Showing papers in "Automation in Construction in 2011"

TL;DR: It is concluded that greater emphasis should be placed on supporting technical requirements to facilitate technology management and implementation across disciplines and their implications for user-centric technology development in design and construction industry.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study was conducted on Salisbury University's Perdue School of Business building to demonstrate the use of BIM for sustainable design and the LEED ® certification process.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a case study implementation of BIM technology in a small medium enterprise (SME) based on the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project with the John McCall Architects (JMA).

TL;DR: A BIM framework focusing on the issues of practicability for real-world projects is proposed, which can provide a basis for evaluating promising areas and identifying driving factors for practical BIM effectiveness.

TL;DR: An overview of the newly developed automated image-based reconstruction approach and exclusive features which distinct it from other image- based or conventional photogrammetric techniques is presented and the terrestrial laser scanning approach carried out for reconstruction and comparison of as-built scenes is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, a 4D structural information model is presented and established according to the overall solution of analysis and management for conflict and safety problems during construction, based on new developments in the Building Information Model (BIM), four-dimensional (4D) technology, timedependent structural analysis, collision detection, and so on.

TL;DR: A concrete implementation approach is presented for a semantic rule checking environment for building design and construction, and an implemented test case for acoustic performance checking illustrates the improvements of such an environment compared to traditionally deployed approaches in rule checking.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate a commercially available Ultra Wideband (UWB) system for real-time, mobile resource location tracking in harsh construction environments and demonstrate the applicability of UWB for the design of construction management support tools.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate various scenarios that can illustrate the uses of RFID technology in construction project management, including the management of materials, men, and machinery (M3) for construction projects.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the modeling effort associated with generating building information modeling (BIM) at different levels of detail and the impact of LoD in a project in supporting mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) design coordination.

TL;DR: The paper presents a framework for integrating BIM and games, and a sample experiment of real-time, interactive, and photorealistic walkthrough with a virtual user model to demonstrate the use and the potentials of the framework.

TL;DR: The development of a first prototype for the proactive safety management and real-time signaling of potential overhead hazards and the capability of proactive logics to reinforce safety management policies and assist personnel in coping with unpredictable hazardous events is reported.

TL;DR: The results showed that the WiFi-based indoor positioning system was accurate within 5 m of error for that site, thus proving the utility of the system for tracking the approximate locations of labor at construction sites.

TL;DR: A videogrammetric framework for acquiring spatial data of infrastructure which holds the promise to address this limitation by using a calibrated set of low-cost high resolution video cameras that is progressively traversed around the scene and aims to produce a dense 3D point cloud which is updated in each frame.

TL;DR: In this paper, the skeleton configurations of the points are identified using image thinning and the configurations are integrated into the distance field of crack points calculated through a distance transform, which can be automatically retrieved.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present experiences and lessons learned during the introduction of Building Information Models (BIM) in construction engineering project management courses and illustratively show that BIM-based project management tools helped the teachers of two courses to develop more realistic project-based class assignments that supported students with learning how to apply different formal project management methods to real-world project management problems.

TL;DR: A framework for the implementation of mobile computing on construction sites is introduced, which comprises an application model and a technical model that generalizes mobile computing technologies and gives system designers a clear structure for designing mobile computing systems from a technical perspective.

TL;DR: A cost/schedule control model integrates with the automated data acquisition technologies, a planning and scheduling software system, a relational database, and AutoCAD to generate progress reports that can assist project management teams in decision making.

TL;DR: An Augmented Reality (AR)-based equipment Operations and Maintenance fieldwork support application to improve efficiency at the site and the experimental evaluation of the application show that with the application the subjects saved, on average, 51% of time spent at task when they located target areas and 8% ofTime at task while obtaining sensor-based performance data from BAS.

TL;DR: A seamlessly integrated information management framework that can provide logistics information to project stakeholders for their decision making is developed and showed that it can improve time efficiency by about 32% compared to the traditional supply chain management.

TL;DR: In this article, an integrated archetypal system named 4D-GCPSU 2009 is developed to assist construction managers or owners in the aspects of analysis and management for process conflict and structural safety problems during construction.

TL;DR: This paper presents the application of the SOA4BIM Framework in the context of electronic procurement and describes an industrial research case study for validation of the proposed approach in the conception and design phases of building/construction projects.

TL;DR: The elements, processes, and algorithms that comprise a computational and intelligent construction video interpretation method that enabled the interpretation of videos into productivity information, such as working processes, cycle times, and delays, with an accuracy that was comparable to manual analysis.

TL;DR: This study employs the most recent probabilistic climate change projections for the United Kingdom (UKCP09 dataset) and takes into account facility management uncertainties when exploring uncertainties in the prediction of heating energy, cooling energy, and carbon emissions.

TL;DR: The IFC standard can be used to express the information for the construction cost estimating for tendering in China as a whole, but some extensions in the form of proxy elements and property sets are needed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a mixed-integer-linear programming (MILP) problem is formulated to solve the non-linear Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) to simulate the material transportation procedure.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simulation model, using system dynamics principle, is presented to evaluate the sustainability performance of highway infrastructure projects during the construction and operation stage, and the case study is used to explore the solutions for improving those poor sustainability performance areas through policy scenarios.

TL;DR: A comparative study of various vision tracker categories is carried out, to identify which one is most effective in tracking construction resources and the most suitable tracker needed to research effective 3D vision trackers of construction resources.

TL;DR: In this article, a detailed review of previous studies that employed metaheuristics to address problems/issues encountered in the life time of a construction or engineering project is presented, with the objectives to optimize cost and time through the efficient uses of constrained or unconstrained resources.

TL;DR: The performance of the proposed decision-making system shall assist the practitioners in the construction industry to deliver construction projects in a more efficient and effective manner, and thus construction costs could be reduced significantly.