Abstract: The sounds of work activities and equipment operations at a construction site provide critical information regarding construction progress, task performance, and safety issues. The construction industry, however, has not ...

Abstract: Postdisaster housing reconstruction (PDHR) is a highly complex process because of the large number of recovery projects for affected communities and the shortage of resources after a disastrous event. PDHR also needs a ...

Abstract: One main gap in the automation of construction quantity takeoff (QTO) is the lack of a systematic method to address building information models (BIMs) created from different BIM authoring tools and workflows. Even the ...

Abstract: Postdisaster reconstruction of transportation infrastructures generally entails complex and multiobjective planning and implementation options under uncertainty because of a large number of underlying subjective and objective ...

Abstract: Postdisaster housing reconstruction (PDHR) requires robust, efficient planning, and coordination among dispersed prefabrication facilities and jobsites to maximize prefabrication benefits. Manual construction methods and ...

Abstract: Widespread destruction from large-scale disasters results in lengthy and costly recovery of damaged infrastructure and communities, with societal and economic impacts persisting many years after a hazard event. Robust and ...

Abstract: As a subset standard for domain-specific building information modeling (BIM) data exchanges, a model view definition (MVD) has been developed under the Industry Foundation Class (IFC) schema. When a MVD is constructed, ...