Chin Wei has experience in cost planning, cost management and quantity surveying services She has been involved in projects ranging from mixed development projects (i.e. residential, retail, hotels and offices), infrastructure works, medical centres, special facilities to a wide range of fit-out projects. She has presented a paper titled ‘A Preliminary Study on the BIM Competencies Required to the QS Education Programme’ at the 18th PAQS Congress in Hong Kong, and have it published in the International Surveying Research Journal. She has also provided a BIM knowledge sharing session to both Undergraduate and Postgraduate students in Herriot-Watt University.

Building Information Modelling (BIM) process is often desired to be incorporated by the project stakeholders. However, majority of the BIM models are produced at a level of development that is only sufficient and fit for design purposes. Information about quantities and costs is often neglected, hence quantity take-offs and generation of Bill of Quantities together with its cost estimates could not be considered as 5D BIM just yet. In Malaysia, the Bills of Quantities still hold a great importance in the pre- and post-contract phases. Hence in order to generate quantities out of the BIM model, a comprehensive thought process prior to the design stage is important to ensure a BIM process that could be described as integrated and automated. This paper includes a case study on the processes involved in order to adopt 5D BIM.