Automated Construction Progress Monitoring of Prefabricated Concrete Structures using Building Information Modeling and Internet of Things

Abstract

The construction industry in India is facing various issues pertaining to low productivity, inefficient management at construction sites, high construction safety risk and lack of information on the status of project. With the development of modern tools and technologies prefabricated construction is becoming more prevalent in the building industry. However, there are many limitations in the actual manufacturing process such as storage, quality checks, installation of the prefabricated components and its status which is due to the lack of real-time information collection and sharing. In order to speed up the construction process and better management and monitoring of the project, this research proposes the framework for integration of Internet of Things (IoT) and Building Information Modeling (BIM). The paper proposes a conceptual framework of an IoT enabled BIM platform to accomplish a real-time visualization in prefabricated concrete structures construction. This is done by using various sensors in the prefabricated components to demonstrate a highly efficient automated progress monitoring system of prefabricated construction.