ASSESSEMENT OF THE ADOPTION OF BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM) TO SUPPORT FACILITY MANAGEMENT PRACTICE IN LAGOS NIGERIA

Abstract

The importance of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in this present world cannot be over emphasized, as BIM helps generate, store, manage exchange and share building information in an interoperable and reusable way. This research work assessed the adoption of BIM to support facility management practice in Lagos Nigeria with a view to create more awareness and improving efficiency and collaboration in the process of maintaining, operating and managing a facility. This research design was survey and facility management company that adopt BIM for facility management in Lagos were involved as the respondent through their facility managers and a total of 46 out of the 50 questionnaires distributed were collected and Analyzed. The study employed both descriptive and inferential statistics which include weighted mean score, chi square (cross tabulation) factor analysis and hierarchical clustering. Using the Pearson chi-square, it revealed that that there is no significant relationship between level of adoption and the various application of BIM for facility management, also the Phi and Cramer’s V are which are both strength of relationship shows that strength of the relationship is very weak. The finding of weighted mean score also revealed that, effective operational cost, better documentation system and improved communication are the major reason for the adoption of BIM ranking 1st, 2nd, and 3rd respectively. Furthermore, finding of factor analysis indicate that user, operational and support challenges are the challenges of adoption of BIM in the study area and this contributed a commutative loading of about 52.56%. Hierarchical clustering indicates that incorporating BIM education in our university, increasing research and development on the use and benefit of BIM for facility management and increased government support for the adoption of BIM are the approaches needed to improve the adoption of BIM for facility management. Factors contributing to the low level adoption of BIM are majorly high cost implication and skill required.