Ordering in disguise: digital integration in built-environment practices

Cidik, Mustafa Selcuk and Boyd, David and Thurairajah, Niraj (2017) Ordering in disguise: digital integration in built-environment practices. BUILDING RESEARCH & INFORMATION, 45. pp. 665-680. ISSN 0961-3218

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Abstract

The digital integration of built-environment practices aims to bridge a large variety of organizations to improve building delivery and operation. However, recent research on building information modelling (BIM) reported organizational challenges arising from digital integration. This suggests
a need to develop a critical perspective on digital-integration-driven organizational change. Adopting a practice-based approach, this paper exposes the practice-level phenomenon responsible for the ongoing change to develop a critical understanding and enable better interventions. The concepts of ‘simplification’ and ‘systematization’ of digital integration are
developed from previous literature and then used to explore and interrelate the practice-level experiences of digital integration (i.e. the experience of the change from within) and the emerging patterns of interactions (i.e. the picture of the change from outside) in a BIM-enabled design project. The concept of ‘ordering in disguise’ is proposed to capture this phenomenon. It
shows that practitioners experience digital integration as various task-specific instances of unresponsive technology. However, they are unaware that their ongoing efforts to accommodate it actually further reinforce digital integration’s simplification and systematization.
This makes the unresponsiveness of technology harder to challenge, and ultimately forces the organization to change and adapt to it. Implications for management of practice are outlined.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Building Research and Information on 11th May 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09613218.2017.1309767
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2017.1309767
Dates:	Date Event 11 May 2017 Published Online
Uncontrolled Keywords:	building information modelling (BIM), digital technologies, organizational management, socio-technical, technological change, technology policy
Subjects:	CAH13 - architecture, building and planning > CAH13-01 - architecture, building and planning > CAH13-01-02 - building
Divisions:	Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment > School of Engineering and the Built Environment Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment > School of Engineering and the Built Environment > School of Built Environment
Depositing User:	Ian Mcdonald
Date Deposited:	12 Jun 2017 09:27
Last Modified:	22 Mar 2023 12:15
URI:	https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/4616

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