| 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. |
