BIM Sociotechnology: Situational Awareness as a Strategy for Enhancing Collaboration in BIM-Enabled Education within the GCC Context
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Abstract
The education and industry of architecture and engineering disciplines are being transformed by Building Information Modelling (BIM) through digitization. Recent literature shows that BIM is in reality 90% sociology and 10% technology, despite the perception that it is 90% technology and 10% sociology. Without social interventions within technological models, barriers and limitations that are evident in the social culture of an institution could result in being reflected in dead-ended technical and technological structures and solutions. For this, concepts of social sustainability and cultural resilience are promoted by proposing socio-technical solutions relying on the theoretical model of Situational Awareness (SA) as a cornerstone in this research. The investigation method on the link between BIM-enabled Education and SA is done through multiple interviews within the academic sector of multiple educational institutions within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The results of this study could design a preliminary framework for approaching technical solutions to social dilemmas and thus help in enhanced implementation and collaboration in BIM-enabled education in the GCC.
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Building Information Modelling (BIM)SociotechnologyHigher EducationCollaborationGCC region
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How to Cite
Atour , Raya Mahmoud, and Ahmad Mohammad Ahmad. 2023. “BIM Sociotechnology: Situational Awareness As a Strategy for Enhancing Collaboration in BIM-Enabled Education Within the GCC Context”. Tajseer Journal 5 (2):215-32. https://doi.org/10.29117/tis.2023.0143.
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