A Vision for Construction IT
Visioning is a process that can assist in the development the future generation of ICT for the Malaysian construction industry. In construction IT, stakeholders can produce their relevant project information and post it on an electronic “project information board” (sharing project information, shared conceptual product or process model). This vision is about construction “integration”. In this vision for construction IT the users of this information board need not be tied to their computers and office network for connections and access. Advances in communications technologies allow users to manipulate information in any format, and in any geographical location. This is known as construction “collaboration”.
Visioning is a process that can assist in the development the future generation of ICT for the Malaysian construction industry. In construction IT, stakeholders can produce their relevant project information and post it on an electronic “project information board” (sharing project information, shared conceptual product or process model). This vision is about construction “integration”. In this vision for construction IT the users of this information board need not be tied to their computers and office network for connections and access. Advances in communications technologies allow users to manipulate information in any format, and in any geographical location. This is known as construction “collaboration”.
Construction Collaboration
Construction Collaboration is the ways of the supply chain that can access and manipulate the project information board, irrespective of their geographical location. The key elements of this collaborative environment include of:
• advanced administration tools for distributed personal, team, and project information repositories.
• access to virtual building models and collaborative environments through wireless networked technologies and low cost virtual reality environments.
• appropriate security levels for sharing the information over the inter/intranets.
• process and workflow management tools to support variations in working practices between different projects.
• new generations of ICT tools, which facilitate collaboration and communication with end-user.
Moreover in part of visualisation in conjunction with integrated (model driven) construction systems can be expected to:
• Enable designers, developers, and contractors to use the VR system and virtually test a proposed project before construction actually begins.
• Offer “walk-through” views of the project so that problems can be found and design improvements can be made earlier.
• Provide a free flow of information between CAD systems and other applications work packages, in order to minimise misinterpretation between project participants.
• Facilitate the selection of alternative designs, by allowing different plans to be tested in the same virtual world.
• advanced administration tools for distributed personal, team, and project information repositories.
• access to virtual building models and collaborative environments through wireless networked technologies and low cost virtual reality environments.
• appropriate security levels for sharing the information over the inter/intranets.
• process and workflow management tools to support variations in working practices between different projects.
• new generations of ICT tools, which facilitate collaboration and communication with end-user.
Moreover in part of visualisation in conjunction with integrated (model driven) construction systems can be expected to:
• Enable designers, developers, and contractors to use the VR system and virtually test a proposed project before construction actually begins.
• Offer “walk-through” views of the project so that problems can be found and design improvements can be made earlier.
• Provide a free flow of information between CAD systems and other applications work packages, in order to minimise misinterpretation between project participants.
• Facilitate the selection of alternative designs, by allowing different plans to be tested in the same virtual world.
Divercity
Towards vision of Malaysian construction industry towards ICT divercity system is use. It is use to improve communication and collaboration. It focused on client briefing, design reviews and operations ans constructability. In divercity system, IFC standard will be used to support the system. The IFC standard is a 3D file data. It s as a basis for the Building Information Modelling (BIM), a 3D model of the building project and a source of information shared by all the project participants. Project used IFC standard in order to develop a toolkit for shared virtual briefing and design in the construction industry. This toolkit allows construction companies to conduct client briefing, design reviews, simulate what if scenarios, test constructability of buildings, communicate and co-ordinate design activities between teams.
By having divercity system it allows users to produce designs and simulate them in a virtual environment. The designs are IFC based and can be viewed by al stakeholders within the project team as shown in Figure below:
The Divercity Visual Workspace
Client Briefing
This supports clients and designers during briefing. It provides tools for capturing strategic and spatial requirements and allows experimentation with alternate spatial layouts, in a visual format.
This supports clients and designers during briefing. It provides tools for capturing strategic and spatial requirements and allows experimentation with alternate spatial layouts, in a visual format.
Acoustics Simulation
This application automatically reads CAD drawings (in an IFC format) and allows changes to building materials on-line, in an interactive manner. The user can “listen” to acoustic qualities of the building and change the design to achieve desired noise levels.
Thermal Simulation
This application automatically reads CAD drawings (in an IFC format) and allows changes to building materials on-line, in an interactive manner. The users can simulate the energy consumption of the building or rooms) and select appropriate material for energy efficiency.
Lighting Simulation
This provides a realistic simulation of lighting. The users can change and move objects or lights in the building and see lighting simulation in an interactive manner.
Site Planning
The site planning and analysis application aims to evaluate the space use and safety in the construction site and provide ways to generate enhanced construction site layouts with respect to time and safety criteria.
This application automatically reads CAD drawings (in an IFC format) and allows changes to building materials on-line, in an interactive manner. The user can “listen” to acoustic qualities of the building and change the design to achieve desired noise levels.
Thermal Simulation
This application automatically reads CAD drawings (in an IFC format) and allows changes to building materials on-line, in an interactive manner. The users can simulate the energy consumption of the building or rooms) and select appropriate material for energy efficiency.
Lighting Simulation
This provides a realistic simulation of lighting. The users can change and move objects or lights in the building and see lighting simulation in an interactive manner.
Site Planning
The site planning and analysis application aims to evaluate the space use and safety in the construction site and provide ways to generate enhanced construction site layouts with respect to time and safety criteria.
Visual Product Chronology
The Visual Product Chronology application provides visualisations over the various data and their interdependencies. In these visualisations the "Time" aspect is crucial. The application links the time tags with the appropriate building components and their data. This results in the visualisations of the status of the building and its components at the selected point of time.
Information exchange among the applications is possible IFC standards. Stakeholders in different geographical locations can share an application via a communication layer, titled “e-viper”. For example a client in a city (e.g. Kuala Lumpur) can communicate with the architect in another city (e.g. Sabah). The client and the architect can review the lighting simulation, simultaneously, using e-viper. If the architect changes the lighting locations or design, the client can see the changes in real time. Alternatively, the client can change the lighting design and the architect can immediately see the new requirements. A distribution manager within e-viper controls access rights to the virtual model.
By:
Norhaffizan Bte Mohd Kassim
AP776
2008261156
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