TY  - CONF
TI  - Barriers to the Adoption of Building Information Modeling in Quantity Surveying Practice in South Africa
C1  - Lille, France
C3  - Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC31)
SP  - 41
EP  - 49
PY  - 2023
DO  - 10.24928/2023/0137
AU  - Otasowie, Kenneth
AU  - Aigbavboa, Clinton
AU  - Ikuabe, Matthew
AU  - Adekunle, Peter
AU  - Oke, Ayodeji
AU  - Adekunle, Samuel
AD  - cidb Centre of Excellence and Sustainable Human Settlement and Construction Research Centre, Faculty of  Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
AD  - University of Johannesburg, South Africa
AD  - University of Johannesburg, South Africa
AD  - University of Johannesburg, South Africa
AD  - University of Johannesburg, South Africa
AD  - University of Johannesburg, South Africa
AB  - One of the occupations in the construction sector is quantity surveying (QS). This duty is essential to the accomplishment of a construction project since it decides whether it will be finished on schedule, on budget, and to the requisite standard. The practice has received several criticisms for failing to correctly carry out her duties. Adoption of contemporary technology like Building Information Modeling (BIM) in its practice has become necessary to eliminate mistakes, inaccuracies, and omissions. However, South African QS practitioners face challenges in implementing BIM. Hence, this study seeks to examine these challenges. A survey approach was utilised. Ninety (90) of the one hundred and fifteen (115) questionnaires that were distributed to quantity surveyors in Guateng Province, SA were returned and considered appropriate for analysis Kruskal-Wallis, percentage, mean item score, and standard deviation were used to analyse the collected data. The results indicate that the main obstacles to the adoption of BIM in QS practice are a lack of BIM competence, a lack of government enforcement, opposition to change, and a lack of client demand for BIM. This study therefore suggests that BIM trainings be given top priority and that the government take the initiative in promoting BIM adoption throughout the nation, especially for public projects.
KW  - BIM Adoption
KW  - Barriers
KW  - Profession
KW  - Quantity Surveying
KW  - South Africa.
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T2  - Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC31)
DA  - 2023/06/26
CY  - Lille, France
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2078/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2078
N1  - Export Date: 24 April 2025
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -