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JPMA-01678; No of Pages 2huge potential to impact on the overall management of projects.Even a small improvement in any of the project managementprocesses canmake a huge difference on overall cost, time, qualityand sustainability of projects.

This special theme on International Journal of ProjectManagement (IJPM) is aimed at addressing the above-

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3. Submission process

Authors are kindly asked to first submit a 1000-word abstract.Please submit abstracts directly to the guest editor at mauro.improved project performance throughout the entire lifecycle of aproject. This soft area of BIM research is rather new but has acritical to coordinate and manage overall project information,processes and aligning project and organizational strategies for

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1. Introduction

The competitive global business environment calls for thedeployment of various levels of strategies and technologies onenterprise and their projects. The successful delivery oflarge-scale construction projects require significant planning,design, construction and project management efforts. BuildingInformation Modeling (BIM) is an enabling technology and theprocesses which can significantly transform the project deliveryprocess and add value across the whole project lifecycle.

Nowadays, the technology side of BIM is becoming morepopular and mature in different sectors of the constructionindustry. However, the proper understanding of change inbusiness processes and practices that come with BIM implemen-tation, along with the project management aspect of BIM, is still ayoung area of academic inquiry.

Without the proper studies of the associated project manage-ment processes and managerial side of BIM, the successfuladoption of BIM on projects, particularly on large-scale andcapital intensive projects is going to be extremely challenging. Inthis regard, this special issue focusing on project management oflarge-scale construction projects in relation to BIM is timely andmentioned agenda by incorporating BIM in the managementof large-scale projects. We invite scholars to submit innovative

E-mail addresses: Xiangyu.Wang@curtin.edu.au (X. Wang),mauro.mancini@polimi.it (M. Mancini), rm.skitmore@qut.edu.au(M. Skitmore), Raymond-issa@ufl.edu (R. Issa).

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2014.08.001

Please cite this article as: X. Wang, et al., 2014. Proposal of a Special Issue for Inte10.1016/j.ijproman.2014.08.001ional Journal of Project Managementng Information Modeling (BIM) forProjects"

and thoughtful research on BIM case studies, real worldorganizational and project issues and best practices that havesignificant contributions on theory building or the practice ofproject management on large scale projects/megaprojects.

2. Scope

Examples of a range of BIM-related topics for this specialissue include, but are not limited to:

Project management Contractual arrangements Information management and integrations Strategic management Communication and coordination Innovative procurement methods based on BIM Decision making Dispute resolution Productivity studies Performance measurement and effectiveness Relationship management Sustainability

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t xx (2014) xxxxxxmancini@polimi.it. The editors will invite papers based on theabstracts. Papers must be submitted online at http://ees.elsevier.com/jpma carefully following the Guide for Authors. Submittedpapers will be subject to the usual IJPM double-blind reviewprocess with multiple reviewers. All queries should be submitteddirectly to the guest editor.

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4. Timeline

Abstract submission deadline: 1 June 2015 Paper submission deadline: 1 October 2015 Notifications to authors: 1 January 2016 Expected publication date: 1 July 2016

Mauro ManciniGuest Editor

Department of Management Economics and IndustrialEngineering Politecnico di Milano - Italy

E-mail address: Mauro.Mancini@polimi.it.

Xiangyu WangGuest Editor

Australasian Joint Research Centre for Building InformationModelling Curtin University, Australia

E-mail address: Xiangyu.Wang@curtin.edu.au

Martin SkitmoreGuest Editor

Science and Engineering Faculty QueenslandUniversity of Technology, Australia

E-mail address: rm.skitmore@qut.edu.au

Raymond IssaGuest Editor

Rinker School of Building Construction University ofFlorida, Florida

E-mail address: Raymond-issa@u.edu

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Proposal of a Special Issue for International Journal of Project Management1. Introduction2. Scope3. Submission process4. Timeline