CONCEPTUALISING BUILDING INFORMATION MODELLING FOR CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION
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2020
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VGTU Press
Abstract
Digitalisation of the construction industry is both driving changes in construction education to meet emerging
industry needs and providing opportunities for new delivery approaches. Universities are responding to these challenges
in diverse ways including in their use of Building Information Modelling for construction education (BfCE). This research
is aimed at understanding the existing approaches to BfCE. A systematic literature review of BfCE in universities was carried
out which identified 305 relevant articles including 44 specific cases of BfCE. These were qualitatively analysed and a
Straussian Theory Model (STM) was adopted to understand the different BfCE approaches reported in the literature, the
contextual and intervening conditions which give rise to them and their consequences in order to develop a conceptual
framework which sets out the relationships between these and the digitalisation of the construction industry. This study
provides construction educators with a descriptive typology that depicts all possible BfCE approaches and which could assist
them in determining suitable approaches and to conceptualise new approaches for teaching students to use Building
Information Modelling (BIM) and also for leveraging BIM to enhance their teaching of other topics.
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Building Information Modelling, BIM education, AEC-FM, Grounded Theory, Straussian Theory Model, systematic literature review, construction education
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Olowa, Theophilus, Emlyn Witt, and Irene Lill. "Conceptualising building information modelling for construction education." Journal of Civil Engineering and Management 26, no. 6 (2020): 551-563.