Assessment of BIM for Managing Scheduling Risks in Construction Project Management.

Abstract

Poor risk management is among major challenges facing the construction industry on issues of timely project completion. Although risk factors are numerous, the nature of construction projects being prone to changes during execution makes it difficult to adequately capture risk aspects related to scheduling and timely project completion. Traditional 2D computer-based tools do not adequately utilize digitised computable information, thus limited in capturing construction risk. Hence, the exploitation of emerging BIM to bridge this gap is now being noted in construction project management. This study investigates the application of BIM in managing scheduling risk of construction projects. Being the preliminary part of an ongoing research, the investigation is carried out through a desk-top study. We argue that in order to properly minimize the risk of schedule delay in projects; construction sequencing activities need to be adequately digitised and BIM offers the opportunity to integrate vital aspects of project management that considerably improve scheduling risk management.