Building information modelling demystified: does it make business sense to adopt BIM?

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 419-434

  Aranda Mena, Guillermo ^a   Crawford, John ^a   Chevez, Agustin ^a   Froese, Thomas ^a,b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Communication technologies; Construction industry; Information modelling; Project management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923205030     PISSN: 17538378     EISSN: 17538386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17538370910971063     Document Type: Article

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