Dynamics of the level of BIM application in Russia in 2017-2019

Management and Innovations, Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, Moscow, Russia

^* Corresponding author: SilantievaTN@mgsu.ru

Abstract

Nowadays digitalization became one of the most significant trends of the economy and society development. Digitalization of the production and non-productive processes in various sectors of the economy allows to increase the labour productivity considerably, to provide new product quality as well as to achieve high rates of cost efficiency. Digitalization in construction is provided due to the transition to building information modeling (BIM). Implementation of BIM goes unevenly in the different countries. This paper represents the results of the research of dynamics of the level of BIM implementation in Russia during 2017-2019. The research, carried out in 2017 and 2019 included 2 blocks. The first of them is the telephone poll, which acted as the quantitative research. It allowed to extend the result for all the population owing to the volume and quality of the selection. The second block is the online questioning. Despite of rather huge number of the received questionnaires, this research is actually qualitative and it allows to establish the reasons of introduction or refusal of BIM, its main benefits, etc. The results of the research proved that the quantity of the organizations using BIM did not changed during d 2017-2019 and remained at the level of 22%. This result is interesting as the transfer from the accomplishment of the state order to accomplishment with obligatory application of building information modeling is indented in Russia. the explanation of the lack of the increase in the quantity of organizations using BIM. BIM introduction demands the considerable costs connected with the acquisition of equipment and software, retraining of personnel and often the organization restructuring. There results of the online questioning confirm that. During 201702019 the financial resources availability increased its influence considerably as the condition of BIM technologies implementation (among the organizations which are not using BIM). The improvement of works quality, the increase in the production efficiency (including reduction in cost and terms of works, the increase in economic return and profitability), search of ways of improving competitiveness, the requirement of the customer are the main reasons of BIM introduction (in decreasing order of the importance). The improved understanding of the project by all the participants, high quality of the project; availability of information, fast data transmission and exchange of information are noted as benefits of BIM application. It is noted, that most of respondents received the result, which exceeded their expectations thanks to BIM introduction: the excess of the result over expectations was observed by 77% of respondents in 2017 and by 80% of respondents in 2019.