Construction Research Congress 2020
Toward Automated Virtual Assembly for Prefabricated Construction: Construction Sequencing through Simulated BIM
Publication: Construction Research Congress 2020: Project Management and Controls, Materials, and Contracts
ABSTRACT
To adhere to the stringent time and budget requirements of construction projects, contractors are utilizing prefabricated construction methods to expedite the construction process. Prefabricated construction methods require an adequate schedule and understanding by the contractors and constructors to be successful. The specificity of prefabricated construction often leads to inefficient scheduling and costly rework time. The designer, contractor, and constructors must have a strong understanding of the assembly process to experience the full benefits of the method. At the root of understanding the assembly process is visualizing how the process is intended to be performed. Currently, a virtual construction model is used to explain and better visualize the construction process. However, creating a virtual construction model is currently time consuming and requires experienced personnel. The proposed simulation of the virtual assembly will increase the automation of virtual construction modeling by implementing the data available in a building information modeling (BIM) model. This paper presents various factors [i.e., formalization of construction sequence based on the level of development (LOD)] that needs to be addressed for the development of automated virtual assembly. Two case studies are presented to demonstrate these factors.
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This work was partially funded under Versatile Test Reactor Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) by Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (BEA), the Management and Operating Contractor of Idaho National Laboratory (INL) under Contract Number DE-AC07-05ID14517 with DOE. The United States Government has a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish and reproduce the published form of this work and allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. Any opinions, findings, conclusions and/or recommendations expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not reflect the views of the entities above.
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Construction Research Congress 2020: Project Management and Controls, Materials, and Contracts
Pages: 802 - 811
Editors: David Grau, Ph.D., Arizona State University, Pingbo Tang, Ph.D., Arizona State University, and Mounir El Asmar, Ph.D., Arizona State University
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8288-9
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