Edinburgh Napier University

  Over the years, Building Information Modelling (BIM) has been transforming the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Industries across the globe. Many benefits have been reported by the early adopters of BIM from inception to decommissioning stage of the project cycle. Despite these benefits, many countries are still lagging in the adoption and implementation in their construction industry. The Nigerian construction industry which is bedevilled by myriads of challenges such as cost overrun, time overrun, project abandonment and disputes among others stand to gain a lot with BIM. However, there is slow BIM intake and there is a dearth of studies on BIM in the Nigerian construction Industry. The BIM research in Nigeria is in its nascent stages and there is a need to understand the current situation of BIM in Nigeria. Extant studies have embarked on various research to study the awareness, adoption, implementation, and challenges both from the industry perspective and academia perspective. Hitherto, there has been no systematic review of the adoption and implementation of BIM in the Nigerian construction industry. This research adopted an interpretivist epistemology approach with a light touch of metanalysis to conduct a systematic review of the BIM studies in Nigeria. A total of 46 papers were used for the analysis and the status of BIM adoption and implementation, challenges, benefits and drivers in the Nigeria AEC was presented. This study provides its readers with the status quo of BIM and set the scene for further studies on BIM in the Nigerian AEC industry.