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Implementation of Building Information Modelling by Project Managers on Construction Projects in Ghana - Level 2 Implementation
School research theme: Sustainability in the built environment
Research supervisors: Dr Eleni Papadonikolaki and Dr Natalya Sergeeva
Start date: 1 November 2022
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is redefining infrastructure mostly aimed at maximizing schedules and reduced costs as well as to achieve proper asset performance throughout the product life cycle. The construction industry has faced many obstacles and barriers, such as cost overruns, time delays, long-term contractual case, leading to poor performance and low efficiency. With a construction project of any size, there is a need to manage it. Project managers are important to the success of construction projects because they handle project planning, cost control, time, quality, safety, and risk management. Project managers are also responsible for engaging with all project stakeholders on the project including owners, engineers, contractors, and regulatory bodies. BIM's role as project system coordinator is quite similar to a project manager's duties. BIM integrates various disciplines through effective communication, analyzes project systems for construction, estimates the cost and time of projects, draws an overall picture of projects using visualization and creates collaborative teams. All the above is what every project manager does over a project life cycle on a different scale.
Working as a project manager in Ghana has helped me understand the problems we face in a traditional construction setting and how Building Information Modelling can totally eradicate these issues to boost the economic growth of the Ghanaian Construction Industry. The main objective of this research is to propose guidelines for the implementation of level 2 maturity level of Building Information Modelling by Project managers in the Ghanaian Construction Sector to improve upon project delivery and sustainability in Ghana.
