| Summary: | Building Information Modeling (BIM) in this age of digital construction is very well established as a technology to solve and encourage building stakeholders to address issues in the construction industry such as the disintegration of construction processes, weak project management, and issues relating to the project execution, such as delays and cost overruns. Nevertheless, many scholars have found that one of the main barriers in BIM adoption is the unresolved legal and contractual issues. Until today, the contractual requirements for BIM implementation is still unsettled to overcome interoperability issues in BIM processes, ownership of BIM data and models, unclear payment mechanism and the most crucial is the non-availability of BIM provisions in the standard forms of contract. This paper aims to propose a conceptual framework on the strategic process protocol for BIM contract administration in Malaysia. It reviewed the current literature and suggested the adoption of qualitative research as the strategy for the primary data collection. The proposed exploratory study aims to analyse the contractual issues and find solutions for improving the existing implementation. Findings from the literature conceptualise the importance of having the right contractual practice as one of the improvement pillars in BIM adoption. It is hoped that the study will contribute to a new knowledge of BIM contract administration in project management and construction studies, increase the awareness on the contractual rights and responsibilities amongst the BIM stakeholders, thus to enhance the utilisation of BIM as the catalyst for digital construction. © 2021, Construction Research Institute of Malaysia. All rights reserved.
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