Applicability of Building Information Modeling In Project Cost Estimation in Sudan

Abstract

So far, the construction industry in Sudan lacks and need to what can made it become the most important sector that help in the recovery of the economy of Sudan. In the last years the construction industry witnessed the appearance of new techniques to help in that. The most of these techniques are Building Information Modeling (BIM) which is considered universally as the best commander of the construction industry. This research is based on introducing Building Information Modeling to the construction industry in the Sudan in an attempt to improve profits from it in all its aspects, spread awareness of the Building Information Modeling (BIM) among Architects, Engineers, and Contractors (AEC), industry stockholders, and to examine some of the barriers, as well as to access the benefits of BIM when applied to the cost estimation which is the most important elements of the project management. In this study bibliography on Building Information Modeling taken from studies and research (literary magazines, articles or wrote for the paper, conferences and theses) is presented focusing on assessing the construction costs and benefits of the application of the BIM. This is extrapolated by a questionnaire as a tool for the data collection, where the distribution covered 92 audients. The questionnaire was distributed electronically through a site offering such services and has ousted 8 Questionnaires because of incomplete and the existence of some of the respondents who do not belong to the population. The study focuses on the construction cost estimation and benefits of the implementing BIM. The benefit of Building Information Modeling that has been tested appeared that applicability of Building Information Modeling in Sudan is possible which that would be the lead to reform the problems that facing the construction industry in Sudan. At last, the outcome of this research encourages all parties concerned in the construction industry to pay more interest in training, studies and research on buildings information Modeling . Finally, it is concluded that governments have a very important role in promoting the process of the application.