Abstract
In parallel with China's growing construction market, there has been an influx of foreign architectural and engineering design firms into the Chinese construction market. Those firms generally form partnerships with local Chinese firms or institutions to overcome various complications in the country. Adding to the complexity, relatively recent technologies such as Building Information Modelling BIM also started to play a role in those collaborative project design management efforts in China. This paper presents an in-depth case study of a complex building design project collaboratively executed using BIM by a foreign design firm from the USA and local Chinese firm in China. The project was analysed from different design management and stakeholder perspectives. Some of the findings confirm the pervious accounts from the literature. New insights and the key lessons learned for BIM based design management in this context are also presented.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 16-38 |
Number of pages | 23 |
Journal | International Journal of 3-D Information Modeling |
Volume | 5 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 2016 |
Externally published | Yes |