BIM Teaching and Learning Handbook Implementation for Students and Educators

Section 1-1: Foundations and threshold concepts

1. Foundational concepts for BIM 

Rafael Sacks and Ergo Pikas 

2. BIM technologies, tools, and skills 

Hamid Abdirad and Carrie Sturts Dossick 

3. Understanding BIM to translate it into action 

Cenk Budayan and Yusuf Arayici 

4. Collaboration in BIM-based construction networks 

Bimal Kumar and Benny Raphael 

Section 1-2: BIM applications 

5. Towards adopting 4D BIM in construction management curriculums: A teaching map 

Faris Elghaish, Sepehr Abrishami, Salam Al-Bizri, Saeed Talebi, Sandra Matarneh, and Song Wu

6. Cost management-based BIM: Skills, implementation, and teaching map 

Faris Elghaish, Saeed Talebi, and Song Wu 

7. Building information modelling for facilities management: Skills, implementation, and teaching map 

Sandra Matarneh and Faris Elghaish 

8. BIM, sustainability and energy optimization 

Zeynep Işık, Yusuf Arayici, Hande Aladağ, Gökhan Demirdöğen, and Farzad Khosrowshahi

9. BIM for safety planning and management 

Sambo Zulu, Allen Wan, Farzad Khosrowshahi, and Mark Swallow 

Section 1-3: Advanced discussions 

10. Understanding BIM information management processes through international BIM standards 

Mohammad Alhusban 

11. Scholarship of BIM and construction law: Myths, realities, and future directions 

Oluwole Alfred Olatunji and Abiola Akanmu 

12. Interoperability and emerging smart technologies 

Gökhan Demirdöğen, Zeynep Işık, Yusuf Arayici, and Hande Aladağ

13. BIM and ethics 

Nicholas Nisbet 

SECTION 2: FOR EDUCATORS AND TRAINERS 

14. BIM teaching and learning frameworks in construction-related domains: What the literature says 

Reza Taban, Mohsen Kalantari, and Elisa Lumantarna 

15. Educating the "T-shaped" BIM professional: Lessons from academia 

Igor Martek, Wei Wu, Mehran Oraee, and M. Reza Hosseini 

16. Developing digerati leaders: Education beyond the building information modelling (BIM) ecosystem 

Eleni Papadonikolaki 

17. Incorporating collaborative problem solving (CPS) principles in BIM education 

Abbas Mehrabi Boshrabadi, Mehran Oraee, Igor Martek, and M. Reza Hosseini 

18. BIM education assessment: Guidelines for making it authentic 

Abbas Mehrabi Boshrabadi, Mehran Oraee, Igor Martek, and M. Reza Hosseini 

19. Using gamification and competitions to enhance BIM learning experience 

Ajibade A. Aibinu, Teo Ai Lin Evelyn, Juan S. Rojas-Quintero, M. Reza Hosseini, Chiranjib Dey, Reza Taban, and Tayyab Ahmad  

20. An Australian consolidated framework for BIM teaching and learning 

Sas Mihindu and Professor Farzad Khosrowshahi 

Biography

M. Reza Hosseini is currently the associate head of school (research) at the School of Architecture and Built Environment, Deakin University; a research fellow of the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE); and the founder and leader of the Australian BIM Academic Forum (ABAF). He had 12 years of experience working in various areas of the construction industry prior to joining the academic world. His main research and teaching areas are building information modelling (BIM) and digital engineering, and he has written around 190 published papers and book chapters.

Farzad Khosrowshahi is dean of the College of Engineering and Science at Victoria University, Melbourne, and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building. He is the founder of the BIM Academic Forum, Information Visualisation Society, and Uniting Construction Information. Farzad has previously served as the director of Construct IT, chair of ARCOM (Association of Researchers in Construction Management), and chair of IV Society. He has served on a number of committees including The European Council for Construction Research, Development and Innovation, buildingSMART UK, and the Construction Industry Council Research & Innovation. 　

Ajibade A. Aibinu is an associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Australia, where he was the Assistant Dean, Research Training. His research interests cut across the built environment project and asset management, from design and construction to operations, particularly data-driven processes to ensure value for money. He is the founder of Intelligent Cost Manager, a cloud-based cost-management solution that leverages deep learning and predictive modelling to generate cost estimates with greater accuracy using historical data. Ajibade is a member of the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors and was previously an associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2008–2013).

Sepehr Abrishami is a BIM programme leader and senior lecturer in the School of Civil Engineering and Surveying at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He has carried out extensive research in the field of BIM, automation in design and construction, and environmental design. His areas of expertise include building information modelling (BIM), generative and parametric evolutionary design, artificial intelligence (AI), digital design and construction, integrated design, design for manufacturing and assembly (DfMA), offsite manufacturing, Big Data, blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), and IT integrated architectural design.