Knowledge Transfer Partnership for BIM Implementation in the AEC Industry in Turkey

The Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC) industry is considered as a part of the largest sources of economy incomes. Despite its great importance, it is still suffering from many work process problems, in information, collaboration and communication management process and site product development. Building information modeling (BIM) has been presented to handle these problems and herewith improving outputs in construction projects. Implementation of BIM is not only a strategy of technology updating; there is also a need for substantial changes in work style to make upgrades to productivity progresses. Since many types of research have been done on BIM Implementation and putting forward different point of views about implementation criteria and strategy, it is still a problem for the AEC industry in Turkey so far. The purpose of this thesis is to invest the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) program in BIM implementation in AEC industry in Turkey by taking advantage of the United Kingdom (UK) successful experience. Moreover, providing strategy plan and recommendations for the Turkey AEC industry to implement BIM. However, throughout a comprehensive literature review, the paper initially mentions BIM maturity levels, critical success factors (CSFs), barriers and challenges face the implementation process which paves the road for a simple statistics analysis by using quantitative method. The data analysis of questionnaire amongst the major engineering faculty in Turkey and combining the results with results conducted on a previous study carried out on firms within the AEC industry.