Adoção BIM na microrregião dos sertões de Crateús: um diagnóstico a partir da perspectiva de múltiplos stakeholders

Abstract

The Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a methodology capable of restructuring processes, policies and technologies in the construction industry, benefiting the society as a whole. However, the implementation of BIM at Brazil is still in an incipient, despite of efforts, such as Estratégia BIM BR.Among others factors, this is related to a heterogenity of construction industry in a continental nation like Brazil that difficults the diffusion of actions to improve the implementation of BIM. This demands to consider local aspects to reach the most diverse microregions. Thus, this work investigated the BIM adoption in a micro-regional perspective, based on a case study of the civil construction industry in the backlands of Crateús, a microregion in the state of Ceará, northeast of Brazil. For that, fourteen in-depth interviews were conducted with the main stakeholders from civil construction of the microregion: construction companies, designers, educational institutions, public authorities, and class entities. From that, was possible to identify the respondent’s involvement with BIM, their point of view about the methodology at the micro regional level and the perspective about the performance of the other stakeholders on the BIM implantation. The level of BIM maturity of the sector was assessed using the macro-maturity components model of Succar and Kassem (2015). The result indicated that the performance of the micro region of Crateús was better than the state of Ceará. Moreover, the result was worse than Brazil, which indicates that actions on national level have not been reaching the small urban centers, highlighting the importance of this study. In addition, 21 barriers and maturity gaps were identified to be against the BIM adoption in the microregion, among which stand out the lack of knowledge about BIM and the resistance to the adoption of new technologies that serves as a basis for proposing guidelines for the BIM adoption in the microregion. It can be concluded that the BIM adoption has taken place at the micro regional level, even if in an embryonic way. In this way, the study has contributed by expanding the diagnosis of BIM in Brazil, offering subsidies for the elaboration of more appropriate strategies related to the reality of the sector in regional centers. Notwithstanding, contributes to increasing the capillarity of this new way of developing construction projects and to regional development. Future works were suggested.