International Conference on Construction and Real Estate Management 2016
Design for Safety (DFS) and Building Information Modeling (BIM): A Review
Publication: ICCREM 2016: BIM Application and Off-Site Construction
ABSTRACT
Safety management is a major concern in construction industry worldwide; hence, researchers are pursuing proper concepts equipped with advanced technologies to improve safety management. By studying the publications in this field, trends in safety management in construction industry can be obtained: (1) the elimination and mitigation of the hazards should start at an earlier stage, which led to the concept of design for safety (DFS) and (2) advanced digital tools have been applied in order to improve safety management, among them building information modeling (BIM) is one of the most promising tools. This review surveys state-of-the-art research on DFS and explores BIM application in DFS, discusses the relationship between DFS and BIM practice; findings indicate that BIM has the potential for helping construction industry to achieve DFS. Meanwhile, the findings and results of the review could also be for future reference.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This study has been funded by projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51578144) and the Postgraduates’ Science and Innovation Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. KYLX_0206).
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ICCREM 2016: BIM Application and Off-Site Construction
Pages: 69 - 80
Editors: Yaowu Wang, Ph.D., Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, Mohamed Al-Hussein, Ph.D., Professor, University of Alberta, Geoffrey Q. P. Shen, Ph.D., Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Yimin Zhu, Ph.D., Professor, Louisiana State University
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