Factors Influencing Adoption of Building Information Modeling in Government Sector : A Case Study of Construction Department, Ministry of Defense

Abstract

In the construction industry, building information modeling or BIM has been implement to facilitate works. However, there are still no case studies in BIM implement for the government sector. The objectives of this research were to study factors influencing adoption of building information modeling and to study problems, obstacles and directions for accepting towards BIM of construction department, ministry of defense by using the data from the questionnaire for statistical analysis. The study found that performance expectancy and perceived ease of use affected the acceptance and use of BIM. Self-efficacy and anxiety of BIM’s user affected to perceived ease of use and general factors which were gender and the characteristic of responsible work had the relationship with self-efficacy and anxiety of BIM’s user. Therefore, the researcher conducted the direction to lead by providing knowledge and understanding to related people in the organization, preparing plans, and conducting various experiments before applying to the whole system as well as implementing properly.