BIM and Future of Quantity Surveyors in Malaysia’s Construction Industry
Over the past era, the complicated procedures and complexity of designs had become challenging to the Quantity Surveying practices. Errors in term of quantities and time consumption are the major impact on Quantity Surveyors when it comes to performing their task. Building Information Modelling (BIM...
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| author | Chan, Wai Bin Farhana, Mohd Zaini Nurulhuda, Ahamad Sangeetha, Arjinan Zetty, Pakir Mastan |
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| description | Over the past era, the complicated procedures and complexity of designs had become challenging to the Quantity Surveying practices. Errors in term of quantities and time consumption are the major impact on Quantity Surveyors when it comes to performing their task. Building Information Modelling (BIM) has been introduced in 2012, developed and expanded in the construction industry to minimize errors while improving the efficiency of work in terms of time, cost, and accuracy of quantities measured. Thus, this research aims to identify the impact of BIM tools on the roles currently played by the Quantity Surveyors in our local industry. To achieve the aim, this research investigated the usage of BIM tools by the Quantity Surveying consultant firms by analysing the demand for its usage and its effect to the overall profession. A survey-based approach was conducted, whereby 33 sets of sampling size were identified through a random sampling method with only 25 sets of questionnaires received from the respondents. Findings from questionnaires showed that the adoption of BIM did leave significant impacts on Quantity Surveyors practices in the long run. Results have shown that the level of awareness on BIM is still low among the Quantity Surveyors. However, BIM is still worth being implemented as it could help to improve in terms of time saving and accuracy of measurement. This will improve the Quantity Surveyors' profession tremendously in the future |
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| spelling | intimal-14672024-03-22T06:28:32Z http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/1467/ BIM and Future of Quantity Surveyors in Malaysia’s Construction Industry Chan, Wai Bin Farhana, Mohd Zaini Nurulhuda, Ahamad Sangeetha, Arjinan Zetty, Pakir Mastan T Technology (General) TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TH Building construction Over the past era, the complicated procedures and complexity of designs had become challenging to the Quantity Surveying practices. Errors in term of quantities and time consumption are the major impact on Quantity Surveyors when it comes to performing their task. Building Information Modelling (BIM) has been introduced in 2012, developed and expanded in the construction industry to minimize errors while improving the efficiency of work in terms of time, cost, and accuracy of quantities measured. Thus, this research aims to identify the impact of BIM tools on the roles currently played by the Quantity Surveyors in our local industry. To achieve the aim, this research investigated the usage of BIM tools by the Quantity Surveying consultant firms by analysing the demand for its usage and its effect to the overall profession. A survey-based approach was conducted, whereby 33 sets of sampling size were identified through a random sampling method with only 25 sets of questionnaires received from the respondents. Findings from questionnaires showed that the adoption of BIM did leave significant impacts on Quantity Surveyors practices in the long run. Results have shown that the level of awareness on BIM is still low among the Quantity Surveyors. However, BIM is still worth being implemented as it could help to improve in terms of time saving and accuracy of measurement. This will improve the Quantity Surveyors' profession tremendously in the future INTI International University 2020 Article PeerReviewed text en cc_by_4 http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/1467/1/ij2020_50.pdf Chan, Wai Bin and Farhana, Mohd Zaini and Nurulhuda, Ahamad and Sangeetha, Arjinan and Zetty, Pakir Mastan (2020) BIM and Future of Quantity Surveyors in Malaysia’s Construction Industry. INTI JOURNAL, 2020 (50). ISSN e2600-7320 http://intijournal.newinti.edu.my |
| spellingShingle | T Technology (General) TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TH Building construction Chan, Wai Bin Farhana, Mohd Zaini Nurulhuda, Ahamad Sangeetha, Arjinan Zetty, Pakir Mastan BIM and Future of Quantity Surveyors in Malaysia’s Construction Industry |
| title | BIM and Future of Quantity Surveyors in Malaysia’s Construction Industry |
| title_full | BIM and Future of Quantity Surveyors in Malaysia’s Construction Industry |
| title_fullStr | BIM and Future of Quantity Surveyors in Malaysia’s Construction Industry |
| title_full_unstemmed | BIM and Future of Quantity Surveyors in Malaysia’s Construction Industry |
| title_short | BIM and Future of Quantity Surveyors in Malaysia’s Construction Industry |
| title_sort | bim and future of quantity surveyors in malaysia’s construction industry |
| topic | T Technology (General) TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TH Building construction |
| url | http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/1467/ http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/1467/ http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/1467/1/ij2020_50.pdf |