VICO Corporation in the United States has identified the top ten reasons why BIM implementations often fail. These insights are particularly relevant and typical within the BIM application environment in China:
1. Believing that mastering BIM collision detection and coordination alone makes you a BIM expert, without realizing that other companies utilize BIM for far more comprehensive purposes.
2. Lacking a written BIM plan that spans at least 12 months.
3. Forcing all BIM processes to strictly follow existing workflows, showing resistance to adapting workflows for greater efficiency.
4. Assuming the company already has a comprehensive cost database that cost engineers can rely on to produce precise project estimates and detailed cost breakdowns.
5. Failing to spend time communicating with company executives to explain how BIM works and how it integrates with current business processes.
6. Not recognizing BIM as a strategic opportunity to differentiate your company from competitors.
7. Shifting BIM requirements primarily onto subcontractors through contracts, thereby relinquishing control over the quality of BIM work.
8. Assuming project teams can adopt new technologies effectively without proper company-wide planning and support.
9. Hiring individuals with strong modeling skills but lacking experience in three critical construction areas:
1. Constructability and coordination
2. Project quantity takeoff and budgeting
3. Construction scheduling and production management
10. Believing that BIM is simply a matter of purchasing several different software packages and assigning a young, computer-savvy project engineer to experiment with them.
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