Abstract

Nowadays, with the evolvement of construction, project managers are facing more complex tactics to manage project and their cost, information, schedule, maintenance and more. The UK government have provided a new strategy to undertake project management; this strategy was set to become a mandate as of March 2016. ‘Building Information Modeling’ or also known as ‘BIM’ is a new strategy used to enhance collaboration between multi disciplines in the architecture, engineering, and construction sector with the use of technology. BIM level 2 was modified to suit the British standards and a publicly available specifications was set to provide a ‘common language’ to all disciplines in construction, and as of March 2016 58% of the construction companies in the UK have embedded BIM and 97% are planning on implementing BIM in the next 5 years (NBS, 2016). The UK government have set another goal to reach a new mandate of implementing BIM level 3 in construction. Since BIM is a new idea and the industry is providing training to implement it, it should be implemented in education to reach BIM level 3 target. Also, since BIM is a new idea, there is a large uncertainty of how to implement BIM in higher education and to identify the different teaching and learning strategies of BIM in education.

This paper provide an overview of the idea of BIM and will explain what BIM is and the platforms used to apply different levels and dimensions of BIM in the industry. Then, the literature about BIM in education will be provided to show the different collaboration methods and teaching/learning strategies that could be adopted.

The data obtained to formulate a strategy that would commend the methods used by Coventry University will be case studies of BIM implementation in education from researchers, academics and practitioners in the architecture, engineering, construction, owner and operator industry.