BIM and Advanced Computer-Based Tools for the Design and Construction of Underground Structures and Tunnels

Panagiotis Kontothanasis, Vicky Krommyda and Nikolaos Roussos

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Abstract: Technology and digitalization are continuously producing changes in sectors and fields of human activities. Infrastructure industry needs this support in various and extensive ways, since it affects involved parties and society overall. Even though many individual branches have been transformed, design and construction show some kind of reluctance on encouraging and implementing comprehensive digitalization. A major reason is the significantly high complexity of infrastructure projects and the extended chains of work procedures and activities that are produced. All those are applying through the whole time scale of buildings' existence. Considering that safety and durability remain always the ultimate goal, every new method and concept shall be exhaustively tested, in order to prove its value and efficiency. The current chapter aims to define and prove technology contribution all along the infrastructure sector, concentrating in tunnels and underground structures. Since evolution is proceeding in accelerated rates, future perspectives are also analyzed to provide broader visions and set indicative standpoints for potential and incentives.

Keywords: building information modeling; tunnel construction; design tools; automatism; clash detection; decision-making; digitalization; disciplines; IFC; interoperability; tunnel monitoring; operation and maintenance; sustainability; semantics; simulation; virtual construction; artificial intelligence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.88315

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