Regional Conference in Civil Engineering (RCCE) 62 The Third International Conference on Civil Engineering Research (ICCER) August 1 st -2 nd 2017, Surabaya – Indonesia The Framework of Building Information Modeling (BIM) Implementation Stages for Malaysian Construction Industry Nur Soleha Abdul Rahim 1 , Sharifah Akmam Syed Zakaria 2 1 Doctorate Student, School of Civil Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia 2 Lecturer, School of Civil Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia Abstract Building Information Modeling (BIM) has attracted ever increasing attentions from construction industry stakeholders around the world including Malaysia. Numerous studies have been conducted in exploring the benefits of BIM and proposing strategies for BIM implementation. However, to convince the industry stakeholders to implement BIM technology is relatively challenging. Tangible evidences are needed to bring up the industry’s acceptability towards the technology. In Malaysia, the Construction Industry Transformation Programme (CITP) has been developed to drive the transformation and development of the construction industry. One of the cases highlighted in the CITP is on the limited adoption of information technology such as BIM. Therefore, currently the Malaysian government is actively engaging with construction industry stakeholders to encourage the BIM implementation. This paper aims to propose a framework of BIM implementation stages in the construction industry of Malaysia. Three case studies have been analysed as a fundamental study to develop the framework. The results show that two of the companies are at the adaptation stage and one of the companies is at the application stage. At this point of time, the results indicate that the companies are more comfortable to experience only some part of the BIM benefits compared to fully utilise the technology. Fundamentally, the companies will only be at the adoption stage once the confidence level towards the technology is increasing and the companies will be categorised in the application stage when the companies are able to perform knowledge transfer related to BIM technology. This implementation stages can be used as an indicator to predict the direction of BIM in Malaysia. Thus, to ensure the successfulness of BIM implementation, there is a need to understand the current stages of company’s BIM implementation and propose the criteria needed for a company to move from one BIM stage to another. Keywords Building Information Modeling, Implementation Stages, Malaysian Construction Industry I. INTRODUCTION The construction industry is always been associated with the issues related to cost overrun [1], delay [2] and massive waste production [3]. These issues occurred due to the lack of communication and often changes of project design during the construction phase. Over the last few decades, information technology (IT) plays an important role in enhancing communication and efficiency of the construction process [4]. Currently, majority of the construction industry players are using IT tools such as 2D AutoCAD to enhance the performance of its delivered products and most of the players are already exposed to 3D modeling. However, recently, the latest ICT tool, Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been introduced to the Malaysian construction industry to reduce construction cost and avoid design problems. By adopting this kind of technology, waste production from construction can be minimised at the design and construction stages as well as throughout the lifecycle of the project [5]. BIM attracted a considerable amount of attention from construction industry stakeholders around the world due to its compromising benefits, yet the implementation is still slow. Since then, numerous studies have been conducted in exploring the benefits of BIM and proposing strategies for BIM implementation. The Ministry of Works Malaysia (MoW), in collaboration with the Construction Industry Development Board Malaysia (CIDB) has produced the five-year plan (2016-2020) for the construction industry called Construction Industry Transformation Programme (CITP). CITP was developed through the discussion with a wide range of construction stakeholders to gather inputs and support [6]. In September 2015, the Prime Minister of Malaysia has launched the CITP to drive the transformation and continue the development of Malaysia’s construction industry [7]. In CITP, BIM has been highlighted in one of the case to change under the productivity thrust. Thus, it shows that the Government is taking serious on the development and implementation of BIM. In order to fully understand the industry’s acceptability towards the technology, a proper framework is needed to explore and monitor the company’s level of BIM implementation. 1.1 Building Information Modeling (BIM) Studies in Malaysia BIM is one of the newer technologies that brings a lot of benefits to the construction industry and been predicted to be a main pillar of the construction industry in future. Numerous versions of BIM definitions exist in the previous research when BIM started to received attentions from construction industry stakeholders. According to National BIM steering committee, “BIM is a modeling technology with associated set of tools and processes to produce, communicate, analyse and use of