THE INTEGRATION BETWEEN BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM) AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN 2020: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES

The increased awareness and adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the Architectural Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector is reported by many academics’ and practitioners’ studies. Despite its huge impacts in terms of both benefits and barriers to construction projects, the investigations on this phenomenon from a managerial perspective is still poor. BIM adoption implies several changes in the way project management processes and competences are structured and developed. In order to understand where practitioners and academics should invest more to exploit at the best the potentialities of the BIM system, this paper provides two methodological approaches in this direction. Moreover, preliminary results of their application in a European context are provided. In order to strengthen both the methodological approaches and the guidelines provided, further worldwide investigations are necessary. Monitoring the evolution of the relationship between BIM and project management in the upcoming years is key to the successful BIM adoption in the sector.