Common data environments in construction: state-of-the-art and challenges for practical implementation

K Jaskula, D Kifokeris, E Papadonikolaki… - Construction …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Information management workflow in building information modelling (BIM)-based
collaboration is based on using a common data environment (CDE). The basic premise of a …

Integrating Digital Twins with BIM for Enhanced Building Control Strategies: A Systematic Literature Review Focusing on Daylight and Artificial Lighting Systems

M Hauer, S Hammes, P Zech, D Geisler-Moroder… - Buildings, 2024 - mdpi.com
In the architecture, engineering, and construction industries, the integration of Building
Information Modeling (BIM) has become instrumental in shaping the design and …

Graph-based inter-domain consistency maintenance for BIM models

Z Wang, B Ouyang, R Sacks - Automation in Construction, 2023 - Elsevier
Even with modern BIM software, design collaboration across disciplines for building
construction remains sequential and siloed. Cloud-based BIM (CBIM) proposes an …

A Framework for Generic Semantic Enrichment of BIM Models

Z Wang, R Sacks, B Ouyang, H Ying… - Journal of Computing in …, 2024 - ascelibrary.org
The design intent and many meaningful semantics in building information modeling (BIM)
models are often implicit, and some explicit semantics are lost during model exchanges. The …

[HTML][HTML] Version control for asynchronous BIM collaboration: Model merging through graph analysis and transformation

S Esser, S Vilgertshofer, A Borrmann - Automation in Construction, 2023 - Elsevier
The design process in construction projects is iterative and multi-disciplinary in nature. In
today's industry practice, several discipline experts concurrently author multiple versions …

CBIM: A graph-based approach to enhance interoperability using semantic enrichment

Z Wang, H Ying, R Sacks, A Borrmann - arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.11672, 2023 - arxiv.org
Interoperability remains a challenge in the construction industry. In this study, we propose a
semantic enrichment approach to construct BIM knowledge graphs from pure building object …

[HTML][HTML] Automated generative design and prefabrication of precast buildings using integrated BIM and graph convolutional neural network

K Li, VJL Gan, M Li, MY Gao, RLK Tiong… - Developments in the Built …, 2024 - Elsevier
Precast construction is a productivity-improving technology in the architectural, engineering,
and construction industry that improves construction efficiency by combining factory-based …

A Version Control System for Point Clouds

CJ Ogayar-Anguita, A López-Ruiz… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a novel version control system for point clouds, which allows the
complete editing history of a dataset to be stored. For each intermediate version, this system …

CBIM: object-level cloud collaboration platform for supporting across-domain asynchronous design

Z Wang, B Ouyang, R Sacks - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.03854, 2023 - arxiv.org
The conventional approach of designing BIM projects requires packaging of building
information as files to exchange designs. This study develops a series of components to …

[PDF][PDF] Enhancing design coordination across disciplines through incremental model updates and Inter-discipline Conjunction Graphs

S Esser, A Borrmann - … of the 20th International Conference on …, 2024 - mediatum.ub.tum.de
Abstract Model-based collaboration is well-established to exchange design information in
the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) sector. Even though various tools …