A study of BIM collaboration requirements and available features in existing model collaboration system

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By Muhammad Tariq Shafiq, Jane Matthews, Prof. Steve Lockley (2013)
The construction industry is responding to this situation by adopting emerging model collaboration systems (MCS), such as model servers, with the ability to exploit and reuse information directly from the models to extend the current intra-disciplinary collaboration towards integrated multi-disciplinary collaboration on models. The functions of existing MCSs have evolved from the manufacturing industry and there is no concrete study on how these functions correspond to the requirements of the construction industry, especially with BIM requirements. This paper concludes that model collaborative solutions for construction industry users are available in different capacities; however a comprehensive custom built solution is yet to be realized. The research results are useful for construction industry professionals, software developers and researchers involved in exploring collaborative solutions for the construction industry Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITcon), 18. pp. 148-161. ISSN 1874-4753.