Time and Cost Planning of a Housing Construction Project Using Building Information Modelling

Article history Received: 21 August 2019 Accepted: 28 October 2020 Published Online: 30 November 2020 Conventional ways of building construction process lack proper task scheduling and planning of the project work at the site resulting in poor monitoring of the whole process. Building information modelling (BIM) creates a platform where all the information of every single element of the construction process can be virtually integrated. The integration of 3D elements of a building model with its scheduled time and cost parameters results in 5D BIM. This feature enables the visualization, scheduling, planning, and monitoring and clash detection of all preconstruction, construction and post-construction processes of a building. The present study used the information of a live project of a traditionally built residential building which was remodeled using 5D BIM technique. The purpose of this study was to compare and analyses the impact of 5D BIM on time and cost parameters of the live project.