RFID+4D CAD for Progress Management of Structural Steel Works in High-Rise Buildings

An Adaptive Automated Monitoring of Construction Activities using Swarm Nodes

“…While these approaches were capable of identifying discrepancies between as-built and asplanned construction models, further processing of the captured data is required before progress data can be attained. Component based approaches involve the integration of RFID tags with the virtual models, [2,5,6] investigated the integration of passive RFID tags and 4D CAD for supply chain and steel management. A higher level of automation in tracking components was illustrated by [5] using active RFID tags.…”

“…As such construction personnel would typically need to spend significant amount of time learning about and using the technology to gather data in addition to accomplishing their required task. For example, in the use of RFID tags for progress tracking by [1] and [2], construction crew need to manually scan installed tagged steel or precast concrete components in order to record their status. For these approaches to be adopted by the industry, construction workers will need to be motivated to collect and record progress or status data, thus reducing the reliability and access to real-time information.…”

Developing RFID-Based Instruments Maintenance Management in Construction Lab

“…Jaselskis and Anderson (1995) investigated the applications and limitations of RFID technology in the construction industry, and attached read/ write RFID tags to the surfaces of concrete test that were cast from the job site to test lab. This RFID technology has been widely applied in many areas in the construction industries for the following reasons: (1) to provide owners and contractors with information to enhance operation using RFID technology (Jaselskis and 192 Tarek, 2003); (2) to propose a novel concept of " parts and packets unified architecture" in order to handle data or information related to a product carried by product itself by utilizing RFID technology (Yagi et al, 2005); (3) to apply RFID technology as a solution to problems in pipe spools, and identify potential economic benefits from adopting RFID technology in automated tracking ; (4) to apply RFID combined with GIS technology in order to locate precast concrete components with minimal worker input in the storage yard ; (5) to improve the efficiency of tracing tools and tool availability using RFID (Goodrum et al, 2006); (6) to develop mobile construction supply chain system integrated with RFID technology (Wang et al, 2006); (7) to describe a prototype of an advanced tower crane equipped with wireless video control and RFID technology (Lee et al, 2006); (8) to improve tracing of material on construction using materials tagged with RFID tags ; (9) to present strategy and information system to manage the progress control of structural steel works using RFID and 4D CAD (Chin et al, 2008); (10) to enhance precast production management system integrated with RFID application (Yin et al, 2009), and (11) to present a new methodology for managing construction document information using RFID-based semantic contexts (Elghamrawy and Boukamp, 2010). The use of technology to improve delivery process control is not a novel concept.…”

Practical Issues in Application of RFID to Pipeline Construction and its Benefit Analysis

“…RFID technologies have been applied to construction sites to overcome inefficient material and process management. However, many RFID-related studies have focused on building (Chin et al, 2008) or plant construction. The application of RFID tags has been limited in pipeline construction projects where materials are stored and stacked across a large construction site.…”