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Economic comparison of industrialized building system and conventional construction system using building information modeling
Amir Faghirinejadfard1, Amir Mahdiyar2, Abdul Kadir Marsono3, Saeed Reza Mohandes4, Hossein Omrany5, Sanaz Tabatabaee6, Masine Md Tap7.
The new construction method known as Industrialized Building System (IBS) offers several
benefits compared to the Conventional Building System (CBS); however, IBS is perceived by
most of the practitioners to be an expensive method for being utilized in construction
industry. Whilst relatively numerous studies have been carried out on the subject of IBS and
CBS methods, there has not been any exploiting building information modeling (BIM) as a
useful tool to calculate quantities, time, and cost needed to construct building with each of
the two aforementioned methods. The aim of this paper is to calculate cost of two similar
buildings (one is constructed with IBS method and other one with CBS method) and
compare them in terms of economy based on a chosen case study and same initial
investment. To this end, the construction cost of buildings is calculated using BIM software,
namely Revit Architecture and Navisworks Manage for modeling the chosen case study
and estimating construction cost, respectively. The findings indicated that IBS was not
economic in low investment of company; however, with investment on more than 100 units
of IBS, this method was shown more economical compared to CBS method. In addition, the
initial investment on IBS method could be returned when more than 200 units of IBS were
implemented in the projects.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
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