The growth of the construction industry is severely limited by the myriad complex challenges
it faces such as cost and time overruns, health and safety, productivity and labour shortages …

Abstract BIM-based Construction Networks (BbCNs) are teams comprising members from
several specialist organisations to undertake BIM-related tasks on BIM-enabled projects …

Building information modelling (BIM) teams, hereafter referred to as BIM-based construction
networks, are teams whose possibly geographically dispersed members from various …

Existing platforms for collaborative BIM design have a centralized system architecture, which
suffers cybersecurity risks of design data manipulation and denial of access, leading to a …

Security of information in collaborative BIM platforms is crucial particularly for critical projects
such as that of government buildings, prisons, and power plants. Inappropriate distribution …

Abstract In construction projects, Building Information Modeling (BIM) influences on the
common way of collaboration, including the roles of different participants. The goal of this …

While BIM processes are established for new buildings, the majority of existing buildings is
not maintained, refurbished or deconstructed with BIM yet. Promising benefits of efficient …

Purpose Smart cities provide fully integrated and networked connectivity between
virtual/digital assets and physical building/infrastructure assets to form digital economies …

With the recent advances in Information and Communication Technologies in the
construction industry, information is exchanged digitally with little regard to the contracts that …

Abstract Building Information Modeling (BIM) has emerged as one of the key streams in
construction and civil engineering research within the last decade. Given this interest in BIM …