The Internet of Things (IoT) is an interconnected network of objects which range from simple sensors to smartphones and tablets; it is a relatively novel paradigm that has been rapidly gaining ground in the sc...
Authors: Manuel Silverio-Fernández, Suresh Renukappa and Subashini Suresh
The digital process of Building Information Modeling (BIM) involves the creation and modification of CAD-based building models. The complexity of such models has been increasing steadily within the last few ye...
Authors: Andre Vonthron, Christian Koch and Markus König
Settlements induced by tunneling in inner urban areas can easily damage above ground structures. This already has to be considered in early planning of tunneling routes. Assessing the risk of damages to struct...
Authors: Marcel Neuhausen, Markus Obel, Alexander Martin, Peter Mark and Markus König
This paper explores the potential for using remotely sensed data from a combination of commercial and open-sources, to improve the functionality, accuracy of energy-use calculations and visualisation of carbon...
Authors: Nashwan Dawood, Huda Dawood, Sergio Rodriguez-Trejo and Michael Crilly
Within the current organization of design activities it is difficult to fully realize the potential of BIM (Building Information Modelling). In BIM processes, it is necessary to identify and exchange the speci...
Authors: Charles-Edouard Tolmer, Christophe Castaing, Youssef Diab and Denis Morand
Technological developments and globalized working processes have transformed the building process. However, current digital semantic building models no longer adequately represent the increasing complexity of ...
Authors: Johannes Roith, Christoph Langenhan and Frank Petzold
Lighting simulation tools are extending the functionality of Building Information Modeling (BIM) authoring software applications to support the lighting design analysis of buildings. Although such tools enable...
Authors: Worawan Natephra, Ali Motamedi, Tomohiro Fukuda and Nobuyoshi Yabuki
With the rising adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the AEC sector, computational models supersede traditional ways of information provision based on textual documents and two-dimensional drawin...
Authors: Cornelius Preidel, Simon Daum and André Borrmann
Visibility Graph Analysis (VGA) is a space syntax method for quantifying some socio-spatial properties of the built environment by mapping the floor plan into a grid. Presently, VGA mainly relies on mean value...
Authors: Peiman Amini Behbahani, Ning Gu and Michael Ostwald
Injuries and fatalities resulting from work place accidents remain a global concern within the construction and engineering sectors. Education and training of personnel are two of the primary approaches for es...
Authors: Mohamad Kassem, Leila Benomran and Jochen Teizer
If unprocessed natural materials are the most environmentally friendly construction materials available, how do we develop and communicate design model and construction information that allows dealing with the...
Offshore oil and gas platforms generally have a lifetime of 30 to 40 years, and platform decommissioning is a major issue because many of the existing offshore oil and gas platforms are reaching the end of the...
Authors: Jack C. P. Cheng, Yi Tan, Yongze Song, Xin Liu and Xiangyu Wang
The construction industry is responsible for 50% of the solid waste generated worldwide. Governments around the world formulate legislation and regulations concerning recycling and re-using building materials,...
Authors: Xin Janet Ge, Peter Livesey, Jun Wang, Shoudong Huang, Xiangjian He and Chengqi Zhang
With advances in technologies that enabled massive visual data collection and BIM, the AEC industry now has an unprecedented amount of visual data (e.g., images and videos) and BIMs. One of the past efforts to...
Construction companies typically work on many projects simultaneously each with its own objectives and resource demands. Consequently, a key managerial function is to allocate financial, equipment, and human r...
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is becoming a standard in Architecture, Building and Construction (ABC) industries. It provides a method for a unified representation of information about building througho...
The effective 3D manipulation, comprehension, and control of 3D objects on computers are well-established lasting problems, which include a display aspect, a control aspect, and a spatial coupling between cont...
Authors: Chao-Chung Yang, Shih-Chung Jessy Kang, Hsiang-Wen Yang and Tzong-Hann Wu
In the construction industry, the productivity of all trades is directly impacted by uncertainty and variability. For repetitive projects, smooth work flow of productive resources is necessary to minimize or e...
This paper reports on a case study of the use of visualization of geospatial data that is distributed across data sets and requires integration over time and space to aid decision makers. Like many State Highw...
Authors: Jojo France-Mensah, William J. O’Brien, Nabeel Khwaja and Loyl C. Bussell
Islamic architectural history encompasses a substantial amount of information that needs to be categorized and digitally modeled so it can be utilized proficiently in the design phases of any project that seek...
As offsite prefabrication and modular construction continue to gain momentum into the future, material supply chain becomes increasingly complex for modern construction projects. Pre-engineered material supply...
Authors: Jing Liu, Meimanat Soleimanifar and Ming Lu
The pace of diffusion of BIM (Building Information Modelling) use is considered to increase with governmental initiatives in which public clients in countries like Finland, Singapore, United Kingdom, and Swede...
Authors: Petra Bosch-Sijtsema, Anders Isaksson, Martin Lennartsson and Henrik C. J. Linderoth
The concept of building information management (BIM) is based on its holistic nature. This idea pays off, if all relevant information is fused into one consistent data set. As a consequence, the completeness o...
Authors: Ulrich Krispel, Henrik Leander Evers, Martin Tamke and Torsten Ullrich
Many research and development efforts have been made for automated compliance checking of building designs with regulatory requirements, but there is a lack of a non-proprietary and user-understandable represe...
Generally, there are different optimal solutions with regard to urban landscape planning depending on the area and the opinions and characteristics of community residents. Furthermore, when considering urban l...
Authors: Seiki Koma, Yuichiro Yamabe and Akinori Tani
