Building information modelling (BIM)

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Arayici, Y., Egbu, C.O. and Coates, S.P., 2012. Building information modelling (BIM)
implementation and remote construction projects: issues, challenges, and critiques. Journal
of Information Technology in Construction, 17, pp.75-92.
The industry of construction has actually been facing a paradigm shift to increase efficiency,
productivity, quality, value of infrastructure and finally sustainability. Also the focus has been on
to reduce the cost of life cycle, duplications, lead times which are all achieved through effective
communication and collaboration of the stakeholders involved in the projects of the
constructions. In this particular paper, the author has sought to demonstrate how adoption of
BIM in the case of the architectural company assist in the mitigation of the communication as
well as management problems in the construction projects considered being remote. The research
indicated that some of the key communication as well as management problems including poor
quality of the works of construction, material unavailability, ineffective scheduling and planning
can be solved through adoption of BIM.
Fugar, F.D. and Agyakwah-Baah, A.B., 2010. Delays in building construction projects in
Ghana. Construction Economics and Building, 10(1-2), pp.103-116.
In this particular study, there was investigation of the factors which leads to the delays of the
construction of activities in Ghana so that the main one could be identified in regard to the
participants of the project including consultants, clients as well as contractors. During the
process of the study, there was identification of at least 32 causes as per the literature sources.
This particular list of the delay causes was later subjected to the analysis of questionnaire. The
importance of the individual causes was relatively calculated before they could be ranked as per
their importance index. Generally, the results of the study indicated that financial factors were

the highest ranked in the generated list as far as the factors causing delay in the construction
industry is concerned in the selected country of Ghana.
Han, S., Love, P. and Peña-Mora, F., 2013. A system dynamics model for assessing the
impacts of design errors in construction projects. Mathematical and Computer
Modelling, 57(9-10), pp.2044-2053.
The errors in the design which usually lead to the changes of design or rework have been
identified as the primary reasons for the delay of schedules as well as cost overruns in the
construction as well as design projects. Despite the fact that errors of the design have been
deemed to be very prevalent, majority of the construction as well as design firms never measure
the number of errors in the design during the process. This has potentially resulted into these
firms having very limited knowledge in regard to the mechanisms to determine the performance
of the project. In order to have this particular problem solved, the study aimed at developing a
system model which had the capacity to capture the design errors dynamics before assessing
their negative impacts. The study concluded that the model could assist project managers in
reduction of schedule delays through elimination of design errors.
Kostakis, V., Niaros, V., Dafermos, G. and Bauwens, M., 2015. Design global, manufacture
local: Exploring the contours of an emerging productive model. Futures, 73, pp.126-135.
The primary objective of the article was to contribute to the common debate which has been in
the progress regarding the post-capitalist construction. This was to be achieved through
exploration of the contours of the productive models which are commons-oriented. The model
was basically refered to as the “design global-manufacture local”. According to this particular
model, it was argued that the techno-economic developments which are known to surround