Design Management Using Building Information Modeling: In Case of Projects in Addis Ababa
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2020
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Addis Ababa University
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Design is a major part of a building project which must be planned and managed carefully. Design management aims to improve the design quality by creating managerial techniques. Poor design management contribute to poor design quality, less integration, poor communication, and frequent reworks. This impact will propagate throughout the project life cycle.
Building information modeling is a methodology that provide integrated platform for designing which enable the multi-disciplinary working under a collaborative environment. BIM also known as a revolution in industry, many countries have adopted BIM based design process by understanding its benefits. This research objectives accordingly were focused on design management using BIM and assess the conventional design management practice of category one consultant within Addis Ababa.
To achieve the above objectives the research design employed questionnaire survey and case study research which is descriptive type in nature. ICT park design project and ZIAS consulting firms’ projects are the case studies taken as a baseline to describe design management using BIM. Case studies were analyzed using structured interviews and document review. To assess the design management practice of category one consultant, questionnaire survey was also used as data collection tool.
The major finding of this research is that even if BIM is not fully implemented in both case studies, design management process has been improved through better communication and collaboration, visualization, design coordination and included constructability and maintainability concepts have been observed from the case studies. In the meanwhile, both case studies have been confronted with infrastructure, software interoperability, lack of expertise in the field and process-based challenges. Besides that, the research also indicated that traditional design management have gaps and challenges in improving the industry. As a result, the research recommends the adoption of BIM as it improves the current design management of consultants in Ethiopia.
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BIM, Current practice, Design Management, Design proces