Client's Role in Building Disaster Management through Building Information Modelling

The building construction stakeholders need to become more proactively involved in making buildings resilient to a wide range of disaster threats (Bosher, 2013). Clients in particular can play a vital role in the resilience of building disaster (Smart Market 2011). Building Information Modelling (BIM) is seen as a new technology, providing highly accurate information which can help to improve building disaster management. In this article a new conceptual framework will represent the relationship between BIM application benefits and the client organisation maturity levels. This framework will help the clients to fully understand and monitor the BIM benefits in building disaster management.