Exploring Virtual Reality in Construction, Visualization and Building Performance Analysis

Mustafa Al-Adhami, Ling Ma, Song Wu

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Abstract

In the past two decades, the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry has investigated different approaches to improve communication among project parties, including Virtual reality (VR) however these approaches have not been widely adopted by the industry. Today, the tremendous advancements in technologies and computer hardware have potentially improved the current approaches and enabled a significant enhancement of user experience of Virtual reality (VR) devices. Based on that the researchers have conducted a review to investigate the global VR applications research in (AEC) community in 2015-2017 to understand the status and the trend of immersive virtual reality (IVR) research in the world using these affordable devices. This paper also presents a result of an experiment to integrate three different types of AEC digital modeling data and proposed workflows for IVR applications in construction, visualization and
building performance analysis. The experiment deals with construction simulation, rapid generation of the VR scene for existing building and airflow visualization. Several workflows investigated game engine and VR tools have been used.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2018 Proceedings of the 35th ISARC, Berlin, Germany
Pages960-967
Number of pages8
Publication statusPublished - 1 Aug 2018
Event35th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction and International AEC/FM Hackathon: The Future of Building Things - Berlin, Germany
Duration: 20 Jul 201825 Jul 2018
Conference number: 35
https://isarc2018.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ (Link to Conference Website)

Conference

Conference35th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction and International AEC/FM Hackathon: The Future of Building Things
Abbreviated titleISARC 2018
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityBerlin
Period20/07/1825/07/18
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