BIM in Building and Infrastructure Construction
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2025 | Viewed by 17
Special Issue Editors
Interests: BIM; HBIM; BIM education; applied technology; innovation and change management
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: BIM implementation; digital transformation; asset management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
BIM as a data and graphical enabler continues to pervade and enhance design, construction, operation, decommission and reuse of buildings and infrastructure. Buildings and infrastructure can be considered at multiple levels: the elemental level, the subcomponent level, the component level, the subassembly level, the assembly level, the system level, in terms of holistic buildings and infrastructure and as agents and actors within larger environmental systems. Determined by standards and standard forms of operation, the format and form of BIM as well as its application and data manifestations continue to evolve. For project teams, organizations and the building industry to effectively adopt BIM, best practice from academia and case studies needs to be disseminated. This Special Issue aims to provide a resource of options and insights to assist in the fuller utilization of BIM capabilities. Capabilities may be contained within one discipline or domain or be cross discipline or cross domain, and application can be activity, project or portfolio related. Evidence of beneficial concepts and applications are expected to form the basis of this Special Issue. Methods of benefit analysis, BIM maturity assessment and KPI analysis may also be submitted.
Dr. Stephen Paul Coates
Dr. Mustapha Munir
Prof. Dr. Eilif Hjelseth
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- BIM
- BIM benefits
- BIM application
- BIM maturity
- BIM utilization
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