BIM-Supported Knowledge Collaboration: A Case Study of a Highway Project in China

Chaojie Miao, Hao Wang (), Xianhai Meng, Xiangyu Hou, Yanling Yan, Shenglin Liu and Yuqing He
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Chaojie Miao: Chongqing Yuxiang Double-Track Expressway Ltd., Chongqing 408500, China
Hao Wang: School of Economics and Management, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China
Xianhai Meng: School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT9 5AG, UK
Xiangyu Hou: Chongqing Yuxiang Double-Track Expressway Ltd., Chongqing 408500, China
Yanling Yan: School of Economics and Management, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China
Shenglin Liu: School of Economics and Management, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China
Yuqing He: School of Economics and Management, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 20, 1-25

Abstract: Collaboration is challenging in highway building projects since there are always a number of stakeholders involved, each with different responsibilities, backgrounds, objectives, and competing interests. The basis for addressing collaboration problems in building projects is knowledge. Knowledge management (KM) can benefit greatly from the distinctive characteristics of BIM (building information modeling). Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate knowledge collaboration in highway construction projects that is enabled by BIM. It first explores the motivations behind and difficulties with using BIM for knowledge-based collaboration. Next, it looks for possible ways to overcome those difficulties. It employs a large highway project as a study case in China. It uses in-depth interviews with a range of contractors working on this project to comprehend the difficulties they face in working together and investigate ways that BIM-supported KM can help stakeholders collaborate more effectively. Ultimately, it creates a conceptual model for knowledge-driven collaborative management within the BIM environment, offering both a theoretical framework and useful direction for knowledge-based collaboration amongst various stakeholders. The study explores the advantages of BIM characteristics in knowledge collaboration, which provides empirical evidence for the transformation from traditional IT-based knowledge collaboration to BIM-based knowledge collaboration in large and complex highway projects.

Keywords: building information modeling (BIM); knowledge management; collaboration management; knowledge resources (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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