Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) seeks to improve project outcomes through a collaborative approach of aligning the incentives and goals of the project team through shared risk and reward, early involvement of all parties, and a multi-party agreement. The coupling of Building Information Modeling (BIM) with IPD enables a level of collaboration that not only improves efficiency and reduces erro...

The increasingly urbanized world together with modernization and industrialization trends has led to the explosive growth of city information. Cities can be considered as data factories that daily produce a huge amount of data from different sources such as people, infrastructure, machines, events, sensors, and smart devices. In the context of Smart City, built environments play an important ro...

Building Information Modelling (BIM) seeks to integrate information and business processes throughout the entire building life cycle. This technology is able to generate 3D models that semantically represent facility information dynamically over the life cycle of a building, but is limited when it comes to meeting the needs arising from the operation and management of facility services. There i...

Boundary spanning systemic innovations such as building information modeling (BIM) are difficult to implement. Literature suggests that vertical integration facilitates the implementation of systemic innovations. This study examines the role of vertical integration in the implementation of BIM as an example of a systemic innovation. It analyzes and compares two opposite case studies from the Fi...

The integration of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Geographic Information System (GIS) has been identified as a promising but challenging topic to transform information towards the generation of knowledge and intelligence. Achievement of integrating these two concepts and enabling technologies will have a significant impact on solving problems in the civil, building and infrastructure s...

Estimating in construction education has remained relatively unchanged despite continual technological advances. Currently, students conduct time consuming quantifications and take-offs from construction documents. This traditional estimating process is disconnected from the physical building leading to greater differences between estimated and actual construction costs. To remedy this conditio...

Title of Document: RFID SENSOR-DRIVEN STRUCTURAL CONDITION MONITORING IN INTEGRATED BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING ENVIRONMENT Linjia Bai, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Directed By: Yunfeng Zhang, Associate Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Steel structures are very popular structural forms for both buildings and bridges. Under extreme loading such as strong earthquakes or...

In recent ten years, Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been proposed and applied in the industry of architecture. For the high efficiency and visualization, BIM and correlative technologies are welcomed by architects, engineers, builders and owners, thus the technologies on modeling for design has been widely researched. However, little attention is given to simulation while simulation is...

A Building Information Model (BIM) is at risk of being ‘blind and deaf’ if its contained information cannot be synchronized with ongoing building processes in a real-time manner. Previous studies have attempted to explore solutions to the problem, with a view to making BIM a more useful decision-support system. However, an integrated conceptual framework summarizing these studies and structurin...