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(BIM) Application in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) Industry in Gaza Strip الجامـــــعة اﻹسﻻميـة – غـــــــزة (Islamic University of Gaza (IUG عمـــــــادة الدراســات العليـــــــــا Higher Education Deanship كـلـــــــــية الهنــدســـــــــــــــــــة Faculty of Engineering قســــــــم الهندســة المدنيـــــــــــة Civil Engineering Department إدارة المشروعــات الهندسيــــــــة Construction Project Management An investigation into Building Information Modeling (BIM) application in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry in Gaza strip البحث في تطبيق تكنولوجيا نمذجت معلوماث البناء )BIM( في صناعت التصميم وتشييد البناء في قطاع غزة Submitted by: Lina Ahmed Ata AbuHamra Supervised by: Prof. Dr. Adnan Ali Enshassi Distinguished Prof. of Construction Engineering and Management, IUG A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of Requirements for Master's Degree in Construction Project Management, Civil Engineering September 2015 AD - 1436 HJ إقـــــــزار أنا الموقع أدناه مقدم الرسالة التي تحمل العنوان: An investigation into Building Information Modeling (BIM) application in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry in Gaza strip البحث في تطبيق تكنولوجيا نمذجت معلوماث البناء )BIM( في صناعت التصميم وتشييد البناء في قطاع غزة أقر بأن ما اشتممت عميو ىذه الرسالة إنما ىي نتاج جيدي الخاص، باستثناء ما تمت اﻹشارة إليو حيثما ورد، وان ىذه الرسالة ككل، أو أي جزء منيا لم يقدم من قبل لنيل درجة أو لقب عممي أو بحثي لدى أية مؤسسة تعميمية أو بحثية أخرى. DECLARATION The work provided in this thesis, unless otherwise referenced, is the researcher's own work, and has not been submitted elsewhere for any other degree or qualification. اسم الباحثة: Researcher's name لينـا أحمــد عطــا أبـو حمـرة Lina Ahmed Ata AbuHamra E-mail: [email protected] التوقيع: :Signature التاريخ: Date: 2/9/2015 2/9/2015 Citing the thesis To cite this thesis: AbuHamra, Lina Ahmed (2015). An investigation into Building Information Modeling (BIM) application in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry in Gaza strip. MSc Thesis, Construction Project Management, Civil Engineering, The Islamic University of Gaza (IUG), Gaza, Gaza strip, Palestine. Or: AbuHamra, L. A. (2015). An investigation into Building Information Modeling (BIM) application in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry in Gaza strip. MSc Thesis, Construction Project Management, Civil Engineering, The Islamic University of Gaza (IUG), Gaza, Gaza strip, Palestine. To link to this thesis: http://library.iugaza.edu.ps/thesis/116796.pdf قال تعاىل: } يَْرفَع ا ّ هَلل ا ّ َّلي َن آ َمنهوا منْ ه ُْك َو ا ّ َّلي َن ُآوتهوا الْ ع ْ َْل َد َر َجات{ سورة اجملادةل : 11 صدق هللا العظمي “All things are difficult before they are easy” Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661) Dedication Firstly, this research is lovingly dedicated to my beloved Father Engineer/ Ahmed Ata AbuHamra and my beloved Mother Mrs. Rasmia Ali Qatrawi, who have been my constant source of inspiration. They have given me the guidance and discipline to tackle any difficulty in this life with enthusiasm and determination. Without their prayers, love, encouragement and support, this work would not have been made possible. Their constant love has sustained me throughout my life. And without a doubt, I dedicate this thesis to my beloved sisters, brothers, best real friends in Gaza strip in Palestine and other places in the world, as well the entire special people who have supported me throughout the process of carrying out this work. Their love and encouragement have had a significant impact on giving me the power to complete this work. I also dedicate my work to myself because I have kept trying to learn new things as well as I have been keen on fidelity and accuracy in achieving my thesis. Lina Ahmed Ata AbuHamra i Acknowledgements First of all, I am grateful to ALLAH the Almighty for all blessings in this life and for giving me power and ability that were necessary to achieve this goal. All thanks and praise are due to ALLAH ―Alhamdulillah.‖ I would like to express my great appreciation to Prof. Dr. Adnan Ali Enshassi, Distinguished Professor of Construction Engineering and Management and my research supervisor, for his patient guidance, enthusiastic encouragement and useful critiques of this research work. I am proud to be one of his students and to have the opportunity to be under his supervision. I would also like to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Husameddin Mohammed Dawoud, Assistant Professor at the College of Applied Engineering and Urban Planning of The University of Palestine, Gaza. His valuable and constructive advice and assistance during the planning and development of the methodology of this research work, as well as his continuous encouragement to me, are priceless. I thank him for his willingness to dedicate to me much of his time so generously. The advice was given to me by Dr. Khalid AbdelRaouf Al-Hallaq, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering/ Construction Management at The Islamic University of Gaza, have been of great help in the elimination of confusion at the beginning of the research in some fundamental things that identified the orientation of the study. His willingness to support and to facilitate many issues to me is appreciated. I take this opportunity to express the most sincere gratitude to Dr. Javed Intekhab, PhD in Phytochemistry, lecturer in the Department of Chemistry, Swami Vivekananda P.G College, India, for providing me with all the necessary references which needed access to the present research. I place on record, my sincere thanks to him for having encouraged me and for his honest and valuable advice according to his extensive experience. I wish to send my great thanks to Dr. Davide Polimeno, MPhil in Classical Archaeology, External Assistant of the Apulian Direction of Antiquities (Italy) and EXARC member (EU-Netherlands). I am extremely thankful and indebted to him for sharing expertise, and valuable guidance as well as for encouraging me. I would also like to express my particular thanks to both of Syed Muzammil Ali, MS in Electrical Engineering, and Tayyab Zafar, MS in Mechatronics Engineering, from Pakistan, for providing me with many of the necessary references useful to this research. Special thanks should be given to the Department of Architectural Engineering at The Islamic University of Gaza, in particular for each of them: Prof. Nader J. El-Namara, Dr. Suhair M. Ammar, Dr. Omar S. Asfour, and Dr. Sanaa Y. Saleh, for their welcoming and help in the arbitration of the questionnaire. In the same context, special thanks to Haroun Mousa Bhar, MSc in Statistics, for his help in the statistical arbitration of the questionnaire. ii I‘m particularly grateful for the assistance was given by Malek M. Abuwarda, MSc in Structural Engineering, Technical Instructor in GTC-UNRWA in Gaza, by sharing his valuable knowledge about Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Revit. I am also grateful to all those who participated in response to the questionnaire and all organizations that cooperated with me. I want to thank Abdul-Rahman Ayyash, MSc in Civil Engineering, for his help in understanding factor analysis test. My sincere thanks also extended to all my friends and colleagues for their support and encouragement to me. Last but not the least; there are no words to describe how I‘m so grateful to my beloved Father Engineer/ Ahmed Ata AbuHamra and my beloved Mother Mrs. Rasmia Ali Qatrawi for the endless encouragement, support and attention throughout all my studies at university, and especially while writing this research. As well, my profound thanks must be expressed to my beloved sisters and brothers for everything. Thank you, Lina Ahmed Ata AbuHamra iii Abstract Purpose: Building Information Modeling (BIM) has recently attained widespread attention in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. BIM has been suggested by several professionals and researchers as the universal remedy to addressing the inefficiencies in the AEC industry. In numerous cases of different countries, potential benefits and competitive advantages have been reported. However, in spite of the benefits and potentials of BIM technologies, it is not applied in the AEC industry in Gaza strip in Palestine just like many other regions of the world. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to develop a clear understanding about BIM for identifying the different factors that provide useful information to consider adopting BIM technology by the practitioners in the AEC industry in Gaza strip. This purpose has been done by achieving five primary objectives by assessing the awareness level of BIM by the professionals in the AEC industry in Gaza strip, identifying BIM functions and BIM benefits that would convince the professionals for adopting BIM in the AEC industry in Gaza strip, determining barriers to BIM adoption, and by studying some hypotheses to help to reach to successful BIM-based workflow implementation. Design/methodology/approach: A quantitative survey was used in the research. Three main steps were used to reach to the final amendment of the questionnaire: (1) Face validity by presenting the questionnaire to 12 experts in the fields of the AEC industry and Statistics (from Gaza city as well as outside Palestine), (2) pre-testing the questionnaire in two phases with 12 people who represented the target group, which involved the professionals (Architects, Civil Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers, and any other professional with related specialization) in the AEC industry in Gaza strip in Palestine, and (3) a Pilot study
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