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Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Smart Cities: The Role of Governance, Regulations and Policies

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Existing literature focuses mainly on the benefits of SCs, particularly the impact of technology, however, efforts to explore the current challenges in implementing technology in SCs have been limited. The purpose of this research is to investigate the benefits and challenges of BIM in the development of SCs and to examine the role of governance, regulations, and policies in SCs; determining if the extant initiatives are sufficient or not. A sequential explanatory mixed-methods design approach was employed. Data has been gathered from 54 questionnaires, followed by semi-structured interviews to gain additional qualitative data. The main quantitative and qualitative findings show that data privacy and security are the biggest technological challenges in SC development and that further regulation and legislation is required to protect citizens against privacy threats. The results of this work can be useful to professionals and policy makers working on SCs as well as researchers to better understand the current gaps.

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Gulamhusein, A., Bolpagni, M. (2022). Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Smart Cities: The Role of Governance, Regulations and Policies. In: Özener, O.Ö., Ofluoglu, S., Isikdag, U. (eds) Advances in Building Information Modeling. EBF 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1627. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16895-6_12

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