Enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency by adopting building information modelling in the service delivery of the quantity surveying practice of Sri Lanka

Abstract

The global construction industry is moving in the direction of widespread application of BIM technique (Raic, 2007). In the worldwide construction sector, particularly in the Quantity Surveying field, there has been a paradigm change from traditional service delivery techniques to completely automated, by using BIM (Jayasena & Weddikkara, 2013). Jayasena and Wedikkara (2013) emphasized, implementation of BIM applications for the Quantity Surveying practice is a fear among Quantity Surveyors in Sri Lanka since the professional’s existence is disturbed by the threatening and challenging nature created when employing BIM within the QS practice (Nagalingam, Jayasena, & Ranadewa, 2016). The problem is to identify the factors contributing to the delay in using BIM in the QS contribution to the project. The QS needs to escalate the usage of BIM by understanding its potentials and developing streamlined methods to incorporate BIM into their current and future professional practices (Partridge, 2015). The main aim of this research study is to enhance the delivery of service in an effective and efficient manner by employing BIM applications within the QS practice in Sri Lanka where the objectives are to discover the current state of usage of BIM application in the Quantity Surveying field, to analyse the barriers influencing the implementation of BIM, to determine strategies to encourage the use of BIM to escalate the effectiveness and efficiency within the Quantity Surveying operations in Sri Lanka.