Building Information Modelling in Healthcare Design and Construction

A Bibliometric Review and Systematic Review

Conference paper (2024)

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Tan Tan University College London

Grant Mills University College London

E. Papadonikolaki University College London

Yue Xu University College London

Ke Chen Huazhong University of Science and Technology

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BIM Healthcare architecture Digital technology Literature review Healthcare design and construction

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2024

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English

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Abstract

Healthcare facilities play a key role in responding United Nations goals, such as sustainability, health and welling. The outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic has driven much attention to expanding healthcare capacity through advanced digital technologies, such as Building Information Modelling (BIM). Nevertheless, a systematic review of research achievements is lacking. This research uses bibliometric and systemic literature review methods to investigate BIM applications in Healthcare Design and Construction (HDC). The bibliometric investigation focuses on country, journal co-citation, and keyword clustering analyses. The systematic review classifies application domains, BIM actions, and other digital technologies accompanying BIM. Finally, 17 major BIM actions are summarized for six major domains, including operability, resilience, collaboration, sustainability and constructability. This study reveals that the outbreak of COVID-19 has greatly stimulated the academic interest in digital technologies for HDC, and there is geographical uniqueness highly relevant to local government policies and national healthcare services. However, related research is still in a relatively preliminary stage.