{"id":552,"date":"2017-10-12T23:03:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T15:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hku.hk\/wilson\/?p=552"},"modified":"2022-05-28T11:09:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T03:09:10","slug":"i-commented-on-building-information-modelling-bim-development-in-hong-kong-featured-in-south-china-morning-post-scmp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/wilson\/i-commented-on-building-information-modelling-bim-development-in-hong-kong-featured-in-south-china-morning-post-scmp\/","title":{"rendered":"I commented on Building Information Modelling (BIM) development in Hong Kong, featured in South China Morning Post (SCMP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"v2-processed\">Dr Wilson Lu, who conducts research on BIM at the University of Hong Kong\u2019s department of real estate and construction, said the local construction sector was notoriously slow in embracing change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v2-processed\">\u201cLocal practitioners are very clear about that. They earn good money, so why bother to change?\u201d Lu said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v2-processed\">\u201cThe key word in BIM is \u2018information\u2019. The information does not come without cost. Companies have to develop BIM and keep the information updated,\u201d Lu added. \u201cThis cost and expertise required is the major hurdle preventing BIM from being widely adopted.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read more from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/economy\/article\/2114511\/how-failure-keep-construction-technology-will-hit-hong-kong\">http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/economy\/article\/2114511\/how-failure-keep-construction-technology-will-hit-hong-kong<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Dr Wilson Lu, who conducts research on BIM at the University of Hong Kong\u2019s department of real estate and construction, said the local construction sector was notoriously slow in embracing change. \u201cLocal practitioners are very clear about that. They earn good money, so why bother to change?\u201d Lu said. \u201cThe key word in BIM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[14,13,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}