A BIM-Enabled Dashboard System for Construction Project Monitoring and Control
Publication: Construction Research Congress 2022
ABSTRACT
Typical construction project monitoring and control primarily depends upon paper-based documentation, which is prone to mistakes and cannot organize and retrieve relevant data efficiently. Building information modeling (BIM) is a modern concept that can be used for enhancing the efficacy of information management in the project monitoring and control process. This paper proposes a computerized system that connects the BIM models of a construction project and a dashboard for reporting the overall project progress, the progress payments for contractors, and the work progress of each project section through 3D models. The conventional project monitoring and control process was examined and analyzed. The findings were transformed to the structure of a BIM-based construction project monitoring and control process, which was then used to establish the system architecture of the proposed system. The system adopts Autodesk Revit for authoring BIM models, Microsoft EXCEL for storing data, Dynamo for linking Autodesk Revit and EXCEL, and Unity for creating a BIM-enabled dashboard system. The system was applied to an actual building project to illustrate its efficiency and practicality.
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