All Outputs (15)

Conceptualizing Digital Twins in Construction Projects as Socio-Technical Systems (2024)
Conference Proceeding

Digital Twin (DT) has been proposed in the construction sector as the evolution of static Building Information Modeling (BIM) by enabling seamless data flow between physical and digital environments. This paper presents an integrated framework that c... Read More about Conceptualizing Digital Twins in Construction Projects as Socio-Technical Systems.

Deploying a Building Information Modelling (BIM)-Based Construction Safety Risk Library for Industry: Lessons Learned and Future Directions (2024)
Journal Article

A continuing need to improve health, safety and wellbeing in construction has led to multiple research projects and technological innovations. One such innovation is the Safety Risk Library: a repository of data that functions in BIM environments to... Read More about Deploying a Building Information Modelling (BIM)-Based Construction Safety Risk Library for Industry: Lessons Learned and Future Directions.

A Data-Driven Approach for Deploying Safety Policies for Schedule Planning in Industrial Construction Projects: A Case Study (2023)
Journal Article

Construction, by the nature of the work, is more accident-prone than other industries despite advancements in improving safety performance. Proactive mitigation and assessment of the safety performance of construction projects remain challenging due... Read More about A Data-Driven Approach for Deploying Safety Policies for Schedule Planning in Industrial Construction Projects: A Case Study.

A BIM-based framework for designing sustainable structures through the reuse of precast concrete components (2023)
Conference Proceeding

The widespread use of concrete within the global construction sector is primarily attributed to its inherent qualities of resilience, versatility, longevity, and facilitation of economic growth. Nevertheless, it is noteworthy that this popular materi... Read More about A BIM-based framework for designing sustainable structures through the reuse of precast concrete components.

BIM-based building circularity assessment: conceptual framework (2023)
Conference Proceeding

The construction sector contributes substantially to the consumption of raw materials and the production of waste. Traditional building design strategies are based on an unsustainable economic linear model. Transition to the circular economy (CE) par... Read More about BIM-based building circularity assessment: conceptual framework.

A BIM-based conceptual framework for embodied carbon assessment (2023)
Conference Proceeding

Understanding the integration of BIM as an enabling factor in embodied carbon (EC) assessment is becoming exponentially vital as the global climate crisis accelerates. This paper introduces a BIM-based conceptual framework to quantify the EC of a bui... Read More about A BIM-based conceptual framework for embodied carbon assessment.

Assessing Embodied Carbon in Structural Models: A Building Information Modelling-Based Approach (2023)
Journal Article

The construction industry’s recognition of the importance of embodied carbon (EC) drives the need for streamlined early-stage EC assessment. The adoption of building information modelling (BIM) allows for integrating EC assessment into current workfl... Read More about Assessing Embodied Carbon in Structural Models: A Building Information Modelling-Based Approach.

Dataset of characterised construction safety risks and related treatments (2023)
Journal Article

The Safety Risk Library is a structured database that integrates knowledge drawn from multiple sources to address the problem of information disaggregation in the construction industry. This knowledge base maps construction safety risk scenarios to t... Read More about Dataset of characterised construction safety risks and related treatments.

Developing Industry 4.0 applications (2023)
Book Chapter

The design and development of Industry 4.0 applications requires focused research work and close collaboration with the industry. Such an approach requires a balance between technical work and social interactions with industry partners: a social cons... Read More about Developing Industry 4.0 applications.

Framework for BIM-Based Simulation of Construction Operations Implemented in a Game Engine (2022)
Journal Article

Construction simulation has been widely used in academia for research purposes. However, it has been neglected by the industry for various reasons, including the amount of data, skills, effort, and time required to develop complex simulation models,... Read More about Framework for BIM-Based Simulation of Construction Operations Implemented in a Game Engine.

BIM-based construction safety risk library (2022)
Journal Article

This paper presents a digital tool and Safety Risk library to assist designers in their health and safety work in BIM digital environments. Addressing an industry need for improved knowledge sharing and collaboration, the BIM Safety Risk library tool... Read More about BIM-based construction safety risk library.

Digital Health and Safety Risk Library Use Case (2021)
Report

This report presents the work undertaken during the Phase 2 –from June 2020 to June 2021 – of the BIM Risk Library Use Case of the Discovering Safety programme. Continuing with the work reported in the BIM Risk Library Final Report (Phase 1), the new... Read More about Digital Health and Safety Risk Library Use Case.

A Knowledge-Based Model for Constructability Assessment of Buildings Design Using BIM (2020)
Conference Proceeding

Economic and time efficiency can be attained in the construction industry by applying the principles of constructability. Existing empirical studies demonstrate that incorporating these principles into initial stages of design maximise outcomes for a... Read More about A Knowledge-Based Model for Constructability Assessment of Buildings Design Using BIM.

Discrete-Event Simulation and Building Information Modelling Based Animation of Construction Activities (2020)
Conference Proceeding

Discrete-event simulation (DES) technology has been widely used in the construction context, particularly in the academic community for research purposes. However, it has been neglected by industry for various reasons, including the usual way in whic... Read More about Discrete-Event Simulation and Building Information Modelling Based Animation of Construction Activities.

A method for discrete event simulation and building information modelling integration using a game engine (2018)
Journal Article

Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Discrete Event Simulation (DES) are tools widely used in the context of the construction industry. While BIM is used to represent the physical and functional characteristics of a facility, DES models are used... Read More about A method for discrete event simulation and building information modelling integration using a game engine.