Supply Chain Management with BIM: Towards better control of construction logistics

Currently the on-site logistics of construction projects are very inefficient. The construction industry is very fragmented and there are a lot of different information and material processes, therefore it is difficult for a main contractor to get control of these all. It is assumed that if the main contractor gets control of the logistics, the...

Alignment of Partnering with Construction IT: Exploration and Synthesis of network strategies to integrate BIM-enabled Supply Chains

Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Building Information Modelling (BIM) are seen as innovations that can manage complexities in construction by focusing on integrating processes and products respectively. Whereas these two innovations have been considered compatible, their practical combination has been mainly anecdotal. The Netherlands was the...

Bigger BIM: Meer betekenis voor BIM door ketenintegratie en lean

De implementatie van BIM omvat meer dan alleen het aanschaffen van soft- en hardware. Men zal aandacht moeten geven aan de samenwerking met partners, de verschillende culturen en het afstemmen van verschillende processen. Dit is mogelijk door BIM in samenhang met lean en ketenintegratie te implementeren.