Survey of BIM Implementation in Turkish Construction Industry

BIM is a 3D model-based technology that involves everything related to a construction project within an integrated system of information management across the project life cycle. BIM has been explored and adopted widely across the world in construction industry related to its major role in increasing quality, productivity and efficiency in construction project management, design, documentations, plan and scheduling. This research is carried out to investigate the current state of BIM implementation in Turkish construction industry and to address barriers of BIM implementation and facilitators for BIM adoption in Turkey in order to improve BIM adoption and provide process to facilitate BIM application and to overcome challenges faced by professionals in construction industry. Questionnaire survey technique is used in this research to address barriers and obstacles of BIM implementation and to address facilitators for BIM adoption and directed at all professionals of Turkish construction industry. The results showed that top barriers to BIM implementation in Turkey are: lack of BIM education and training, lack of publicity, lack of client demand. Top facilitators addressed for BIM adoption are: providing training to staff on new process and workflow, providing training to staff on new software and technology and providing guidance on use of BIM. Keywords: Building Information Modeling, Turkish Construction Industry, BIM, Barriers, Facilitators.