BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM) PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION ASSESSEMENT: THE CASE OF ETHIOPIAN CONSTRUCTION WORKS CORPORATION (ECWC)

Abstract

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is rapidly growing technology worldwide as a reliable instrument for improving the efficiency of construction industry. Developed countries are using BIM to overcome difficulties and achieve the benefits from implementing BIM. Currently, the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry is considered one of the mega contributors to development in Ethiopia. However, the industry is facing major difficulties such as unfulfilled client requirement, delay in time, cost overrun, quality issues, conflicts among stakeholders, safety issues, high requests of change order, increasing in material wastes and project complexity. Since Ethiopian construction Works Corporation (ECWC) is one of the major contractor company in Ethiopia, it is characterized by the above difficulties. , therefore there is an urgent need to adopt the latest technologies and management strategies to eradicate the recognized problems and to improve the performance of the AEC industry in ECWC. This research used a primary data analyzed using descriptive analysis to rank the factors which are identified from different studies and determine the key pushing factors and key barriers to implement BIM in ECWC and inferential analysis to investigate the variance in perception of different respondent groups from a total of 74 respondents.