Building Information Modelling (BIM) for construction project management: A literature bibliometric analysis approach

Being a multidisciplinary sector by nature, construction projects have historically been managed in a complex, dangerous, resource-wasting, imprecise manner that has been found to increase carbon emissions. Building information modelling (BIM) facilitates simulation, collaboration among project stakeholders, and the progression of BIM from 3D spatial representation to 10D industrialized production, all of which enhance the construction project management process throughout the lifecycle of a building. Based on such precedent and benefits, one could want to do bibliometric analysis to find out how many documents have been published on BIM for construction project management. In this study, a bibliometric analysis was employed to further explore the research subject. The Scopus database (www.scopus.com) and widely available tools were used to generate and analyse 246 published documents. Data obtained from the Scopus database was uploaded into the VOSviewer software to conduct further subject-matter analysis to delve deeper into particular documents received from Scopus. Utilizing data retrieved from Scopus, clusters networks analyses of ranking, co-authorship, co-occurrence, co-citation, citation, and bibliography are created and uploaded to the VOSviewer (www.vosviewer.com) tool. Findings reveal that the top countries for literature research and the cluster network of BIM for construction project management publications are the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, China, Australia, India, Taiwan, Canada, France, Malaysia, and Iran. stating that African scholars need to formalize more of their writings and strengthen collaboration with other industrialized nations on this topic. Keywords: Building Information Model (BIM), Construction Project Management, Bibliometric Analysis, Vosviewer, Visualisation, Network.