Technology Used in Construction

DRONE

A drone is made from diverse light composite materials in order to increase manoeuvrability
while flying and reduce weight. It can be equipped with an assortment of extra equipment,
including cameras, GPS guided missiles, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), navigation
systems, sensors, and so on. Drone is use in site for surveying. We can utilize drones to quickly
overview our job site and build maps. Rather than utilizing human resources, heavy machinery
& expensive surveying tools, drone produce complex data, so we can get the job done in half
the time & money, with more prominent accuracy. These small crafts are effortlessly piloted
by remote and can transmit quickly the information they are gathering to a live feed and SD
data storage instantaneously. This makes the task of creating exceptionally precise maps and
providing important information to various companies much simpler. Information merely
acquire can be uploaded right away to a server, where it can be gotten to by individuals all over
the globe who are allow authorization. Drones can reach high-risk areas and tightly-squeezed
in locations that are quite a bit harder to reach with a human crew. Besides that, drone is able
to keeping the project on-track and also on-budget. By identifying the parts of the project that
are going off-track, having the ability to avoid any causalities, thoroughly observing our job
sites; we will be much way better prepared to expel any increments to project time and cost.
Using drones allows you to have more real-time point by point control over the project, so you
can keep track of the progress outwardly, and achieve closure at perhaps a faster time then
already assessed.

Drones in construction can improve the projects on site. One of the advantages using
drone technology on site is to prevent costly mistake. The high-resolution images captured by
a drone are then turned into precise 2D orthophotos and 3D models, creating a wealthy digital
representation of our jobsite. Then, drone data platforms like 3DR Site Scan make it easy to
overlay design files onto drone maps, enabling to pinpoint constructability challenges in pre-
construction spot mistakes, and measure progress amid construction. Using drone also can
improve safety of workers at site. The leading cause of private sector labourer fatalities on the
construction site is falls, speaking to about 39% of all deaths. Drones can be utilized to keep
workers’ feet planted immovably on the ground when they might otherwise need to climb to
take manual measurements or engage in other activities that can be supplanted with a drone.
The leading cause of private sector worker fatalities on the construction site is falls,
representing nearly 39% of all deaths. Drones can be used to keep workers’ feet planted firmly
on the ground when they might otherwise have to climb to take manual measurements or
engage in other activities that can be replaced with a drone.

https://www.dronethusiast.com/7-ways-you-could-use-a-drone-in-construction-projects/

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BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM)

BIM could be a collaborative device utilized by architectural, engineering and construction

(AEC) industries based on a number of software solutions. It may be a technology and a process
to oversee construction projects. BIM could be a set of technology developments and processes
that has changed the way infrastructure is designed, analyzed, constructed and managed. BIM
can upgrade and improve planning process, plan and construction of projects. BIM applications
in construction projects bring numerous benefits to construction players such as improving
communication between construction players and facilitating quicker design decision. In
addition, one of the BIM highlights is ease of use related to its devices; thus, the use of BIM
can diminish time spent in design as well as diminish cost and duration of construction. BIM
can be applied to all construction project stages, which are pre-construction stage, construction
stage and post-construction stage. Table below shows the BIM applications in a construction
project.

Phase Stage Uses of BIM

- Enhances accuracy of existing conditions

Existing conditions modelling and documentations.

- Identifies schedule sequencing or phasing

Planning issues.
Pre-construction

- Encourages way better communication

and faster design decision.
Design - Perform clash discovery and clash
analysis.
- Increases design adequacy.
- Empowers project manager and contractor
to see construction work sequence,
Scheduling equipment, materials and track progress
against coordination and timelines
established
 - Enables era of take offs, counts and
Estimate measurements specifically from a 3-
Dimensional (3D) project model
- Diminishes costs of utility request and
Site Analysis devastation.

- Enables exhibit of construction process,

counting access and exit roads, traffic
Construction

flows, site materials and machineries.

- Provides superior tracking of cost control
Construction
and cash flow.
- Enables tracking of work in genuine time,
faster flow of resources and way better site
management.
- Keeps track of built resource.
Post-construction

- Manages facilities proactively.

Operation / facilities - Enables planned maintenance and
management provides review of maintenance history

The benefits of executing BIM in construction projects can be seen in each construction stage.
Firstly, BIM gives support to design, scheduling, and budgeting of built assets. BIM gives a
platform to assist architects initiate the method of developmental design. The speed of design
can be expanded when using the database provided by BIM tools as less communication with
engineers is required. A visualization of the construction process through a 4D model
incredibly enhances understanding of processes and makes a difference to recognize
construction issues as well as possible problems within the building assets process. The 4D
BIM models allow exhibit of how a construction project would influence traffic flows, access
and exit roads, public transport and capacity of materials on site as well as, scheduling of
machineries and personnel. BIM gives an compelling way to improve design and
documentation quality altogether. BIM saves 10% of contract value through clash detection.
BIM helps to attain 3% of cost estimation accuracy. BIM diminishes drawing coordination
issues and conflict mistakes. BIM reduces design conflict issues by integrating all key systems
into the model. Design BIM systems can identify internal conflicts; model viewing systems
can identify and highlight conflicts between models and other information imported into the
viewer.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256605769_Building_Information_Modeling_BIM_Applic
ation_in_Malaysian_Construction_Industry

https://theconstructor.org/construction/building-information-modeling/13614/