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Capturing As-built Project Information for Facility Management
Complete, accurate, and timely provision of as-built information plays a critical role in the optimal upkeep of a facility. Facility operators/maintainers usually are delivered a constructed...

Progression of Computer Applications in Water Supply and Distribution Systems
Over the last two decades, computer applications in water supply and distribution systems have advanced rapidly from the stand-alone applications in system modeling to the integrated platform...

Use of Expert Systems in Selecting Equilibrium Isotherms of Organic Compound Adsorption on Activated Carbon
An outline of an Expert System (ES) that aids in selecting adsorption isotherms is presented. Such an ES provides an efficient technique for screening the present literature. The ES helps...

A Decision Support System for the Expansion of International Operations of A/E/C Firms
The changing trend of the construction industry will require A/E/C firms to consider expanding operations in the international construction market arena. This paper presents a conceptual...

An Integrated Computer Model for Project Schedule Updating
Current schedule updating techniques rely mainly on field reports to specify completed work. Information provided in these reports are then manually summarized, analyzed, and input to...

Overlaying Digital Images with 3-D CAD to Document as Built Construction
A persistent problem in construction has been documenting changes which occur in the field and preparing as-built drawings. The accuracy and completeness of field measurements is often...

Graphic Visualization for Planning Heavy Lifts
The application of graphical visualization to construction can serve a wide variety of objectives and offers many significant benefits. Heavy lifts are an important component of industrial...

Building Product Model, A First Brick in Computer Integrated Construction
This paper describes the development of a product model as a basis for an information system. This new approach is based on modelling functions of building units rather than physical entities...

Developments to the IRMA Model of AEC Projects
The rapidly advancing fields of information technologies (IT) for AEC and computer-integrated construction (CIC) rely on the ability to represent and exchange information about AEC projects...

Information Modeling and Applications
The objective of this paper is to describe events and findings in the development of a comprehensive information architecture for a building. The information architecture has a goal of...

Transactional Support for Concurrent Finite Element Analysis & Design
The finite element (FE) analysis and design process deals with large amounts of complex engineering data. Although sophisticated techniques have been developed for computer-aided FE analysis,...

Utilizing Mathcad for Hydraulic Design of Stormwater Pump Stations
This paper describes how the software Mathcad was used for hydraulic design of three pump stations (i.e. select pumps and size forcemains). The pump stations are part of a complete stormwater...

SCADA System Controls Combined Sewer Overflow Regulation System to Optimize Wastewater Collection
The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District's Overflow Regulation System (ORS) project uses computer control of a wastewater collection system for the purpose of combined sewage overflow...

Sewers and Computers
The following is a description of a project performed to reduce excessive infiltration and inflow in a municipal sanitary sewer system and to provide the municipality with a computerized...

A Technique to Perform Coupled Consolidation Analysis Using Two Independent Softwares
The consolidation of soils involves two interdependent processes. These are fluid (air and water) flows and the deformation of the soil structure. The two processes tend to be treated...

Towards Practical Machine Learning Techniques
Most research on the application of machine learning to engineering problems have solved artificial problems. While research claimed to have reached results that would improve practice,...

Machine learning Applications for Automated Constructability Reviews
Knowledge acquisition of the project design and construction site conditions is essential for determining construction project complexity. An effective knowledge acquisition method is...

An Artificial Neural Network Approach to Allocating Construction Resources
This paper presents an approach to alleviate the problem of depending upon human expert in allocating construction resources. This approach is using artificial neural networks to capture...

SELECTCRANE: An Expert System for Optimum Crane Selection
Every major project undertaken today requires the services of a crane(s) to ensure that all materials and equipment hoisting and placement are performed in the most efficient manner. The...

Construction Expertise Transfer with Knowledge Based Systems
The experience held by a cost estimating engineer is a valuable asset in every construction company. For a reliable cost estimation at the conceptual stage of a building project, the missing...

 

 

 

 

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