TY - JOUR
T1 - The application of BIM in the AECO industry
AU - Li, Clyde Zhengdao
AU - Zhen, Yu
AU - Wu, Hengqin
AU - Chen, Zhe
AU - Xiao, Bing
AU - Tam, Vivian W. Y.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Building information Modeling (BIM) has been applied to the whole life cycle planning of construction projects, becoming the latest “engineering brain”. Currently, researches on BIM involve various stages, but most of the review fields are relatively single and lack of systematic review and analysis. In order to comprehensively analyze the research trend of BIM in the field of engineering management, this paper takes the holistic analysis method as the framework. In the first stage, 2066 research projects were quantitatively analyzed by bibliometrics to clarify their research environment. In the second stage, scientometric analysis method is adopted to identify scholars, countries, key words and journal sources that have achieved fruitful results and influence in BIM research, and to clarify the research environment. In the last stage, in-depth qualitative discussion is carried out to achieve three objectives: (1) to divide the whole life cycle of the article and summarize the research hotspots in each stage; (2) identify BIM application problems; (3) determine the future research direction. This work is helpful for researchers and practitioners in this field to quickly find influential and fruitful research or journals, and to understand the current research hot spots and trends for the next research planning.
AB - Building information Modeling (BIM) has been applied to the whole life cycle planning of construction projects, becoming the latest “engineering brain”. Currently, researches on BIM involve various stages, but most of the review fields are relatively single and lack of systematic review and analysis. In order to comprehensively analyze the research trend of BIM in the field of engineering management, this paper takes the holistic analysis method as the framework. In the first stage, 2066 research projects were quantitatively analyzed by bibliometrics to clarify their research environment. In the second stage, scientometric analysis method is adopted to identify scholars, countries, key words and journal sources that have achieved fruitful results and influence in BIM research, and to clarify the research environment. In the last stage, in-depth qualitative discussion is carried out to achieve three objectives: (1) to divide the whole life cycle of the article and summarize the research hotspots in each stage; (2) identify BIM application problems; (3) determine the future research direction. This work is helpful for researchers and practitioners in this field to quickly find influential and fruitful research or journals, and to understand the current research hot spots and trends for the next research planning.
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:72571
U2 - 10.3846/jcem.2023.18076
DO - 10.3846/jcem.2023.18076
M3 - Article
SN - 1822-3605
SN - 1392-1525
VL - 29
SP - 202
EP - 222
JO - Journal of Civil Engineering and Management
JF - Journal of Civil Engineering and Management
IS - 3
ER -