| dc.description.abstract | Building Information Modelling (BIM), in the global construction context of the new
millennium, has grown into a new advanced paradigm where it is increasingly, universally recognized as a new buzzword. BIM has a great potential to incorporate with
the construction project’s life cycle. Thereby, it is more probable to be a standard
practice. Incorporating of BIM applications, the practice of quantity surveying in the
new millennium is undergoing a paradigm change from traditional manual techniques
to completely automated digitalization in the purpose of providing the service in an
efficient and effective manner. However, in Sri Lanka, traditional manual processes are
still used in Quantity Surveying (QS) practice, which is problematic. The execution of
BIM applications for the QS practice is a fear among Quantity Surveyors because the
professionals’ existence is creating a threatened and challenging nature when employing
BIM in the QS practice. Lack of government influence, unavailability of computer facilities
with higher capacities and cost of software and hardware are distinguished as the main
obstructions and are discussed here. The present knowledge about BIM applications
relevant to the QS practice of Sri Lanka is explicitly explaining, BIM applications adoption
that can have an influence on the QS’s functions. Thereby, to overcome the deficiencies
faced by QSs due to the usage of traditional manual methods, this study focuses on the
strategies to integrate BIM by discovering the present status of using BIM within the QS
operation. | en_US |
