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International Journal of BIM and Engineering Science | 2019

Practical Approach for Paving the Way to Motivate BIM Non-users to Adopt BIM

Typically, the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry is considered one of the most effective contributor to the national developments worldwide. However, the AEC industry is facing myriad challenges due to the pressing calls for creativity and innovative solutions. Several issues are confronted such as failure to meet client satisfaction, delays in delivering projects on time, cost overruns, low quality, conflicts among parties, safety issues, increasing requests for change orders, tremendous increases in materials waste and project complexity. Building Information Modeling (BIM) is rapidly growing worldwide as a viable tool for improving the efficiency of the AEC industry to solve its salient issues. However, BIM is seldom adopted on the government level, especially in the developing countries. This study aims to explore the stakeholders’ perceptions on the benefits of BIM and the barriers that hindered its adoption. Furthermore, practical solutions to motivate BIM non-users to adopt BIM are proposed. A questionnaire was sent to BIM users and non-users in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) as a case study. The key findings that deterred the implementation of BIM were personal correlated issues such as resistance to change and lack of appropriate awareness of BIM. This study convinces the industry players concerning BIM benefits and reveals the barriers and their potential solutions to encourage them to reap the benefits from BIM adoption.

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Ashraf Elhendawi mail -
Hany Omar mail -
Emad Elbeltagi mail -
Andrew Smith mail
link https://doi.org/10.54216/IJBES.020201

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Vol. Volume 2 / Iss. Issue 2

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International Journal of BIM and Engineering Science | 2019

A Comparative Review of Building Information Modeling Frameworks

The building sector influences the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of many countries. There is a vast amount of waste generated in the building process, with many projects suffering from delivery delays, running over budget, and resulting in buildings of minimal quality. Building Information Modeling (BIM) has shown great potential towards solving these problems. BIM sets frameworks for Architects, Engineers, and Contractors (AEC), enhancing management of the building process. This paper analyzes select framework methods, tools, and processes, identifying key guidelines required to create a BIM framework customized to local requirements; this will have a positive effect on the construction industry by lowering the cost of buildings and improving the communication among parties, and leading to the development of frameworks based on local indicators. A comprehensive literature review was conducted to determine components and factors from structure frameworks with the main findings then classified and categorized into the following sectors -- government support, maturity level measurement, standards, protocol, database, and education plan. This permits the development of a comparison highlighting the frameworks’ differences and summing up possible strategies for BIM implementation on several bases, such as region differentiation and the local industries’ Political, Economic, Socio-Cultural, Technological (PEST) aspects, allowing for greater understanding of BIM implementation on various scales. The selection of the BIM frameworks was dependent on specific criteria with a minimum score of 4 out of 5 required to merit inclusion. Three strategies for the creation of a BIM framework were discovered and were seen to vary across regions. The discovery of these strategies lays the groundwork for future research into the development of these frameworks to determine the potential advantages and downsides of each.

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Abdulaziz Banawi mail -
Obaid Aljobaly mail -
Cyril Ahiable mail
link https://doi.org/10.54216/IJBES.020202

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Vol. Volume 2 / Iss. Issue 2

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International Journal of BIM and Engineering Science | 2020

Influence of Partnering Agreements Associated with BIM Adoption on Stakeholder’s Behaviour in Construction Mega-Projects

Construction mega-projects are typically associated with cost overruns and time delays due to conflicts of interest between diverse stakeholders. This research investigates the influence of the partnering approach and the adoption of Design and Build (D-B) contractual agreement on the behaviour of stakeholders on mega-projects. Through a case study, the significant factors that influence stakeholder management are appraised, such as cooperation, developing trust, and a dearth of communication. The research concluded that mutual trust, transparency, leadership, the well-defined scope of work, a clear definition of responsibilities, collaboration, and training are the main success factors of partnering projects. The research also emphasised that Building Information Modelling (BIM) plays a vital role to secure the mentioned key successful factors for partnering. Furthermore, BIM facilitates achieving project objectives with the adoption of D-B contracts. This research contributes to the developing body of knowledge addressing the application of partnering in construction. The outcomes of this research will be beneficial for clients, contractors, project managers, and contract managers when taking into account future execution plans for D-B projects. Forthcoming studies can develop a framework to combine various stakeholders to obtain optimum satisfaction.

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Martin Evans mail -
Peter Farrell mail -
Emad Elbeltagi mail -
Ayman Mashali mail -
Ashraf Elhendawi mail
link https://doi.org/10.54216/IJBES.030101

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Vol. Volume 3 / Iss. issue 1

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International Journal of BIM and Engineering Science | 2020

Analysis of Barriers and Drivers for BIM Adoption

Research on 'digitalization and collaboration' in the construction industry has been gaining momentum in the recent academic engagements. Despite its existence in many industries (i.e. financial services, retailing, publishing and travelling) for over ten years, it is yet to catch up by the construction market; this is due to several challenges whose existence are more dynamic and contextual than generic to various countries. The problems are defined in many studies across borders, but their impacts varied with countries. This case is equally the same to drivers toward the adoption of BIM. This study analyses barriers and drivers to BIM adoption in the Nigerian construction industry from adopters and non-adopters perspectives as to allow an informed decision in developing a strategy for macro BIM adoption. Primary data fetched from professional stakeholders through an online questionnaire survey were analysed using SPSS software and Microsoft Excel. This investigation reveals the most significant barriers against BIM adoption as Lack of expertise, Lack of standardization and protocols to mention but a few. And, most influential drivers from both adopters and non-adopters as Availability of trained professionals to handle the tools, Proof of cost savings by its adoption, BIM Software affordability, and awareness of the technology among the industry stakeholders. The adopters and non-adopters groups have nearly equal Percentage Disagreement (PD) and Percentage Agreement (PA) for both the barriers and drivers to BIM adoption. Thus, this suggests that the adopters are still at the early stage of BIM adoption, so have nearly the same perceptions with the non-adopters. The study recommends proper consideration of the established barriers and drivers while developing any strategy for effective BIM adoption. Further face-to-face (interview) study is necessary to explore more and in-depth challenges to adoption of BIM in the industry; and as the industry is getting more aware of the BIM, periodic evaluation of the critical barriers and drivers is vital.

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Mansur Hamma-adama mail -
Tahar Kouider mail -
Huda Salman mail
link https://doi.org/10.54216/IJBES.030102

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Vol. Volume 3 / Iss. issue 1

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International Journal of BIM and Engineering Science | 2021

The Vulnerability of the Construction Ergonomics to Covid-19 and Its Probability Impact in Combating the Virus

Currently, the world encounters the outbreak of an unprecedented epidemic named novel coronavirus COVID -19. World Health Organization (WHO) advises maintaining social distancing, preserving personal hygiene, and staying informed with the latest guidelines. WHO also reports the patients with robust immunity can combat the virus. However, the workers in the construction industry work and live in a crowded and non-hygiene environment. Moreover, they are characterized by illiteracy, a dearth of awareness, and chronic health problems that prove weak immunity. Therefore, this study aims to find the relationship between the virus and the prevailing conditions and the environment of the construction industry, under focus, and study so that the construction industry is not a vulnerability gap that may exacerbate the crisis. An extensive literature exploration for the latest research deals with coronavirus, the construction industry ergonomics, and its relevant diseases. This study makes robust alerts to motivate the governments, organizations, and individuals to collaborate to find solutions to close the gap between the current situation in the construction of ergonomics and the required precaution to avoid the outbreak of the virus. This study makes a crucial and novel contribution by paving the way for providing solutions to save humanity worldwide. The management system should review the conventional risk assessment procedures, and developed criteria must be introduced and become an everyday practice of all construction projects. This will help identify the gaps within the safety procedures associated with the COVID – 19 protection aspects. This article also introduces a framework in this regard.

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Ahmed Fahim Elgendi mail -
Ashraf Elhendawi mail -
Waleed Mahfouz M. A. Youssef mail -
Abdul Salam Darwish mail
link https://doi.org/10.54216/IJBES.040101

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Vol. Volume 4 / Iss. Issue 1

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International Journal of Neutrosophic Science | 2021

The static model of inventory management without a deficit with Neutrosophic logic

In this paper, we present an expansion of one of the well-known classical inventory management models, which is the static model of inventory management without a deficit and for a single substance, based on the neutrosophic logic, where we provide through this study a basis for dealing with all data, whether specific or undefined in the field of inventory management, as it provides  safe environment to manage inventory without running into deficit , and give us an approximate ideal volume of inventory. Since the ideal size is affected by the rate of demand for inventory, we present in this paper a study of the rate of demand for inventory when it is not precisely defined, and we find that the  indeterminate values ​​of the demand rate cannot be ignored, because they actually affect determining the ideal size of inventory and calculating its costs, thus affecting on the efficiency of the facility and achieve great profits for it.

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Maissam Jdid mail -
Rafif Alhabib mail -
A. A. Salama mail
link https://doi.org/10.54216/IJNS.160104

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Vol. Volume 16 / Iss. Issue 1

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Journal of Neutrosophic and Fuzzy Systems | 2021

Data with Turiyam Set for Fourth Dimension Quantum Information Processing

Recently, neutrosophic set is considered as one of the prominent tool to deal with human cognition in three-way fuzzy space. This set has given a way to characterize the human cognition in conscious, unconscious, or indeterminate state. The problem arises when a person realizes all of three states independently as silent mode. It is observed at voting time of Indian democratic system where some people vote in a favor of a party, do not vote in favor of a party, being absent and choose none of the above. The last consciousness is turiyam state which is independent from all. It also observed at time of feedback or rating given by an expert towards which used to based on internal communication rather than true, false and uncertain activity. The internal communication which prvodies the opinion towards rating about any organization or employee is called as Turiya or Fourth dimension cognition. This paper try to introduce this fourth dimension of human cognitions as a new set called as Turiyam set with its graphical visualization via an illustrative example. 

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Prem Kumar Singh mail
link https://doi.org/10.54216/JNFS.010101

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Vol. Volume 1 / Iss. Issue 1

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American Journal of Business and Operations Research | 2021

Customer Churn Prediction using Sandpiper Optimization with Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit for Business Intelligence

Recent innovation in business intelligence (BI) assists companies to stay successful and competitive with the increasing business trend. Businesses have started to examine the succeeding level of data analytics and BI solution. At the same time, Customer Churn Prediction (CCP) is an essential procedure involved in business decision making that effectually determines the churn of clients and performs adequate processes to retain customers. With this motivation, this paper presents a sandpiper optimization with the bidirectional gated recurrent unit (SPO-BiGRU) for CCP on BI applications. The SPO-BiGRU model aims for determining the occurrence of customers into churners or non-churner. In addition, the SPO-BiGRU technique involves pre-processing, classification, and hyperparameter optimization. Followed by, the BiGRU model is applied to perform the predictive process. At last, the SPO algorithm is applied to optimally adjust the hyperparameters involved in the BiGRU model. For validating the enhanced performance of the SPO-BiGRU method, a wide range of simulations take place and the results are inspected under varying aspects. The experimental results portrayed the supremacy of the SPO-BiGRU technique over the recent state of art approaches.

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Akbal Omran Salman mail -
Mazin Abed Mohammed mail
link https://doi.org/10.54216/AJBOR.060103

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Vol. Volume 6 / Iss. Issue 1

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International Journal of Neutrosophic Science | 2022

Neutrsophic Health Analysis in Times of COVID-19

The current COVID-19 pandemic represents a danger for which efforts have been joined to find an effective treatment. This pandemic has evolved so quickly that new data emerge daily on the number of sick and fatal cases. As of September 2021, more than 180 countries with positive COVID-19 cases have been notified to the World Health Organization, including 228,807,631 confirmed cases, including 4,697,099 deaths. So far, the Americas region is the most affected with a total of 88,207,746 confirmed cases, and during this period, Ecuador has reported 246 new infections on average each day, for a total of 507,003 infections and 32,661 deaths. To date, dissimilar methods and treatments have been used to mitigate its effects. However, no effective treatment option has been found against it, generating uncertainty, social panic, and impacts on the population's mental health as a result of the fear of infection and death. That is why the present work focuses on analyzing and determining the alternatives for the control of detection of the pandemic, through the processing of the neutrosophic TOPSIS method. It offers many benefits in the analysis of neutralities to the study of indeterminacies in the field of Medicine. The processing using neutrosophic methods allowed obtaining the best alternative to fight against COVID-19.

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Marcelo Viteri Villa mail -
Lester Wong Vázquez mail -
Roberto Zúñiga Viteri mail
link https://doi.org/10.54216/IJNS.1803019

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Vol. Volume 18 / Iss. Issue 3

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