Sustainability via ERP and BIM Integration

Abstract

Sustainability is a paramount factor in the present construction industry which enhances the quality of life, thus allowing people to live in a healthy environment and improves social, economic and environmental conditions for present and future generations. Therefore, lots of construction companies have attempted to use different kinds of software for the development of sustainable structures. Two of those major software are Building Information Modelling system (BIM) and Enterprise Resource Planning system (ERP). This review seeks to identify how ERP and BIM addresses sustainability at the current level, a way of integrating BIM and ERP and how the integration of these two leads to sustainability of the projects according to the current literature. It is identified that there is a significant impact on sustainability by integrating ERP and BIM together than implementing them separately.