Streamlining Digital Modeling and Building Informa

Authors: CenYing Lee HeapYih Chong Xiangyu Wang

Publish Date: 2016/11/23

Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 349-396

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Abstract

The oil and gas industry is a technologydriven industry Over the last two decades it has heavily made use of digital modeling and associated technologies DMAT to enhance its commercial capability Meanwhile the Building Information Modelling BIM has grown at an exponential rate in the built environment sector It is not only a digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility but it has also made an impact on the management processes of building project lifecycle It is apparent that there are many similarities between BIM and DMAT usability in the aspect of physical modeling and functionality The aim of this study is to streamline the usage of both DMAT and BIM whilst discovering valuable practices for performance improvement in the oil and gas projects To achieve this 28 BIM guidelines 83 DMAT academic publications and 101 DMAT vendor case studies were selected for review The findings uncover a 38 BIM uses b 32 DMAT uses and c 36 both DMAT and BIM uses The synergy between DMAT and BIM uses would render insightful references into managing efficient oil and gas’s projects It also helps project stakeholders to recognise future investment or potential development areas of BIM and DMAT uses in their projectsWe are grateful to Gary Tan an IT specialist of oil and gas projects for his time and suggestions of improvement of our paper This paper was inspired by the preparatory research for the author’s PhD project which is cofunded by Curtin University and Australian Research Council ARC linkage scholarship 53187

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