TY - JOUR
T1 - BIM-based immersive Virtual Reality for construction workspace planning
T2 - A safety-oriented approach
AU - Getuli, Vito
AU - Capone, Pietro
AU - Bruttini, Alessandro
AU - Isaac, Shabtai
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge the INAIL - National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work - (Italy) for funding this research and CNR -National Research Council- for providing the case studies.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2020/6/1
Y1 - 2020/6/1
N2 - Effective workspace planning is known to play a crucial role in site planning and construction activity scheduling. This research seeks to enhance the usual manual workspace planning process by simulating a construction activity using both immersive Virtual Reality and Building Information Modeling technologies. Workspace planning is improved by eliciting experienced workers' knowledge and integrating it with construction managers' knowledge. The workers' knowledge is elicited both directly, by asking them for feedback during the activity simulation, and indirectly, by collecting and analysing position tracking data. The application of this approach in a real case study demonstrates its beneficial impact in terms of the sharing of planning and safety-related information between project partners and its formal representation in a Health and Safety Plan.
AB - Effective workspace planning is known to play a crucial role in site planning and construction activity scheduling. This research seeks to enhance the usual manual workspace planning process by simulating a construction activity using both immersive Virtual Reality and Building Information Modeling technologies. Workspace planning is improved by eliciting experienced workers' knowledge and integrating it with construction managers' knowledge. The workers' knowledge is elicited both directly, by asking them for feedback during the activity simulation, and indirectly, by collecting and analysing position tracking data. The application of this approach in a real case study demonstrates its beneficial impact in terms of the sharing of planning and safety-related information between project partners and its formal representation in a Health and Safety Plan.
KW - BIM
KW - Computational design
KW - Game technology
KW - Safety management
KW - Virtual Reality
KW - Virtual ergonomics
KW - Workspace planning
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U2 - 10.1016/j.autcon.2020.103160
DO - 10.1016/j.autcon.2020.103160
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85081906819
VL - 114
JO - Automation in Construction
JF - Automation in Construction
SN - 0926-5805
M1 - 103160
ER -