Analysis of BIM application relationship with integration degree of construction environment

As the world pays more attention to low-carbon and sustainable development, there's a growing trend in architecture, engineering and construction fields to construct greener, more energy efficient and more sustainable buildings with the help of building information modeling (BIM). As BIM application becomes popular in industry, more and more scholars and engineers point out that an integrated construction environment is better for BIM's fully functional capability. This paper illustrates the relationship between BIM application and an integrated construction environment based on case survey data. It is found that even though an integration construction environment is not necessary in BIM application, the statistical results showed that DBB (design-bid-build) and CM (construction management) modes have great differences in BIM's application implementation scope and implementation deepness, while DB and CM modes do not.