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ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF NEW RULES OF COST PLANNING ON BUILDING INFORMATION MODEL (BIM) SCHEMA PERTINENT TO QUANTITY SURVEYING PRACTICE
Wilfred M. Matipa1, Paul Cunningham1, and Bhaven Naik2
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Liverpool John Moores University, School of the Built Environment, Liverpool, UK Department of Civil Engineering, University of Nebraska, 126 Nebraska Hall, Lincoln NE 68503, USA Not until recently, the establishment of a whole life cycle budget for a constructed facility largely depended on the initiative of using the standard method of measurements (SMM) structural approach to the development of a cost or budget plan. This method, argues the RICS (2009), “created inconsistency in measurement and descriptions, resulting in the production of unclear basis for the estimates”. The constraints associated with traditional cost planning and estimating tend to be compounded by the complexity associated with the deployment of building information model (BIM) technology that is pertinent to the achievement of whole life cycle cost management of a constructed facility. This research is aimed at exploring the impact of the new rules of measurement on the building information model schema pertinent to the quantity surveying practice on construction based projects. The research presumes that even though the new rules of measurement are not mandatory, they are likely to influence cost planning and estimating practice because they have been developed with a view to setting “the best practice” in the development of cost plans. The likely impact could subsequently affect the current building information model schema for cost management. Keywords: building information model, cost planning, quantity surveying, standard method of measurement.

INTRODUCTION
The cost planning process arose out of the need to plan effectively the cost of a construction project from inception through design and continuing throughout the construction phase (Corbett and Rowley, 1999). Because of financial

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