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Building Information Modelling in Healthcare Design and Construction: A Bibliometric Review and Systematic Review

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Advances in Information Technology in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE 2022)

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Healthcare facilities play a key role in responding United Nations goals, such as sustainability, health and welling. The outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic has driven much attention to expanding healthcare capacity through advanced digital technologies, such as Building Information Modelling (BIM). Nevertheless, a systematic review of research achievements is lacking. This research uses bibliometric and systemic literature review methods to investigate BIM applications in Healthcare Design and Construction (HDC). The bibliometric investigation focuses on country, journal co-citation, and keyword clustering analyses. The systematic review classifies application domains, BIM actions, and other digital technologies accompanying BIM. Finally, 17 major BIM actions are summarized for six major domains, including operability, resilience, collaboration, sustainability and constructability. This study reveals that the outbreak of COVID-19 has greatly stimulated the academic interest in digital technologies for HDC, and there is geographical uniqueness highly relevant to local government policies and national healthcare services. However, related research is still in a relatively preliminary stage.

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China: [Grant Number U21A20151].

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    Tan Tan, Grant Mills, Eleni Papadonikolaki & Yue Xu

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Tan, T., Mills, G., Papadonikolaki, E., Xu, Y., Chen, K. (2024). Building Information Modelling in Healthcare Design and Construction: A Bibliometric Review and Systematic Review. In: Skatulla, S., Beushausen, H. (eds) Advances in Information Technology in Civil and Building Engineering. ICCCBE 2022. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 357. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35399-4_30

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