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Proposal of a Special Issue for International Journal of Project Management

Special theme on: "Advances in Building Information Modeling (BIM) for
Construction Projects"

1. Introduction
The competitive global business environment calls for the
deployment of various levels of strategies and technologies on
enterprise and their projects. The successful delivery of
large-scale construction projects require significant planning,
design, construction and project management efforts. Building
Information Modeling (BIM) is an enabling technology and the
processes which can significantly transform the project delivery
process and add value across the whole project lifecycle.
Nowadays, the technology side of BIM is becoming more
popular and mature in different sectors of the construction
industry. However, the proper understanding of change in
business processes and practices that come with BIM implementation, along with the project management aspect of BIM, is still a
young area of academic inquiry.
Without the proper studies of the associated project management processes and managerial side of BIM, the successful
adoption of BIM on projects, particularly on large-scale and
capital intensive projects is going to be extremely challenging. In
this regard, this special issue focusing on project management of
large-scale construction projects in relation to BIM is timely and
critical to coordinate and manage overall project information,
processes and aligning project and organizational strategies for
improved project performance throughout the entire lifecycle of a
project. This soft area of BIM research is rather new but has a
huge potential to impact on the overall management of projects.
Even a small improvement in any of the project management
processes can make a huge difference on overall cost, time, quality
and sustainability of projects.
This special theme on International Journal of Project
Management (IJPM) is aimed at addressing the abovementioned agenda by incorporating BIM in the management
of large-scale projects. We invite scholars to submit innovative
E-mail addresses: Xiangyu.Wang@curtin.edu.au (X. Wang),
mauro.mancini@polimi.it (M. Mancini), rm.skitmore@qut.edu.au
(M. Skitmore), Raymond-issa@ufl.edu (R. Issa).

and thoughtful research on BIM case studies, real world

organizational and project issues and best practices that have
significant contributions on theory building or the practice of
project management on large scale projects/megaprojects.
2. Scope
Examples of a range of BIM-related topics for this special
issue include, but are not limited to:

Project management
Contractual arrangements
Information management and integrations
Strategic management
Communication and coordination
Innovative procurement methods based on BIM
Decision making
Dispute resolution
Productivity studies
Performance measurement and effectiveness
Relationship management
Sustainability
Lifecycle management
Culture and union studies
Modular construction
Global information sharing in international construction
Construction Innovation

3. Submission process
Authors are kindly asked to first submit a 1000-word abstract.
Please submit abstracts directly to the guest editor at mauro.
mancini@polimi.it. The editors will invite papers based on the
abstracts. Papers must be submitted online at http://ees.elsevier.
com/jpma carefully following the Guide for Authors. Submitted
papers will be subject to the usual IJPM double-blind review
process with multiple reviewers. All queries should be submitted
directly to the guest editor.

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Please cite this article as: X. Wang, et al., 2014. Proposal of a Special Issue for International Journal of Project Management, Int. J. Proj. Manag. http://dx.doi.org/
10.1016/j.ijproman.2014.08.001

Proposal of a Special Issue for International Journal of Project Management

4. Timeline

Abstract submission deadline: 1 June 2015

Paper submission deadline: 1 October 2015
Notifications to authors: 1 January 2016
Expected publication date: 1 July 2016

Mauro Mancini
Guest Editor
Department of Management Economics and Industrial
Engineering Politecnico di Milano - Italy
E-mail address: Mauro.Mancini@polimi.it.

Martin Skitmore
Guest Editor
Science and Engineering Faculty Queensland
University of Technology, Australia
E-mail address: rm.skitmore@qut.edu.au
Raymond Issa
Guest Editor
Rinker School of Building Construction University of
Florida, Florida
E-mail address: Raymond-issa@u.edu
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Xiangyu Wang
Guest Editor
Australasian Joint Research Centre for Building Information
Modelling Curtin University, Australia
E-mail address: Xiangyu.Wang@curtin.edu.au

Please cite this article as: X. Wang, et al., 2014. Proposal of a Special Issue for International Journal of Project Management, Int. J. Proj. Manag. http://dx.doi.org/
10.1016/j.ijproman.2014.08.001