# Facilitators and Barriers in Applying Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Construction Industry
## 3 Results
### Education and Certificate System  
Whether the respondent has received BIM education previously, about 55% answered that they have no formal education regarding BIM. This seems an interesting result because based on previous survey results, only about 24% from the respondents denoted that their work has moderate to high relevance to BIM. In other words, there are more people who received formal BIM education (45%) but not using in their real working environment. Looking at education experience more closely, 40% of respondents received education for less than 1 week and only 4% had a continuous BIM education for longer than 6 months. Some of the written answers identified that most of 1-week education involves very basics about BIM tools, such as Revit, Archicad, or Bentley, meaning that it could be closer to a modeling education, not for BIM as an information platform. Figure 1: Respondents’ Professional Backgrounds and Years of Experience. Although almost half of the respondents answered that they have received formal BIM education and less than 30% indicated that their work has a relevance to BIM, more than 90% of the respondents agreed that AEC industry professionals need formal education regarding BIM. In addition, their intention about BIM education length shows that 32% answered 1 month is enough and 40% answered that 1 to 6 months are necessary length for proper BIM education. It seems that the professionals in AEC industry largely agree on BIM as a necessity requiring formal education. Many have identified that 1 week of education, which was the largest portion for BIM education from the respondents, is not enough, requesting for longer term. Some of the written answer indicated that they need more than just modeling education and there is a strong demand for learning BIM as an information platform that can manage entire project. As can be seen in Figure 2, more than 75% of the respondents agreed that there should be a certificate system for BIM professionals. Whether the certificate is about design, engineering, or construction, the professionals have consensus about making BIM as a professional field that needs government-managed certification system for a better utilization. Regarding the items that needs certification, the answers indicate that about 27% requested there should be a certificate for BIM software utilization, whereas 30% emphasized that a certificate should be given for project management using BIM. About 20% of the respondents answered that design certificate should be integrated with BIM modeling ability and 13.6% answered that BIM certificate needs to be given for construction process. Therefore, it could be regarded that professionals understand BIM certificate is required and more emphasis should be given to project management with BIM ability not just for software utilization. This is an intriguing result as it seems that many professionals now understand BIM as a management and information tool, rather than just a software. Regarding the main resources for BIM information, the majority of Korean engineers rely on education and individual connections. As can be seen in Figure 3, about 29.8% of the respondents indicated that they obtain information regarding BIM through internal and external education from the organizations and about 24% answered that they individually  
Figure 2: Responses about BIM Education and Certificate System. contact associated professionals for more information. International websites and journal articles are about 37% of their BIM resources. Although there are various resources about BIM online, still many experts rely on traditional education format or in-person contacts. This can be divided into age structure because most of the respondents from age 30s and 40s showed international and domestic websites as the main resources for BIM information and most of people with a tendency for traditional education came out to be older than 50s cohort.