Building Information Modeling for Risk Management: A Literature Review

AbstractBuilding Information Modeling (BIM) has become more relevant to the construction industry in recent years due to almost all of the biggest industries use BIM as a tool to improve the integration process and risk management. Although there is significant literature on risk management and BIM, the relationship between both of them has not been covered in previous research. This study provides a thorough explanation of the relationship between the interaction with risk management and BIM, as well as how it has evolved. Following a screening procedure, 190 peer-reviewed papers were pulled from the Scopus database. Findings showed that the introduction of risk management into BIM is still in an incipient phase within the construction project management body of knowledge. Overall, three developed nations—the USA (with 30 documents), Australia (21) and China (21)—have steered this research agenda, while a developing country—Malaysia (17)—is an outsider gaining relevance as the fourth contributor to this topic. Five clusters were identified by the network representation, these clusters include risk and project management areas that constitute the research paths to be advanced in the next few years.KeywordsBIMRiskBuilding information modeling