Incentivizing Collaborative BIM-Enabled Projects: A Synthesis of Agency and Behavioral Approaches

Empirical Investigation – China (2)

Introduction

In recent years, Building Information Modeling (BIM) has risen sharply worldwide as a promising technology for improving efficiency in the AEC industry. Similar to other technologies portrayed by the theory of innovations, the proliferation of BIM could follow an S-curve trajectory with a slow start, an accelerating middle, and a slowdown in the end. Although the notion of BIM has existed for over two decades, the large-scale rollout through BIM mandates has happened only recently. In the initial stage, the attention of governments and academia was mainly placed on resolving technical barriers ...