM improves the quality of estimates or decreases the amount of time required for cost
estimating. The survey was completed by members of the construction industry throughout the
United States. The survey was completed by individuals in a variety of positions within the
construction industry, including owners, vice presidents, BIM managers, BIM engineers,
estimators, and architects, the researchers were able to identify the most cited challenge associated
with BIM implementation, as per the literature (Neves, Sampaio & Vilela, 2019). After compiling
and identifying the importance of each challenge related to BIM implementation, the list of
compiled challenges was subjected to a constrained pile sort. This allowed researchers to sort the
identified limitations to categories (Olawumi & Chan ,2019). The three categories for the study
were the applicability of the identified challenge to project, organization, or both. Therefore, at the
end of this phase, the authors were able to determine a comprehensive list of challenges impacting
BIM implementation and then associate each challenge to earlier established categories
Conclusion and Discussion
The main intention of this study was to identify pitfalls in connection with the adoption of
BIM, after thoroughly going through the literature, after analyzing several types of research, the
study was able to determine numerous drawbacks that affect BIM implementation. Much of these
problems, including the ones most commonly established in the literature, were determined at the
organization level. This indicates that companies have to overcome higher resistance regarding
BIM implementation than projects. Most of the significant barriers dealt with the training of
employees, lack of national standards for BIM in the US, management of data, and interoperability
of the software. In addition, two of the three most commonly identified barriers “Time needed for
hiring/training people to use BIM, and Cost of hiring or training people to use BIM” dealt with
economic conditions of the company and its ability to invest in maintaining innovativeness and
competitiveness. These two barriers can be crucial for small and medium-sized design and
construction companies.

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