This paper addresses the subject of design changes management in the context of a
multidisciplinary collaborative Building Information Models (BIM) environment. Within
Building projects organization field, This research aims to use change managemen
t as tool
for design and decision making.
The proposed method for the management of design changes depends on both
modeling the elements of structure based on BIM and using parameter-based design
structure matrix as tool for Change Management in a way that will support the effective
flow of information between disciplines, and thus reduces design changes, and will be able
to trace a series of successive changes within the BIM environment.
This paper offers different necessary models to build the DSM; then they are fed by
the information of a commercial building project collected from design engineers.
The proposed method represents the various dependencies between the parameters of
building and evaluates their impact on the levels of elements, the whole system and
subsystems in a way that allows to identify the critical parameters and predict some of the
iterative cycles of change to avoid unnecessary rework.