This paper reviews the area of combined discrete event simulation (DES) and virtual reality
(VR) use within industry. While establishing a state of the art for progress in this area, this …

Data to field operations of construction resources (personnel, equipment, materials) is vast,
but the effort of collecting, analyzing, and visualizing is hardly ever taken. One main reason …

Upon publication almost 15 years ago, the first edition almost instantly became a trusted
reference, setting the stage for the coming decade, in which the explosion in research and …

Robots are expected to play an important role in future construction work. However, they are
not yet widely adopted by the industry because it is difficult and expensive to program robots …

Purpose In recent years, deep learning and extended reality (XR) technologies have gained
popularity in the built environment, especially in construction engineering and management …

3D computer visualization has emerged as an advanced problem-solving tool for
engineering education and practice. For example in civil engineering, the integration of …

Construction activities need space on the jobsite for their execution. Workers, equipment,
materials, temporary facilities, and the developing structure share the limited jobsite space …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the critical time window for pro-active
construction accident prevention and response. Large to small organisations throughout the …

Abstract Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) has shown promise of combining human
workers' flexibility and robot assistants' physical abilities to jointly address the uncertainties …

Project teams face ever increasing pressure to deliver projects as quickly as possible. To
meet these demands, contractors are faced with the need to explore various construction …