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The Importance of Implementation and

Collaboration of BIM in the Indian Construction
Industry
M. Bhuvanesh Kumar1*, P. S. Manoj Kumar2
1,2
PG Student, Department of Civil Engineering, Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College, Chennai, India
*Corresponding author: [email protected]

Abstract: Building Information Modelling is an upcoming important aspect to encourage the construction industry to
digital portrayal of physical and working characteristics. BIM is a embrace it as a new method for delivering the projects.
digitalized sequence for Creating 3d visualization, coordinating Effective planning is an important aspect of a construction
for planning, designing, estimating, and scheduling. The BIM
software enhances us to use the latest virtual reality tool to project and influences the success of a project.
perceiving construction peculiarity. The expediency of
effectuating BIM is to upgrade the foresee part of the building 3. BIM Implementation in India
structure, and MEP systems. The conventional organization
structure can be replaced by Building Information Modelling. A. BIM Implementation
This paper oversees the overall execution of BIM in India at In India, the AEC industry (Architecture, Engineering,
different stages of the construction process and hurdles in Construction) is the second largest industry after the agriculture
successive implementation of it. industry. 3.5 crore people are employed in the AEC industry in
Keywords: Building information modelling, BIM
India and has 2nd highest FDI (Foreign Direct Investment). Its
Implementation, BIM in India, BIM Status in India. handout about 11.1% of India’s GDP [4]. There many colossal
projects taken up recently, for are Example, sophisticated
1. Introduction roadways or expressways, Metro train projects, and the put
forward bullet train project between two cities of India.
In the construction industry, Building Information Modelling
Countries like the USA, The United Kingdom, Netherland,
comes to light as forefront technology. The BIM concept
Singapore, Japan Australia, and a few other countries have
emerged during the 1970s. BIM software enhances us to use the
Authorized the use of BIM in the Public sector [3]. Many
latest virtual reality tool to perceiving construction peculiarity.
countries have a high proportion of BIM users for their AEC
The expediency of effectuating BIM is to upgrade the foresee
Projects.
part of the building structure, and MEP systems. And it also
recognizes the potential dispute between the building systems.
A large amount of time and money can be cut back at the pre-
construction stage by recognizing these disputes. [1].
Effective planning is one of the most important aspects of a
construction project and influences the success of a project. The
construction industry suffers from a lot of problems comparing
with other industries. Construction projects are unique and a
prototype within themselves. Involvements of multi-
disciplinary teams often disagree among their methodologies
(e.g. working process, design review, constructability, etc.).
Moreover, errors and omissions in paper-based design
documents, communication gaps with other stakeholders;
schedule conflict, delays, and unanticipated field costs are also Fig. 1. BIM adoption on worldwide from public sector
a primary concern for lower productivity of the industry [2].
Worldwide, BIM recognition increase in a good way for the
2. Awareness in BIM added advantages it is brought to the AEC industry. Currently,
researchers create awareness of the BIM execution process, 65 countries are doing research work in BIM.
its advantages, and its disadvantages are emphasized. It is an BIM has been endorsed in the higher education system in
more than Twenty-five Countries. And several national-level
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organizations back BIM adoption and application in more than the survey answerers who were dealing with BIM in project
31 countries are shown in fig. 1. workflow are from a Design company. Showing that BIM
1) BIM Implementation areas maturity in India is most probably falls under the design stage.
BIM ranges from very limited in scope, concentrating BIM diffusion in construction and operation stages is yet to
entirely on the technology aspect, to very broad, surrounding mature in the coming days.
other organizational and functional aspects such as governance,
processes, standards, and people.
1. Governance - The basis of a BIM application is the
organized management of its deployment, service,
acquiescence, and presentation.
2. Modeling & Deliverables - At the core of BIM are
modeling workflows and deliverables standards that
specify the asset model and its downstream use in
other lifecycle phases.
3. Collaboration & Data Management - A collaboration
and accompanying data management framework
solution to control the sharing of relevant and accurate
information to all project stakeholders.
4. Integrated Analyses – During each lifecycle phase
people need to analyze integrated asset models.
Analyses span 2D to 3D, 4D (time), 5D (cost), and
greater complexity.
2) Questionnaire Survey
IBIMA (India BIM Association) has conducted a
questionnaire survey to know the barriers for BIM diffusion in
the world market and prepared the questionnaire to understand
the problems that Indian Construction industry stakeholders are
confronted with using BIM technologies and progress in AEC
projects.
From February to September 2019, India BIM Association Fig. 2. Questionnaire Respondents location India’s BIM Project
collected Data from Indian AEC Stakeholders. From 26
locations IBIMA has received one hundred and forty responses It is very much essential to educate and train construction and
are shown in figure 2 within India and six other locations abroad operation stage stakeholders with BIM technology and
i.e. Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, and processes. It is necessary to make them realized that BIM
Dubai. diffusion will benefit the construction and operation team more
Other places from which considerable responses received than a design team. Fig. 3. The type of company in India
were Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Chennai, Construction Industry.
Bangalore, and Kolkata.
The Respondent's locations are 1.Srinagar, 2. Jammu,
3. Ludhiana, 4. New Delhi and Gurgaon, 5. Jaipur, 6. Udaipur,
7. Gandhi Nagar,8. Ahmadabad, 9. Ranchi, 10. Durgapur,
11. Kolkata, 12. Nagpur, 13. Aurangabad, 14. Pune, 15. Nashik,
16. Mumbai, 17. Hyderabad, 18. Bangalore, 19. Chennai,
20. Coimbatore, 21. Nagercoil, 22. Thrissur, 23. Kochi.
3) Respondent’s answers
Q1. Which type of company are you belong to?
Here, we noticed that most of the answerer were from the
design organization (forty-six percentage of respondents).
Around twenty-three percentage of the answerer was from an
engineering/developer company. And, twelve percent of the
answerer was from the construction company are shown in
Fig. 3. The Type of Organization in India Construction Industry
figure 3. Rest i.e. eighteen percent of the answerer was vendor
or suppliers, a professional or industry company, academic
institution, and other's category. This shows that the majority of Q2. About how many BIM-related employees work at your
company?
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Here, only one 130 answerers were obtained out of 140 The extraordinary BIM projects and their places in India.
answerers. Here, half of the answerers informed that more than From figure 3, we can pictorial the twelve great profile projects.
20 BIM employees in their company. And, more than a twenty- Further BIM projects are undertaken in India.
five percent of the answerers' organizations contains lesser than
5 BIM employee. From the Results on the pie chart, we can
understand that close to all the Indian AEC companies have a
large number of very low BIM employees. It is our take away
that most of these companies either deal with larger and
complicated projects or with very little projects.

Fig. 4. No. of BIM Employee Work at Organization in India

Q3. Which number of BIM associated projects is your

company presumed in?
Here, we received only a hundred and thirty-four answerers
Fig. 5. High Profile BIM Projects in India
from a hundred and forty answerers. 40 % of the answerers'
company was presumed with no greater than five BIM project The Project name and location are,
distributions. however, throughout 34% of the answerers' 1. Redevelopment of Proguthi Maidhan Complex, 2. Medical
companies were presumed in distribution greater than twenty College of Dr. BSAM Hospital Complex, 3. Gift Gold City
BIM projects. Project, Gandhinagar. 4. Dholera Smart City, 5. Bhopal Smart
This gives up an intimation that Indian AEC companies are City, 6. Nagpur Metro, 7. Aurangabad Industrial City hall
insistent sufficient in the world market to distribute BIM Building, 8. Student Welfare Center at Savitribai Phule Pune
projects. And, it is an effective line known to the world AEC University, 9. City Police Commissioner Head Quarters
company that India is also named as BIM cooperative space for Building in Hyderabad, 10. Central Square, Chennai.
its ability to distribute building information models at an Respective Indian AEC companies’ distribution BIM
acceptable price in the world market. projects to the regional and worldwide Clients. some of leading
India's BIM infusion contributors: AECM; Atkins; Ramboll
and Neilsoft: Arup; RSP; Larsen & Toubro; Hoctief; Mott
MacDonald. There are more than sixty other BIM infusion
contributors in India.

4. BIM Collaboration
BIM Collaboration is the process of identification of
different BIM phases for a given project and defining the
process of data and information sharing between these different
phases. In this case, 'data' refers to the data generated by
different software used in the different phases of the BIM
project. The data and users could be located in the same or
different geographical location offices.
Fig. 4. No. of BIM Project in Organizations of India BIM Collaboration process can appear complex with so
many things to think about Data creating, Software tools to use,
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Data management solutions, Information sharing, Permissions, drawing section to contribute to his field experience.
Data replications, etc.
B. Quantity Estimation
Give up with the potentiality for withdrawing a total of
components, areas, and measurement portions and material
proportion, Building Information Modelling quantity take-off
tools allow a rapid withdrawal of additional detailed
measurements and material proportion details [11]. As per the
quantities withdrawal from the model is higher detailed, the
homeowner is preserved from the over-budget project.
C. Clash Detection
Building Information Modelling-based clash observation
tools authorize geometry-based clash detection to be
collaborated with symbolic and rule-based clash examination
Fig. 6. Flow chart for BIM Collaboration phases
for recognizing qualified and structured collision.
Data Creation and Sharing relates to defining and organizing BIM-based clash observation software grants stakeholders to
data, developing data management solutions, and defining a selectively examine clashes in the middle of the designation
workflow to share the data. structure, like examine the clashes b/w mechanical and
Information Sharing involves defining the different stages structural systems, since each portion in the model is correlated
when information is shared within the same design discipline with a particular kind of system. Accordingly, the clash
and with the other design discipline, the permissions level status examines procedures that can be occurred at any level of detail
and version information of the data shared, etc. and across any number of building systems and trades [1].
Data Interoperability deals with the different data formats D. Productivity
involved in the project and defining workflows to bringing them With fifty percent of representative construction day being
together, including and data migration that might be required. ineffective, BIM utilization can be making use to obtain a
Communication & interaction relates to the notification and thirty-three-percentage increase by addressing late or
communication process through which the user is aware of the inaccurate information, waiting on resources, multiple material
latest status of project and design data artifacts. These could handling, hold back on guide, and modify. This will have a
include the dashboard, email notification, use of social media considerable higher in the abundance for the civil industry,
tools for instant two-way collaboration, etc. making it additional agreeable with abundance highs in other
sectors like the agriculture sector, manufacturing industries,
5. Benefits of BIM in Construction Industry transportation facilities, etc. [2]. We found that Building
A. Design and Planning Information Modelling is utilitarian to reduce the decay tariff of
BIM plays an important role over the whole life process of structural reinforcement and the consequence specify a high
projects to the demolition of building from scratch of possible for financial savings [8].
conceptual design. The make use of BIM in the project E. Prefabrication
organizing permits the project team to analyses place and
Building Information Modelling recommends manufacturers
realize the complexity of place standards and land
of construction components detailed and information-rich
pronouncement which saves schedule and provides them with
structures, which can be examined for manufacturing
the options of effecting high worth activities [6]. 3-D models
characteristics, can shrink information requests and better
can be produced from the structure model at any phase in the
production quality. An investigation of the utilization of
process. These can extend from uncomplicated wireframe
Building Information Modelling on a huge health protection
drawing to multiplex photorealistic portray [7].
project in the USA admits that it is workable to accomplish
This offers constancy in data produced from the realistic
100% manufacture for mechanical structure erections and no
model. This supports designers to conceptualize and
clashes in MEP fitting tasks. Like in turn, yielded 20-30% labor
authenticate their design. The stakeholder can extract advantage
reductions for the MEP sub-contractors, and thus decreases
of BIM usage at various stages of project design namely
beyond the utility chain [9].
representational design, elaborative design, and assembly
detailing [6]. F. Quality Management
BIM can model the structure virtually before realistic Building Information Modelling-related to construction
construction. therefore, investors can recommend the quality applying is acceptable and supportive in quality
modification preliminary in the planning and design session as observance management. Since, data constancy, it is realizable
per their demand. Also, contractors can participate early in the and practically to concern Building Information Modelling for
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quality management and to completely take advantage of Table 1

Different Barriers in the Construction Industry
design data through the imagination of the construction
Policy field players Technology Process field
procedure. Second Building Information Modelling can be field players players
suitable for contemporary industry-standard exercise in quality Require for
management [3]. Process of BIM IT Need for revising
introducing BIM in laboratory existing incomplete
G. Facility Management the AEC curriculum. facility in BIM curriculum.

In Academia
academics.
The information collected through a BIM process and stored
An initiative to
in a BIM-compliant database could be beneficial for a variety Resolving key issues Need for BIM
reduce weak ties
in delivering BIM technical
of FM (Facility Management) practices, such as commissioning between industry &
curriculum. officers.
and closeout, quality control and assurance, energy academia.
management, maintenance, and repair, and space management The need for Teaching BIM as
Initiative in
Std/guidelines both tech and
[10]. producing trained
aware of the Process in
BIM personnel.
BIM tool. academics.
H. Safety
People Education and
In considering hazards and threats earlier: The higher Technical barriers
barriers training barriers
functional form of safety process kicks off at the planning and Client driven
Absence of BIM
pre-construction level. The supplemental the project Expensive Software education and
limitations
training
advancement, the less occasion you have to dominate and Less
control construction accidents [3]. BIM owns you to review and importance
concentrate on hazards and threats preliminary within the Hardware towards BIM
Skill issues
design as data is allocated and synchronized between the project requirement adoption from
other team
group, those who produce make fine you have appropriate members
clearance maintenance sections. Lack of
Render or simulate and check circumstance without anybody talented
Organizational
come into injury: In a virtual world, you can be and do whatever Standard guidelines workforce to
In Industry

efforts
operate BIM
you like. Simulation in the construction sector grants you to test tools
circumstances and frameworks without nobody getting injured Work
[5]. This is especially convenient for field labor safety. practices and
Commercial
Combine this with elevated reality, and you can begin to layered Legal barriers process-
barriers
related
the imaginary model onto a real-constructive environment,
barriers
creation your circumstance uniform reasonable. Liability and Roles and
Insurances
Copyright issues Responsibilities
6. Barriers for BIM Implementation in Indian Changes in
Construction Industry National building practices and Capital for
codes use of investment
Execution of BIM has enlarged appreciably over the done information
tenner, and it qualifies the dissimilar stakeholders of a Third-party Key adopters of
construction process to get together greater all over its life dependence for Inefficient BIM (designers) will
accuracy of BIM regulatory not get immediate
sequence and better the occasion to division information and models benefits
reduce exhaustion.
Each hurdle can then be split up into subunits. Nevertheless, 7. Conclusion
the execution of BIM owns you to review and concentrate on
hazards and threats preliminary within the design struggle far BIM creates competency and also helps users to get several
beyond its probably because of the existence of dissimilar benefits. It gives back the feature that customer of all levels
hurdle. Building Information Modelling execution in the Indian realizes BIM as allocate them work greater, but rate reduction
AEC professionality has been constricted by many hurdles, is feasible to be realized by professional users. The high rated
which can be designated into six major sets: technical, legal, professional conveniences are: perceptible access to
people, commercial barriers, educational, and training. Several construction Information, Enables Easy Conflict Resolutions,
hurdles can then be split into sub-groups. Helps to Schedule the Construction Process.
To obtain consideration of the barriers that our Indian AEC BIM needs a significant alteration in traditional project
institutions are fronting, we did a spacious literature survey and delivery methods by changing the authority of every individual
argumentation with industry shareholders to accumulate a in the organization in India. To accomplish satisfaction from
feasible catalog of hurdles to come up with BIM projects. Building Information Modelling to the whole stretch, each
collaborator of the construction industry needs to incorporate it.
The barriers like interoperability, allowable issues, deficiency
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