A Review on BIM and Information Technologies Research in the Construction Industry

A Review on BIM and Information Technologies Research in the Construction Industry

Omur Tezcan, Cemil Akcay, Begum Gazioglu
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/IJDIBE.2019070101
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Abstract

The construction sector is in a development due to technological innovations in recent years. The innovations in information technologies change sectors very fast like telecommunication, health, and automotive, but this process is slower in the construction industry. In this study, the development of the researches in the construction sector has been examined within the framework of technological innovations. Some of the most important publications in construction information technologies, Automation in Construction and Advanced Engineering Informatics journals, have been analyzed. Publications covering the years between 2012 and 2018 related to building information modeling (BIM) and other developing areas were reviewed. The interaction between BIM and the other technological trends such as AI, machine learning, internet of things, deep learning, and 3D printing has been explored.
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2. Review On Information Technologies Research In Construction Industry

Within the scope of this study, the authors reviewed 1874 articles in “Automation in Construction” and “Advanced Engineering Informatics” journals for a 7-year period between 2012-2018. The reason for choosing “Automation in Construction” and “Advanced Engineering Informatics” journals was that they were among the most widely published journals in the field of information and communication technologies in the construction sector.

First of all, the authors have separated the keywords of each article. As a result of this separation process, the researchers have reached a total of 5942 pieces of different keywords. Figure 1 shows a word cloud created before preprocessing of keyword data.

Figure 1.

The word cloud created before preprocessing of keyword data

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As expected, “Building, Construction, BIM, Analysis, Data, Management and Detection” are most repetitive words in the word cloud.

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