Contemporary communication mediums in isolation have reached a technological plateau, proximal communication is no longer limited by spatial or technological constraints. However, integration of communication ...
Smart technologies and the Internet of Things (IoT), have the potential to play a significant role in enabling older people to age in place. Although there has been substantial development of new applications ...
Given that the nanoscale regime has been reached, atomistic simulations are being used as predictive tools on a nanoscopic scale in nanoelectronics, materials science, and computational fluid dynamics. These s...
Authors: Daniel Mejia, Tillmann Kubis and Gerhard Klimeck
Ever growing population and progressive municipal business demands for constructing new buildings are known as the foremost contributor to greenhouse gasses. Therefore, improvement of energy efficiency of the ...
Authors: Saleh Seyedzadeh, Farzad Pour Rahimian, Ivan Glesk and Marc Roper
A successful project delivery based on building information modeling (BIM) methods is interdependent on an efficient collaboration. This relies mainly on the visualization of a BIM model, which can appear on d...
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...
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...
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
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
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 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
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
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
Today, the architectural, engineering, construction, and operation (AECO) industry is motivated to employ graduates educated about Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools, techniques, and processes, which he...
Authors: Amarnath Chegu Badrinath, Yun‐Tsui Chang and Shang‐Hsien Hsieh
Marine radar simulator is a useful approach endorsed by International Maritime Organization (IMO) to train the seafarers on how to operate marine radar equipment and use marine radar equipment for positioning ...
Authors: Shuguang Ji, Zhang Zhang, Hongbiao Yang, Dan Liu and Rapinder Sawhney
The accurate, efficient and economical monitoring of settlements caused by tunnel boring machines, especially in regions of particular interest such as critical inner city areas, has become an important aspect...
Authors: Steffen Schindler, Felix Hegemann, Christian Koch, Markus König and Peter Mark
Project archives are becoming increasingly large and complex. On construction projects in particular, the increasing amount of information and the increasing complexity of its structure make searching and expl...
Facility management (FM) is an important phase in the building lifecycle. Although building information modeling (BIM) technology has been widely used in the design and construction phase, efforts to transfer ...
Authors: Wan-Li Lee, Meng-Han Tsai, Cheng-Hsuan Yang, Jhih-Ren Juang and Jui-Yu Su
One school of thought argues that the Traditional Chinese Private Garden's (TCPG) primary spatial property is that it features both freestanding buildings in space, and spaces freely positions in the landscape...
Nowadays wind energy is becoming increasingly significant in the planning, development and growth of new electricity supply systems. Special attention has been given to land-based turbines for ensuring the eff...
Authors: Laura Alvarez-Anton, Manuel Koob, Joaquin Diaz and Jens Minnert
Presenting significant building or engineering 3D-models is a crucial part of the planning, construction and maintenance phases in terms of collaboration and understanding. Especially in complex or large-scale...
Over the past few years, the application of camera-equipped Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for visually monitoring construction and operation of buildings, bridges, and other types of civil infrastructure sys...
Authors: Youngjib Ham, Kevin K. Han, Jacob J Lin and Mani Golparvar-Fard
Finding the current location of a specific utility or oneself in an unfamiliar facility can be difficult and time consuming. The hypothesis tested in this paper is that using the information contained within B...
In virtue of their capability to measure temperature, thermal infrared cameras have been widely used in building diagnostics for detecting heat loss, air leakage, water damage etc. However, the lack of visual ...
Maintaining an up-to-date record of the number, type, location, and condition of high-quantity low-cost roadway assets such as traffic signs is critical to transportation inventory management systems. While, d...
Authors: Vahid Balali, Armin Ashouri Rad and Mani Golparvar-Fard
Wayfinding is an exceedingly complicated cognitive process, especially in complex environments such as hospitals, shopping centers and airports. Inhabitants of such large environments can become lost very easi...
Authors: Mi Jeong Kim, Xiangyu Wang, Sooyeon Han and Ying Wang
Rate models for predicting vehicular emissions of nitrogen oxides (NO X) are insensitive to the vehicle modes of operation, such as cruise, acceleration, deceleration and i...
Authors: Seth Daniel Oduro, Santanu Metia, Hiep Duc, Guang Hong and Q.P. Ha
Simulation is a proven technique for effective construction site layout planning and heavy equipment resource optimization. Traditional simulation uses historical data as input for task durations. Data is fed ...
In recent years, the population structure in Taiwan has changed so dramatically. Based on concerns of social welfare issues, Taiwanese government began to seek principles for assessment of disability. After se...
Authors: Wei-Fen Hsieh, Lieu-Hen Chen, Hao-Ming Hung, Eri Sato-Shimokawara, Yasufumi Takama, Toru Yamaguchi, Eric Hsiao-Kuang Wu and Yu-Wei Chen
A reasonable management and monitoring of construction projects requires accurate construction schedules. Accuracy depends highly on availability of reliable actual logistics data. Such data contain informatio...
Taiwan experiences typhoons annually and the heavy rain accompanies a typhoon often causes flooding and damage. Local decision-makers invest heavily in flood-prevention measures thus need to allocate resources...
Authors: Meng-Han Tsai, Yu-Lien Chang, Catherine Kao and Shih-Chung Kang
The architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry lacks a framework for capturing, managing, and exchanging project, product, and social information over the lifecycle of a building. The current to...
Authors: Moumita Das, Jack CP Cheng and Srinath S Kumar
Demand response (DR) is referred to programs designed to manage and control electric loads. DR represents one of the vital tools utilized in power distribution networks to improve network efficiency. Effective...
