Life-Cycle Management of Construction Projects Based on Virtual Prototyping Technology

Guo, Hao; Li, Heng; Skitmore, Martin

doi:10.1061/(asce)0742-597x(2010)26:1(41)

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“…Additionally, a more comprehensive carbon footprint assessment tool is needed if we want to accurately predict the total embodied energy (including carbon emitted from embodied energy and building assembly processes) and improve the carbon performance of the project. Thus far, there have been limited attempts at developing an integrated life-cycle analysis (LCA) with BIM to monitor the embodied carbon of a construction project (see for example [32] and [33]). There is a lack of research providing any support for managing construction and demolition waste via BIM technology.…”

Section: Detecting Potential Hazard Black Spotsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The four-dimensional (4D) 'Construction Virtual Prototyping' (CVP) model developed by the authors [31] allows the construction team and project stakeholders to visualize the construction plan, observe the simulated time-lapse representation of corresponding construction sequences and provides for "an effective means for communicating temporal and spatial information on [to] project participants" [32][33][34]. A virtual prototyping technology was also deployed by the CVP team to develop typical construction scenarios in which unsafe or hazardous incidents occurred [35].…”

Section: Carbon Emission Quantification and Site Hazard Identificatiomentioning

confidence: 99%

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Virtual Prototyping for Construction Site Co2 Emissions and Hazard Detection

Wong

Chan

et al. 2014

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

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The need for an efficient means of managing emissions and identifying potential hazard black spots in construction processes effectively and at the lowest cost possible has been highlighted in the construction sector. This study illustrates an integrated 5D model developed for quantifying carbon emissions and simulating the pattern of emissions of construction processes as a whole using virtual prototyping technologies. The predicted construction emissions data for each activity is generated and plotted to visually demonstrate the emission rates alongside the integrated four-dimensional VP framework of the construction project. The model also consists of a pro-active construction management system (PCMS), which assist the project team to detect sources of danger to on-site workers and provide pro-active warnings to them so as to avoid fatal accidents that are often caused by falling from heights and being struck by moving objects. A Hong Kong high-rise housing development project is used to exhibit the application of the carbon emission visualisation and potential accident detection system. This tool aims to encourage construction industry practitioners to become more environmentally conscious and pro-active in carbon mitigation and safety performance.

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Section: Detecting Potential Hazard Black Spotsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Carbon Emission Quantification and Site Hazard Identificatiomentioning

confidence: 99%

Virtual Prototyping for Construction Site Co2 Emissions and Hazard Detection

Wong

Chan

et al. 2014

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

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“…The initial task was to view the building via Google Earth and take into perspective the existing building's environment. (Guo et al 2010). The information is inserted into the template columns and imported into the Onuma system via XML.…”

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Designing a Framework for Exchanging Partial Sets of BIM Information on a Cloud-Based Service

Redmond¹,

West

Hore³

2013

International Journal of 3-D Information Modeling

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This paper reviews the rationale for using a partial data set in Building Information Modeling (BIM) exchanges, influenced by the recognized difficulty of exchanging data at element or object level which depends on the information requiring compatible hardware and software, in order for the data to be read and transferred freely between applications. The solution was not to introduce a new schema in contrast to the industry's existing open exchange model ‘Industry Foundation Classes' which has been in existence since the 1980's, but for the authors to re-engineer an existing Simplified Markup Language ‘BIM XML' into subsets via XML Style Sheet Transition. The language of XML was chosen because Web services, which are developed from XML data representation format and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) communication protocol, are platform neutral, widely accepted and utilized and come with a wide range of useful technologies. Furthermore, they support Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) – the internet platform that enables interoperability between different software programs. The methodology involved developing a full hybrid research model based on mixed methods, ‘quantitative and qualitative', interlaced into two main phases. The first phase comprised of a main survey questionnaire, focus groups, two Delphi questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and a case study. The final phase, ‘product design and testing', used semantic methods and tools, such as Business Process Management Notation. The final case study (a prototype test) successfully itemized the potential of combining three applications asynchronously in real-time. The interoperable capabilities of Web services APIs for exchanging partial sets of BIM data enabled assumptions with a higher amount of detail to be reviewed at the feasibility design stage. Future services will be built upon existing Web Ontology languages such as SPARQL descriptions to be used in conjunction with several web services connecting together on a Cloud platform to produce a knowledge ‘Semantic Web'.

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“…1. The information flow of LCM of construction projects; source: [8] Information flows should embrace the information concerning all the phases shown in Fig. 1.…”

Section: Life Cycle Of a Buildingmentioning

confidence: 99%