ABSTRACT: With the growth of building information modeling (BIM) approaches to facility design, architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry has been shifting to the use of three-dimensional (3D) virtual facility mockups during design. Studies have shown that 3D models when displayed in an immersive projection display environment allow users to interact with the virtual environme...

Building Information Modeling (BIM) has rapidly grown from merely being a three-dimensional (3D) model of a facility to serving as “a shared knowledge resource for information about a facility, forming a reliable basis for decisions during its life cycle from inception onward” [1]. BIM with three primary spatial dimensions (width, height, and depth) becomes 4D BIM when time (construction schedu...

Feed intake is the single most critical factor of dairy production, and performance of dairy cattle can be enhanced or hindered by environmental factors that affect it. These environmental factors can by divided into physical and climatic conditions. On modern dairies, the physical factors may be of more concern. Modern facilities provide the cow with protection from the natural elements. Howev...

Construction industry involves a multitude of stakeholders who perform their project-centric work from various dispersed locations. This involvement of numerous stakeholders, which is common in the construction industry compared to the other industries, has led to fragmentation of the design process. The limitations and complexities resulting from this fragmentation can be overcome by proper de...

The recognition that knowledge is one of an enterprise’s most important assets, decisively influencing its competitiveness, has attracted interest in comprehensive approaches to the basis activities of Knowledge Management (KM) and corporate memories. During the design, construction and operation of any facility knowledge is gained and lessons are learned. Over time, organisations involved in t...

The field of building design is complex, and the successful interplay between iterative and interdependent processes, roles and actions can be seen as a foundation of developing good architectural design solutions and building projects. Over the years, the development of ICTM (Informationand Communication Technologies Management) has led to several changes in the AECFM (Architecture,Engineering...

Advances in sensor and tagging systems provide a way to capture the as-built history of a construction project to be utilized during facilities management. Recent developments in generating 3D environments using laser scanning technologies, and in acquiring quality information about built environments using embedded and other advanced sensors create an opportunity to explore the feasibility of ...