KIT's College of Engineering

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is one of the major development that has been seen in Architectural, Engineering, Construction, and Operation (AECO) industry over the last two decades. Many countries have taken a shift towards BIM adoption. Government organizations have made BIM implementation mandatory for contractors while delivering their projects. Many countries like the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, China, the Scandinavian countries (Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden, etc.), France, South Korea, etc. as adopted BIM technology at public level projects. Government bodies played an important role in encouraging the adoption and in spreading awareness of BIM by setting law, developing BIM standards, creating BIM guidelines that can be taken up by the private sector, and can be implemented. Cheng and Lu (2015) have conducted an extensive review of how several countries had invested their efforts in BIM technology and workflow diffusion in their projects. India having a multi-billion dollar AECO industry and is the second-largest growing industry has tremendous potential and scope for growth of BIM. Although the nation has shown a significantly slow growth in BIM adoption due to many barriers in the current system as a whole it's changing rapidly. However, we witnessed inclination towards real estate, particularly residential real estate projects. According to sources, usage of BIM in the infrastructure and industrial development domains is gaining pace. AECO industry players’ states BIM usage, about sixty-eight percent on residential projects and highest usage was recorded in infrastructure sectors as per a study by RICS India (Sawhney et al. 2014).