Contextualizing learning approaches which shape BIM for maintenance
Built Environment Project and Asset Management
ISSN: 2044-124X
Article publication date: 6 July 2015
Abstract
Purpose
Studies of BIM examine the potential benefits in maintenance. There is also a perspective maintenance teams should be involved early in the building project process. The purpose of this paper is to address the lack of understanding on learning processes for BIM in maintenance in the early building project stage.
Design/methodology/approach
Case study is used to examine the context maintenance learn about BIM. Maintenance managers and project managers were interviewed where discussions centred on a new build project which introduced BIM and how it would impact current practices.
Findings
Learning happens at the early building project stage for BIM into maintenance influenced by external and internal contexts. The external context focuses on the UK government on being a catalyst for explorative learning. Meaning is added by maintenance teams through exploiting what is learnt from the external influence which is contextualized within current activities. Internal shaping of BIM is explored through building scenarios and exploitation learning occurs from past experiences of change which are inferred onto BIM. There is a necessary balance between exploration and exploitation learning in order to shape BIM for maintenance.
Research limitations/implications
The paper is limited to one case study, however, it takes an in-depth look at the development of BIM in maintenance and how it is understood in maintenance.
Originality/value
The contribution of the paper examines the context of learning in which BIM is shaped in maintenance.
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Acknowledgements
The author would like to acknowledge the interviewees for sharing their time and expertise in this research; input and support from Professor Whyte, University of Reading and Professor Miettinen and Miss Korpela, University of Helsinki as well as the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), funder of the Design Innovation Research Centre Award No. EP/H02204X/1 and the work conducted in this study.
Citation
Lindkvist, C. (2015), "Contextualizing learning approaches which shape BIM for maintenance", Built Environment Project and Asset Management, Vol. 5 No. 3, pp. 318-330. https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-03-2014-0018
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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