Unearthing the Value of Data in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) Industry

A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 817

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Department of Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
Interests: Construction 4.0; digital twins; organizational change; people–process–technology frameworks

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Dear Colleagues,

A construction project can be analogized as a nexus from which various stakeholders connect from planning to decommissioning and form information exchange networks to realize the project. A construction project is built on reams of data generated from various sources throughout the project lifecycle. Thus, it would not be an overstatement to say that a critical element of the future of construction companies and industry is data. With the advancement and emergence of a new generation of information technologies, data and data-driven decisions is becoming a commonly used phrase.

This Special Issue of Buildings on “Unearthing the Value of Data in the AEC Industry” goes beyond theory and offers insights into recent research breakthroughs on practical solutions, in order to turn data into action in the AEC industry. Topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Data integration and hand-off between project phases and among stakeholders;
  • Data standards;
  • Data-driven decision-making strategies;
  • Ontology-based information modeling frameworks and applications;
  • Data lifecycle management;
  • Data governance;
  • Digital twins solutions;
  • Digital thread solutions.

Dr. Hala Nassereddine
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • data integration
  • data lifecycle management
  • data governance
  • digital twins
  • digital thread
  • decision making
  • ontology
  • data standards

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Adapting to an OpenBIM Building Permit Process: A Case Study Using the Example of the City of Vienna
by Harald Urban, Simon Fischer and Christian Schranz
Buildings 2024, 14(4), 1135; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14041135 - 17 Apr 2024
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The adoption of building information modelling (BIM) enables data-driven decision-making for many participants in the construction process. Building authorities are stakeholders that have not yet benefited from data integration using BIM. In many cases, parts of their processes have already improved through digitisation [...] Read more.
The adoption of building information modelling (BIM) enables data-driven decision-making for many participants in the construction process. Building authorities are stakeholders that have not yet benefited from data integration using BIM. In many cases, parts of their processes have already improved through digitisation initiatives. Now they are on the threshold of a major digital transformation enabled by the integration of BIM into their processes. This study examines a building permit process based entirely on BIM, developed at the Vienna Building Authority in Austria. In a series of workshops with all important stakeholders, the current building permit process was captured in detail and transferred to a data-driven, BIM-based process. The study shows that the complete capture and digitisation of the building approval process not only enables the automation of traditional processes such as code compliance checks and neighbourhood hearings but also supports the introduction of innovative sub-processes such as a pre-check of BIM models and augmented reality-based hearings with neighbours (in a pilot phase). The results suggest that the developed process not only significantly increases the efficiency and transparency of building permit procedures, but also represents a decisive step towards integrating the authority into the BIM process of a building. Full article
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