An investigation of legal aspects of BIM in construction contracts

Date

2019-04-17

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Kaya, Fatih
Akçamete Güngör, Aslı
Birgönül, Mustafa Talat

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Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been adopted worldwide in recent years as a novel way of working that enables efficiency in the construction industry. Lately, numerous countries made it compulsory to utilize BIM in public construction projects. Similarly, BIM became a contractual requirement in some public infrastructure and Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) projects in Turkey. However, in order to benefit from the advantages of BIM, some legal concerns such as intellectual property, liability, legal validity should be taken into account while using BIM. Several widely used standards of contracts in the world, such as New Engineering Contract (NEC) and Joint Contract Tribunal (JCT), have published additional documents by addressing some perceived barriers to BIM adoption, to facilitate making these construction contracts compatible with BIM. However, there are no commonly accepted standard contracts in Turkey that address BIM usage, apart from the technical specifications for BIM utilized on several projects. Therefore, in this paper an investigation of legal aspects of BIM as identified in the literature and considered in standard contracts is performed, to emphasize the legal concerns that should be addressed in provisions of contracts.

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BIM, Legal aspects, Construction contract

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http://www.icearc2019.com/Home/ConferenceProceedings
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/83407

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International Civil Engineering and Architecture Conference ( 17 - 20 Nisan 2019)

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Department of Civil Engineering, Conference / Seminar

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F. Kaya, A. Akçamete Güngör, and M. T. Birgönül, “An investigation of legal aspects of BIM in construction contracts,” Trabzon, Türkiye, 2019, p. 214, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: http://www.icearc2019.com/Home/ConferenceProceedings.