Remote Indoor Construction Progress Monitoring Using Extended Reality

Ahmed Khairadeen Ali, One Jae Lee, Doyeop Lee and Chansik Park
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Ahmed Khairadeen Ali: School of Architecture and Building Science, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Korea
One Jae Lee: Haenglim Architecture and Engineering Company, Seoul 05854, Korea
Doyeop Lee: School of Architecture and Building Science, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Korea
Chansik Park: School of Architecture and Building Science, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Korea

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 4, 1-23

Abstract: Construction Progress monitoring noticed recent expansions by adopting vision and laser technologies. However, inspectors need to personally visit the job-site or wait for a time gap to process data captured from the construction site to use for inspection. Recent inspection methods lacks automation and real-time data exchange, therefore, it needs inspection manpower for each job-site, the health risk of physical interaction between workers and inspector, loss of energy, data loss, and time consumption. To address this issue, a near real-time construction work inspection system called iVR is proposed; this system integrates 3D scanning, extended reality, and visual programming to visualize interactive onsite inspection for indoor activities and provide numeric data. The iVR comprises five modules: iVR-location finder (finding laser scanner located in the construction site) iVR-scan (capture point cloud data of job-site indoor activity), iVR-prepare (processes and convert 3D scan data into a 3D model), iVR-inspect (conduct immersive visual reality inspection in construction office), and iVR-feedback (visualize inspection feedback from job-site using augmented reality). An experimental lab test is conducted to verify the applicability of iVR process; it successfully exchanges required information between construction job-site and office in a specific time. This system is expected to assist Engineers and workers in quality assessment, progress assessments, and decision-making which can realize a productive and practical communication platform, unlike conventional monitoring or data capturing, processing, and storage methods, which involve storage, compatibility and time-consumption issues.

Keywords: virtual reality; point cloud data; building information modeling; work inspection; progress monitoring; quality assurance inspection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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