Effective framework for adopting BIM for automation in remote construction project: an analysis from the Australian construction perspective

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1 Project Title
Effective framework for adopting BIM for automation in remote construction project: an
analysis from the Australian construction perspective
2 Project Summary/Abstract
Construction projects are generally complex in nature. It requires planning and execution of
various construction regard activities. Application of BIM technology has become very popular
in construction projects for bringing innovation, accuracy and excellence in project planning and
execution. Construction projects are often delayed either due to lack of proper planning on not
following that planning properly. This research provides a comprehensive framework for
adopting BIM in the Australian construction projects. This framework will help companies to
identify issues in the adoption of this technology and strategies that they need to follow for
ensuring that execution of project through this BIM technology is effective and in accordance
with the requirements and constraints in the Australian construction projects.
3 Project Outline
3.1 Introductory Background
Here in this context, a brief introductory description of the problem and issues
are described that provides the context for the proposed research. The remote
construction project is the execution of the construction work remotely without
direct communication between project authority and project team (Hay et al.
2017). Now, this makes the execution of construction work difficult because
due to the remote location of the project it becomes difficult for project authority
to control construction workflow efficiently. This also leads to a lack of
coordination between the project teams who need to work remotely.
Construction projects are generally complex in nature. It requires planning and
execution of various construction regard activities. This involves designing a
construction plan, providing construction architecture, communicating between
project teams, preparing a detailed construction schedule, executing
construction activities according to the plan and providing a complete
construction project to the client (Zuo et al. 2017).
Now all of these activities need to be executed properly as issues in one of
these activities will affect the overall execution of the project. Construction
projects are often delayed either due to lack of proper planning on not following

that planning properly. Now in both of these cases the project is scheduled to
be delayed which not only increases the time to complete the project but also
increase the project budget as well (Rahmani, Maqsood and Khalfan 2017). It
often becomes difficult to ensure that these issues are minimized even onsite
projects, therefore, remote construction projects are even more difficult to
execute properly while minimizing this issue and maximizing project success
through effective project planning, execution and project leadership.
3.2 Research Questions
The primary research questions that are considered in this research project
are the followings:
 Is automation required in construction project, especially projects
that are executed remotely?
 What are the factors that affects adoption of advanced
construction technologies in Australian construction projects?
 Why Australian construction companies are slow in adopting BIM
for project execution
 Is comprehensive framework available for deploying BIM in
remote construction projects in Australia?
This research questions will provide a detailed guideline for executing the
research. This research questions are considered in accordance with the
project aims and objectives defined in this context for ensuring that the project
is original and the research findings are significant for various Australian
organizations that are considering to adopt BIM in remote construction
projects.
3.3 Aims/Objectives of the Project
Although, developed countries have already adopted BIM in managing
construction projects, this is not the scenario in Australian construction
projects. The main reason that organizations in Australia has not adopted this
technology yet in large scale, is lack of proper and effective strategies for
which efficient framework is required. Hence, the main aim of the project is to
analyse issues in construction project from Australian perspective with detailed
research about application of BIM technology in Australian projects, especially
for remote construction projects. Along with that, this research aims to provide
different strategies in deploying BIM in remote construction and design an
effective framework for providing a comprehensive framework for integrating
BIM technology in Australian remote construction projects so that it is easier for
the Australian organizations to execute remote construction project.
3.4 Significance/Contribution to the discipline
The remote construction project is the execution of the construction work
remotely without direct communication between project authority and project
team. Now, this makes the execution of construction work difficult because due
to the remote location of the project it becomes difficult for project authority to
control construction workflow efficiently (Kestle and McKernan 2018). This also
leads to a lack of coordination between the project teams who need to work
remotely.

Construction projects are generally complex in nature. It requires planning and
execution of various construction regard activities. This involves designing a
construction plan, providing construction architecture, communicating between
project teams, preparing a detailed construction schedule, executing
construction activities according to the plan and providing a complete
construction project to the client (Puolitaival, McMullan and Kestle 2018). Now
all of these activities need to be executed properly as issues in one of these
activities will affect the overall execution of the project. Construction projects
are often delayed either due to lack of proper planning on not following that
planning properly. Now in both of these cases the project is scheduled to be
delayed which not only increases the time to complete the project but also
increase the project budget as well. It often becomes difficult to ensure that
these issues are minimized even onsite projects, therefore, remote
construction projects are even more difficult to execute properly while
minimizing this issue and maximizing project success through effective project
planning, execution and project leadership (Hong et al. 2019).
In order to deal with issues of a construction project, organizations around the
world are considering the adoption of technology for automating most of the
construction work to more speed and accuracy of execution of those activities
which otherwise is difficult to ensure manually through human expertise.
Application of BIM technology has become very popular in construction
projects for executing construction projects through the application of
technology. Countries around the world are adopting this BIM software for
bringing innovation, accuracy and excellence in project planning and execution
(Kim et al. 2016). Developed countries like the UK have already made it
mandatory for a footing BIM in construction for getting government funds for
completing projects. However, Australia is still behind in this approach and
most of the construction projects are Australia are either not familiar with this
technology or they do not have proper knowledge for adopting this technology
in construction planning and execution (Rodgers et al. 2015).
One of the main constraints of implementing BIM in the Australian construction
project is ensuring that the application of this technology is consistent with the
organizational change that automation might bring in the project execution
(Swift et al. 2017). Hence a comprehensive framework is required so that it
becomes easier for the construction companies in Australia to implement this
technology with expertise for ensuring success in the project (Forsythe,
Sankaran and Biesenthal 2015).
This research is therefore important in this context as it aims to prove a
comprehensive framework for adopting BIM in the Australian construction
projects. This framework will help companies to identify issues in the adoption
of this technology and strategies that they need to follow. Before organizations
start integrating this technology in construction projects, it is important for them
to analyze what are major issues that they might need to deal with in their
projects. While analyzing this issue, it is important to identify that issues for
remote construction projects are not same in every country and this changes
significantly according to the national context (Zhao 2017). Hence, it is
important to analyze this issues from Australian project context. This research
has therefore identified issues and constraints that are relevant in Australian
context which helps in projecting these issues in remote construction projects.
Therefore this framework that is provided in this research is consistent with the
projects requirements in Australia.