The construction industry is multidisciplinary in nature and various operations are executed at the same time. One of the major resources for executing construction operations is the human workforce. Management of this workforce with effective safety provisions is a prime factor for reducing accidents on construction sites. Nowadays, technologies such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) offer the potential to manage safety on-site with their automatic safety checking capability. BIM is a model-based smart nD platform that offers tools for architecture, engineering, and construction proficients to plan, design, and manage construction activities more efficiently. Despite its growing use globally, BIM has not been adopted sufficiently in the Indian construction industry. This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of the adoption of BIM in the global construction and the Indian construction industry. It also reviews the adoption of BIM for safety in the global and Indian construction industry. The bibliometric analysis is carried out in two phases, at first it reviews the adoption of BIM globally, and limits the findings to cover BIM adoption in the Indian construction industry. Secondly, it reviews the adoption of BIM for safety in global construction and limits the findings to cover BIM adoption for safety in India. Various complementary tools such as VOSviewer, iMapbuilder have been used for data analysis. The research highlights the need for BIM in India particularly for safety on construction sites.
Construction industry is highly exposed to accidents than other industries. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of the construction industry, more than one task is required to be performed at the same time. If safety planning is improper, it may lead to serious accidents on-site, directly affecting overall productivity. Recent technologies such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) have the potential to manage safety on the construction site. This study deals with the status check of the awareness of BIM in Indian construction along with benefits, barriers faced in Indian construction. This study also presents the benefits that BIM implementation can bring for safety management. In this study, a questionnaire was designed to ascertain the level of awareness of BIM in the Indian construction industry. The questionnaire was distributed to construction professionals from all over India. A total of 171 valid responses were received from all the corners of India. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences analysis (SPSS) has been used for data analysis. The survey concludes that the Indian construction sector needs to work on the three main aspects that include awareness of BIM and its benefits for organizations, accumulation of BIM in the tertiary education system, and delivering corporate training in construction organizations for a successful realization of benefits by the implementation of BIM.
Construction plays an integral part in the social and economic development of countries worldwide. Construction site safety is a crucial concern in both developed and developing countries. Because the preponderance of safety practices is mitigation-oriented rather than prevention-oriented, the construction industry has poor safety and health conditions. Falls are the primary cause of accidents involving roof and ladder falls on site. With the ability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based techniques, the safety of ladders can be effectively managed, and the rate of accidents can be reduced. This study presents the AI-driven safety checking for a ladder in the pre-use stage. The checks are performed in Python programming language and various libraries such as math, Numpy, and Opencv. The AI-driven safety checking can decide for ‘fitness for the use of the ladder in terms of its structural rigidity before use. Compared to conventional safety practice, this process is less time-consuming, an inspection can be done throughout the project lifecycle, data can be stored and shared virtually, and needless to say, the ladder-related hazards can be reduced.
Concrete is an essential component of every civil engineering project. Advanced concrete is a concrete that has been adapted to meet the needs and specifications of the building construction. The main objective of this paper is to study the advanced concrete and performance comparison of the concrete composites for sustainable construction. As traditional concrete cannot be used in all types of construction, this study presents certain advance concrete composites along with its properties in order to help the contractors and engineers in the selection of the most suitable composite as per the required construction.
Traditional construction project development processes have drastically evolved in the last two decades. The use of ICT-based digital systems insinuates that the industry has steadily progressed towards a digitized future. However, the future would witness incrementally unstructured information generated, shared, manipulated, stored, and archived on diverse digital media platforms. The pillars on which construction projects currently stand comprise visualization, integration, communication, and intelligence. A typical construction project creates knowledge through pre-construction, execution and post-construction phases. Bringing all the four pillars together and deriving valuable information from the enormous data that gets generated throughout the life cycle of the project entails attention. Industry 4.0 demands paradigm shift from conventional practices that must take place on many scales including technology, organization, policies concerning construction site safety management conservative practices. The issue of data generation, tapping and data management is central. This research addresses the issue of construction site safety data, its classification, codification capability and information modelling. Systematic adoption of Industry 4.0 principles forconstruction site safety management would improve the existing platforms adapted to interpret large volumes and varieties of data, manage, and especially connect them to the existing construction enterprise platforms, furnishing integration of information, processes, knowledge, and stakeholders.
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