Visualization of Sustainable Construction

The excessive amount of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions in the recent years has caused a major global warming problem. Although historically GHGs have been a natural source of warming in the atmosphere, yet in the past two decade or so, their adversarial effects have been more sensed and reported. Among the sources of these emissions, transportation is responsible for more than 50% of these released emissions. Among all transportation subcategories, construction industry is one of the major producers of these emissions. Despite the main contribution of the construction industry, there has been minimal effort in effective sensing and visualizing of these emissions. Therefore in this paper, we describe a system for simulating and visualizing the GHG emission from construction equipments during the lifetime of an actual construction project. Based on the results of the simulation, the required number of trees to neutralize these emitted GHG is also visualized.