Actors' Freedom Of Enactment In A Loosely Coupled System: The Use Of Building Information Modelling In Construction Projects
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چکیده
Construction design is typically a collaborative effort involving multiple design professionals covering different areas of expertise. These professionals typically form ‘loosely coupled’ temporary project organisations for the duration it takes to accomplish their work. Even though construction designers operate in loosely coupled systems, their work tasks are highly interdependent. Additionally, the designers are interdependent in their use of technology and need to fuse and integrate their information systems (e.g. Building Information Modelling [BIM] systems) for the project’s duration. The controversial situation of being highly interdependent in conjunction with having to operate in a loosely coupled system is discussed in this paper. These two characteristics of project-based work along with the notion of the actors’ position in the process chain, are then conceptualized to have an impact on the actors’ freedom of enactment in using a certain technology. However, the actors’ freedom of enactment cannot always be directly transformed into constituted enactment. Instead, improvised practices emerge or actors simply decide not to constitute the possible enactment. We develop a conceptual framework to capture the interplay of the aforementioned concepts. As an initial validation, we test the plausibility of the framework using data from two construction projects that involve the use of BIM systems.
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