The concept of BIM is nascent but evolving rapidly, thus, its deployment has become the latest
shibboleth amongst both academics and practitioners in the construction sector in the recent
couple of years. Due to construction clients’ ‘buy-in’ of the BIM concept, the entire industry is
encouraged to pursue a vision of changing work practices in line with the BIM ideas. Also,
existing research recognises that the implementation of BIM affects all areas of the construction
process from design of the building, through the organisation of projects, to the way in which the
construction process is executed and how the finished product is maintained. The problem
however is that, existing research in technology utilisation in general, and BIM literature in
particular, has offered limited help to practitioners trying to implement BIM, for focusing
predominantly, on ‘technology-centric’ views. Not surprisingly therefore, the current BIM
literature emphasises on topics such as capability maturity models and anticipated outcomes of
BIM rollouts. Rarely does the extant literature offer practitioners a cohesive approach to BIM
implementation. Such technology-centric views inevitably represent a serious barrier to utilising
the inscribed capabilities of BIM.