Improving construction safety with virtual-design construction technologies – a review

The construction industry is prone to major safety hazards owing the complex and onsite nature of projects. Hence, researchers have been pursuing concepts, methods, tools using advancing technologies improve management. Subsequently, rapid digitization work practices providing opportunities safety. Research has revealed that management can benefit from applications virtual design (VDC), such as building information modeling (BIM), reality (VR), augmented (AR), geographic systems (GIS), gaming technology. This study comprehensively reviews 191 research articles, published between 2010 2019, focusing on an overview implementation application VDC for improving objective this review critically collect analyze present a holistic view features functions impact jobsite improvement in industry. showed substantially Emerging digital technologies, BIM, VR, AR, GIS, transform traditional document-oriented procedures into digitalized allowing managers visualize analysis sites virtually devise proactive measures effective trainings. also highlights challenges gaps regarding these are currently impeding their widespread use