TY - GEN
T1 - Intelligent BIM-based spatial conflict simulators
T2 - 39th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, ISARC 2022
AU - Messi, L.
AU - De Soto, B. García
AU - Carbonari, A.
AU - Naticchia, B.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research has been partially funded by the Graduate and Postdoctoral Programs at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), the Ph.D. Program at the Polytechnic University of Marche (UNIVPM), and the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research PRIN 2017 Project entitled "A Distributed Digital Collaboration Framework for Small and Medium-Sized Engineering and Construction Enterprises" (prot. 2017EY3ESB).
Funding Information:
This research has been partially funded by the Graduate and Postdoctoral Programs at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), the Ph.D. Program at the Polytechnic University of Marche (UNIVPM), and the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research PRIN 2017 Project entitled “A Distributed Digital Collaboration Framework for Small and Medium-Sized Engineering and Construction Enterprises” (prot. 2017EY3ESB).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 International Association on Automation and Robotics in Construction.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In construction projects, the space required for executing each activity is unanimously recognized as a limited but renewable resource, like workers, equipment, and materials. Overloading a given resource space, as demonstrated by statistics, leads to efficiency losses and safety threats. Despite the valuable contributions provided by academics and the construction software industry, a definitive tool for managing and resolving spatial issues is not available yet. In fact, current approaches, generally based on geometric intersection tests between main workspaces in their initial static position, do not account for not-purely-geometric spatial issues (e.g., struck-by hazards, electrical hazards, etc.) and overestimate conflicts affected by unlikely surrounding conditions. In order to cover these gaps, a workspace management framework integrated into the preparation of the construction schedule is proposed and tested by developing a spatial conflict simulator (i.e., "Enhanced" approach). The simulator implemented using the serious gaming environment Unity3DTM was compared with Synchro Pro (i.e., "Benchmark" approach). Results show a better performance of the "Enhanced" approach, able to extend the range of detected spatial conflicts thanks to physics simulations, and filter unlikely spatial conflicts based on Bayesian inference's results.
AB - In construction projects, the space required for executing each activity is unanimously recognized as a limited but renewable resource, like workers, equipment, and materials. Overloading a given resource space, as demonstrated by statistics, leads to efficiency losses and safety threats. Despite the valuable contributions provided by academics and the construction software industry, a definitive tool for managing and resolving spatial issues is not available yet. In fact, current approaches, generally based on geometric intersection tests between main workspaces in their initial static position, do not account for not-purely-geometric spatial issues (e.g., struck-by hazards, electrical hazards, etc.) and overestimate conflicts affected by unlikely surrounding conditions. In order to cover these gaps, a workspace management framework integrated into the preparation of the construction schedule is proposed and tested by developing a spatial conflict simulator (i.e., "Enhanced" approach). The simulator implemented using the serious gaming environment Unity3DTM was compared with Synchro Pro (i.e., "Benchmark" approach). Results show a better performance of the "Enhanced" approach, able to extend the range of detected spatial conflicts thanks to physics simulations, and filter unlikely spatial conflicts based on Bayesian inference's results.
KW - 4D tool
KW - BIM
KW - Construction Management
KW - Game Engine
KW - Spatial Conflicts
KW - Workspace Scheduling
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85137086436
T3 - Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction
SP - 550
EP - 557
BT - Proceedings of the 39th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, ISARC 2022
PB - International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC)
Y2 - 13 July 2022 through 15 July 2022
ER -