Abstract
AbstractResearch has identified various beneficial capabilities for augmented reality technologies in the AEC industry such as virtual site visits, comparing as-built and as-planned status of projects, pre-empting schedule disputes, enhancing collaboration opportunities, and planning/training for similar projects. This paper provides an expanded foundation for future research by presenting a statistical review of augmented reality technology in the AEC industry. The review is based on articles found within eight well-known journals in architecture, engineering, construction, and facility management (AEC/FM) until the end of the year 2012. The review further narrows the literature within these journals by considering only those 133 articles found through a key word search for “augmented reality.” The selected journal articles are classified within the following dimensions: improvement focus, industry sector, target audience, project phase, stage of technology maturity, application area, comparison role, and technology. The number of articles within these dimensions are used to identify maturing and emerging trends in the literature as well as to synthesize the current state-of-the-art of augmented reality research in the AEC industry. In summary, the AR literature has increasingly focused on the demonstration of visualization and simulation applications for comparison of as-planned versus as-built statuses of the project during the construction phase to monitor project progress and address issues faced by field workers. In addition, the future trend is toward using web-based mobile augmented systems for field construction monitoring.
Highlights
The complex nature of the architecture, engineering, construction, and facility management (AEC/FM) industry and its high demand for access to information for evaluation, communication and collaboration, increases the industry’s need for information technologies
From the first see-through head-mounted AR display developed in the 1960s by Ivan Sutherland at Harvard (Sutherland, 1968), to the enhanced HD4AR and Mobile Augmented Reality System (MARS) developed by Golparvar et al (Bae et al 2012), augmented reality technologies have been used
This paper presents an in-depth statistical literature review of augmented reality technologies in construction industry over a fourteen-year period (1999–2012)
Summary
The complex nature of the architecture, engineering, construction, and facility management (AEC/FM) industry and its high demand for access to information for evaluation, communication and collaboration, increases the industry’s need for information technologies. Recent visualization technologies such as virtual and augmented reality technologies are ideal in this environment. Application areas The AEC industry is moving to embrace more AR technologies for improving various stages of construction projects This advanced computer technology provides significant advantages through simulation and visualization of the construction industry, e.g., allowing the observer to interact with both the actual and the virtual objects and to monitor the construction progress by comparing the as-planned and as-built status of the project (Shin and Dunston 2008). Various applications of AR have been recommended for the AEC/FM industry by different researchers. Dunston and Wang (2005)
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