Barriers for practicing BIM in facilities management in Indonesia

Abstract

Facilities management is now widely practiced in Asia. It has been practiced in Europe, America and other continents many years earlier. It has helped many organizations in their business. It deals with vast amount of data which changes over time. The data was always used to adopt to changing business environment. Therefore the need for the medium to capture, manage and use the various data regarding building and facilities. There are many softwares which are very useful for professions and for facilities management. Building Information Modelling is one of the most suitable. BIM has been practiced in FM. However, it is not widely used in FM industry including Indonesia. Therefore this study was conducted to identify the barriers of BIM is active and wide use in Indonesia. Perceptions of the facilities managers were seek, through survey questionnaire, to identify the barriers. The survey showed the respondents agreed that there are barriers due to insufficient knowledge and lack of training institutes that have hindered the wider and active use of BIM in FM industry in Indonesia.