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An investigation into whether building information modelling (BIM) can assist with construction delay claims

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posted on 2013-01-10, 09:30 authored by David-John Gibbs, Stephen Emmitt, Kirti RuikarKirti Ruikar, Wayne Lord
It is probable that a construction project anywhere in the world will encounter some form of delay as a consequence of change. The impact of the delay on a project will vary, but it is likely to have a negative financial outcome. Compensation can be requested by an affected party in the form of a claim; however, issues of liability and quantum can be difficult given the ever increasing complexity of construction work involving numerous differing successive parallel tasks with varying levels of interrelated resources. Experts are often employed to analyse delays based on project records and report their findings to a tribunal. This paper identifies the difficulties associated with the retrieval and representation of information for delay claims and recognises technological opportunities to deal with these challenges. The potential to exploit aspects of BIM to support these possibilities are discussed, concluding that it can assist through the ease of access to coordinated contemporaneous project information and the use of visualisation through multiple dimensions. In order to support this initiative a detailed review of the literature is undertaken which forms part of an Engineering Doctorate.

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

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GIBBS, D. ... et al., 2012. An investigation into whether building information modelling (BIM) can assist with construction delay claims. IN: Proceedings of the First UK Academic Conference on BIM, Newcastle Business School & School of Law Building, Northumbria University, 5-7 September 2012, pp. 36 - 44.

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BIM Academy

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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2012

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This is a conference paper. It was presented at the 1st UK Academic Conference on Building Information Modelling (BIM). The BIM website is at: http://collab.northumbria.ac.uk/bim2/

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