2019 is a breakthrough year for the construction industry. In the last year, the investment in construction technology has grown by 30% up to $1.05bn. The value of the construction sector is projected to go beyond $10 trn by 2020. But who would be the driving force for AEC services?
Experienced architecture, engineering and construction companies are trying to grab the latest techniques for holding their ROI’s high. So don’t be left behind. Explore the unknown facts!!

BIM building information Modeling, VR Virtual Realty, Augmented reality AR , Robotics are few of the latest trending technique in construction.

What is AR Augmented Reality?

Using advanced camera and sensor, AR blends physical surroundings with computer-generated information, presenting in real-time. The technology has been used for several years in the video game and currently this “augmented” experience is creating waves in construction, providing opportunities to improve project lifecycle.

Blending digital and physical outlooks, augmented reality is assisting construction teams to become competent, precise, and confident in their projects. The AR global market is estimated to grow $90 billion by 2020. Instead of substituting workers on the field, AR can be used to improve the ways humans and digital machines collaborate.

As technology continues to grow, augmented reality will turn out to be a vital tool with the potential of transforming the future of the construction industry. Read on to learn about the applications of AR in 2020 and beyond.

Augmented Reality (AR)

As per Construction World, though virtual reality has been a developing trend over the last few years, it will become outdated compared to augmented reality uses and benefits. AR presents the fact to visualize the real world through the camera lens. The technology will open new opportunities for the construction industry even if it comes with a cost. It’ll revolutionize the project and the way of building things. Many consider that instead of using safety goggles, they will plan and plot sites before breaking ground.

How Augmented Reality works?

3D Model Creation, combining construction data
Users wear an AR device, orienting to their viewpoint
Building data presented digitally over physical surroundings in real-time

While virtual reality is strictly a digital experience, augmented reality pools real and digital into an immersive setting. AR projects 3D images on an individual’s physical settings as they walk through with a mobile device.

Through GPS and cameras, AR presents actual data geospatially, updating and exhibiting the essential information as the user moves through the building space. Data like schedules, working specifics, and structural plans are easily accessible, letting users automate the construction process and make decisions on site.

Applications of AR in Construction

Augmented reality is used to improve efficiency, safety, streamline collaboration, manage costs, and boost the project. Let’s check out the applications of Augmented Reality in construction.

1. Project Planning

Innovative developments in augmented reality help to produce 3D models directly on a 2D plan. Using 3D Modeling software and BIM (Building Information Modeling), 3D Modeling companies in the USA provide interactive models of building projects and present to clients at the onset of a project. The clients thus get a realistic project outcome and make desired changes before construction. Client involvement prevents expensive changes later.

AR help teams conduct walkthroughs of the complete project before execution, inspecting the structural details and components. The foresight prevents delays, reduces cost overruns, and identifies mistakes before surfacing.

2. Automated Measurements

Augmented reality helps to measure a space’s physical properties, including the height, width, and depth. Construction companies can integrate the details into the models, letting them produce more accurate structures with a comprehensive view of how the project will appear. Accurate measurements in construction ensure efficacy in the project time with the exact requirement for the labor and materials.

Besides planning, augmented reality allows field workers to automate measurements on-site at the time of construction. Wearing an AR unit, workers can tap to make automatic measurements of the constructed components and compare them against the measurements detailed in the building models. Consequently, the workers can find inconsistency in the structures and correct the problems areas to avoid higher costs and delays in construction.

3. Project Revisions

Augmented reality helps the users to make modifications to building models directly on site. Through a headset or a mobile device, workforces can exhibit interior and exterior views of construction and make alterations to the virtual plans while keeping a view intact. For example, engineers can remove and relocate walls or other components or change the layout using just a few taps on an AR device.

AR helps construction professionals to troubleshoot mistakes in a virtual environment before making changes to the structure. As digital data is updated continuously, it eliminates the guesswork from any project change, thus streamlining the workflow and avoiding material waste.

4. On-Site Project Information

The ability to pool digital data and documentation with the physical view is a game-changer. Information like the places of pipes, outlets, walls, switches, and ventilation can be accessed directly on-site in layers which can be toggled on and off. Data recovery lets field workers to monitor a project against building plan efficiently and ensure successful completion. For example, a contractor using a headset can see the locations of the drill holes in the building plans to let them make the additions appropriately and moving the project.

AR allows users to virtually see the building progress against schedule, offering project management.

5. Teamwork

Construction projects entail collaboration among several project teams, including, electricians, plumbers, designers, and managers, and more. An effective partnership confirms that a project gets completed on time as per the proposed budget.

Nevertheless, all stakeholders involved in a project are not always present on a job site. If any error crops up that needs to be addressed by all parties involved to review blueprints and make necessary changes. AR lets users take notes and share video views of an error or design issue and send information to remote teams in actual time. Both on-site and remote team members can consult with each other and work with the desired information, reducing the time and costs to make a decision.

6. Safety Drill

Safety is a challenge in the construction industry. Safety programs take time and money and aren’t always appropriately communicated to the workers. Using an AR headset, workers can be provided training on virtual drills, instruction, and safety scenarios. The direct learning improves awareness of safety, offers intuitive practice, and reduces training costs and interruption.

Augmented reality is also explored to make virtual models of equipment like cranes and lifts. Workers can use their headsets to practice operating heavy machinery in a safe and virtual set up, improving their learning and progress.

Benefits of AR Augmented Reality

Accomplishing a project on time & budget with the right plan
Ensuring project accuracy from start to finish, preventing rework, saving building costs
Overall precision & efficiency lets construction companies increase confidence in projects
Improving client relations, creating long-term ROI

Road Ahead

Even though large construction firms have implemented AR, it will become more accessible in the future as technology reduces costs. Several companies are providing the technology on a per-project basis and with free trials, letting construction managers experiment with new technology and adapt to business. From removing errors to offering insight, augmented reality can effectively streamline the product lifecycle.

Construction engineering and management companies are investing in innovative technology, like virtual reality, GEO BIM, Drones and 3D printer. Tejjy Inc is a Construction management company in Rockville, Maryland, MD, USA.

Call us  202-465-4830 or email us at info@tejjy.com for your construction management, engineering, and Building Information Modeling (BIM) Services.

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Special Mission for the Blue and Golds

September 3, 20190

Special Mission for the Blue and Golds

The U.S. Naval Academy maintains a tradition of producing young men and women who will go on to lead one of the country’s five branches of the military. The academy expects excellence in the classroom and excellence in the sports arena. A plan was developed to make modifications to the Navy-Marine Corps. Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland, one CSDA member had to be at the top of their game to complete a portion of this challenging project.

Purpose of Renovation

The stadium was opened in 1959 and is home to the Navy Midshipmen football team, the Navy Men’s Lacrosse team, and the MLL’s Chesapeake Bayhawks Lacrosse team. The Naval Academy needed to renovate a section of a mid-level wall in the 34,000-seat venue to incorporate elevator access to new skyboxes at the east end or “gold” side of the stadium. There was only a short time available to carry out this renovation, as the graduation ceremony for the 2010 Naval Academy class was about to take place just two days after the work was due to start.

Stadium Details

The mid-level exterior wall of the stadium consisted of two 8-inch-thick concrete walls with a small space between them. An opening measuring 14 feet wide by 4 feet tall was required and was to be included being safety sealed. Besides, further cutting work would be necessary some weeks later inside the stadium to allow the general contractor to connect the new skyboxes to the existing structure. This work would consist of cutting 136 feet of a concrete wall that varied in thickness from 8 to 12 inches.

Aerial View of the Stadium

Project Stakeholders Involved in the Stadium Renovation

Structure Tone, Inc. of Washington, DC, was the general contractor for the stadium renovation work. The company selected Viking Enterprises as the demolition contractor for the job, who then contacted CSDA member G&S Concrete Cutting of Rockville, Maryland, to perform the specialist cutting work that would create the specified opening.

Quote from Operation Manager

“We were very proud to be called in on such a fast-paced, high-profile project,” said Rob

White, Operation Manager for G&S. “Viking Enterprises came to us because of our professionalism and ability to work within a strict time.”

Proposed Plan for Creation

For the creation of the 14-foot-wide by 4-foot-tall opening, G&S proposed a plan to use a diamond wall saw to cut the section free. The general contractor was in agreement with this plan, and no other methods of demolition were considered. Alternative demolition methods, such as jackhammers, would have produced large amounts of debris and much more time would have been required to attain the precise dimensions of the specified opening. Before work commenced, G&S needed to subcontract a crane operator for the next day to hold the cut section of concrete during cutting and remove it. A 100-ton Liebherr crane was supplied. The following day, G&S arrived on site to set up equipment to begin cutting the opening. An operator core drilled two 4-inch-diameter holes through both 8-inch-thick outer precast and inner cast walls using a CB748 core drill from Diamond Products. The holes were to be used to thread through crane connections for the safe removal of the sections, once cut.

Implementation of the Plan

The cutting team, working approximately two stories up in a boom lift, used a hydraulic hand saw with a 20-inch Diamond Products blade to perform the wall cuts, before switching to an ICS 880 series chain saw to complete the corner cuts. Cutting and removal of both inner and outer wall sections, weighing 9,520 pounds and 5 tons respectively, were completed within five hours of the first day’s work. Following the successful completion of this cutting work within a short time scale, G&S was contacted several weeks later for another job.

Within three weeks, the contractor was asked to return to the stadium to cut and remove 136 linear feet of concrete from the top wall. The cutting work was split into eleven 12-foot-long sections that ranged from 8 to 12 inches thick. Some parts were to be cut by wall saw and removed by crane, while other sections had to be cut free using a hand saw and placed onto pallets for removal.

Corner cuts were made using a diamond chain saw.

Time Taken

New skyboxes were installed at the top of the stadium after cutting because of a 52-foot-long by a 5-foot-wide overhang on the part of the wall would not allow access by the crane. The team from G&S took 12 days to cut and remove the 12 sections of concrete. A Hydro stress wall saw from Tyrolit, with a 36-inch-diameter blade from Diamond Products, was used to make the cuts and wet vacuums were employed to collect and contain any slurry. Cutting of each section took three hours, while removal by crane took 30 minutes for each 4.2-ton piece from inside the stadium.

Challenges Faced

The use of pallets to remove some of the cut wall sections worked well as an alternative method of removing those concrete sections with an overhang, but there were a couple of other factors that presented challenges for G&S. Water supply for cutting and the positioning of hydraulics at the work area required some extra effort. The cutting area was located 250 feet above the nearest water supply, so a water hose had to be run-up to the top of the stadium to allow wet cutting. The foundation and sections of the steel structure had already been set in place to construct the new skybox, so the positioning of the contractor’s truck and hydraulic equipment was limited. The general contractor was able to remove a section of fencing around the stadium to move the truck and equipment closer to the work area.

Cut wall sections were lifted out by crane or placed on pallets for removal.

Solution – Problem Solving Approach for Overcoming the Challenges

A 60-foot boom lift was utilized to position operators at the work face; therefore, safety harnesses were required to be worn and secured to the elevator at all times during cutting.
All other items of personal protective equipment were worn by the contractor’s team to ensure safe operations.
A 20-amp CB748 Diamond Products core drill was used to create the holes for the crane connections.
Diamond Products also supplied the 20-inch-diameter blade for the hand sawing portions of the work, with an ICS 880 series chain saw used to perform the corner cuts.
Wall sawing of the 12-foot-wide sections at the top of the stadium was completed using a Hydrostress V465D1 saw from Tyrolit with a 36-inch-diameter blade from Diamond Products.

Result

The total amount of concrete cut at the Navy-Marine Corps. Memorial Stadium was 570 linear feet of 8- to 12-inch-thick wall sections. Both stages of the project performed by G&S were completed on time and within budget.
The project was a design-build that took only five months from design to completion. The new skybox area at the stadium was opened in September, and now fans of Navy’s sports teams can cheer on the blue and golds from this vantage point.

Testimonial from CEO -”We are happy to have completed this work for the Naval Academy, and are pleased with the results,” said Preetie Ghotra, CEO of G&S.

Building Information Modeling in Construction Industry

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BIM – The Torch Bearer in the Construction Industry

September 3, 20190

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a digital technique existing in the world of Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC). BIM integrated module enables efficacy in planning, designing, construction, and management. The in-depth analysis during the compilation process encompasses every aspect of building:

BIM-torch-bearer-in-construction-industry

BENEFITS OF BIM:

Ø Detailed Information: Datacenter gets created, providing access to all the modules at any stage for detailed understanding and better designing.

Ø Reduced Errors: The collaborative capabilities of BIM allow utilization of information by all the modules enabling better planning. Involvement of an architect to construction manager in a project leads to improved coordination and management. Upgradation of small change gets reflected immediately through the modules without creating discrepancies. Automated redrafting allows reduced errors and duplication of drawings.

Ø Enhanced Collaboration: Integrated platform enhances the accessibility of information by any module irrespective of the stage. Better designing improves cost and time efficacy leading to high degree output.

Ø Improved Communication: Capability of showing the designs in a technical format to the client or colleague offers incredible flexibility, aiding an in-depth understanding of clients’ requirements with accurate results. Advanced knowledge in performance gets implemented among the modules.

Ø Simulation & Visualization: BIM tools empower the team with better visualization for designers like calculating building energy performance or sunlight during different seasons. Software like Revit architecture, 3D, and many more are a support system for the engineer as based on experiences and applied rules of physics. The module allows visualization of the real-world situation providing an accurate view through improved MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing). Automation allows a precise and detailed project scope, development, and output.

Ø Effective Workflow: Clash detection feature in BIM allows early detection of clashes helping to maintain the cost estimate. Clash handling helps to mitigate risk, improve planning, as well as productivity and profitability.

Ø Sequencing: Improved coordination brings improved efficacy, allowing optimization of cost, schedule, and practical resource handling.

Ø Cost Efficacy: The automated model allows coherent working, reducing time consumption in contrast to traditional planning.

Ø Cloud Computing & Coordination: The capability of the cloud allows access to in-depth detailing of each phase, and resource allocation in reduced time and effort. Through cloud computing, you get attached to the central database server. A quick preview of the project can be given from anywhere, enhancing coordination between the team and clients.

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Construction Management – An Art of Building Structures

September 3, 20190

Construction Management (CM) helps to accomplish projects through trade contractors, contracted to the client. The core value is to achieve the task in a collaborative environment with time, cost efficiency, and high-quality standards.

Structure:

1. Project Preplanning:

An initial stage of project life development cycle includes

Analysis and Discussion for the Initial Planning
Feasibility analysis for cost and time estimation

2. Project Design Phase:

A phase consisting of Multiple Modules:

Design Management, Technical Review
Code Compliance & Constructability Reviews
Value Engineering Workshops, Analysis of Value Engineering Proposals
Cost Estimation, Analysis, Cost Control/Monitoring
Energy Studies, Utility Studies
Site Investigations, Site Service, Survey & Analysis of Hazardous Materials
Scheduling Module – Preparing Schedules & Schedule Reviews
Design Problem Resolution, Review of Design Scope Changes
Scheduling/Conducting/Documenting Meetings
Participation in Performance Meetings to establish construction duration
Participation in Partnering Activities during Design & Performance Market Studies

3. Project Procurement Phase Services:

Assistance to Contracting Officer during contract procurement
Answering RFP Questions/Bid
Attending/participating in Site Visits, Pre-bid conferences
Preparing and Issuing Solicitation Amendments
Performing Cost/Bid/Proposal Analysis

Role of Construction Management Module:

Analyzing and Specifying the Purpose and Objective of the project from Scope, Budget to Scheduling.
Allocating the responsibilities and efficient resource utilization
Implementation through coordination between integrated modules

Areas Involving Construction Management:

Agricultural: Construction of barns, animal sheds as well as water supplies and drains (wells, tanks, ditches). The constructional area includes agricultural purposes and their improvements in any budget range.
Residential Construction: We build houses, apartments, townhouses, and small office structures. Residential development can be from low budget project to any range.
Commercial Construction: The commercial construction entails massive private commercial places like malls, warehouses, banks, theatres, casinos, resorts, golf courses, and larger residential structures like high-rise hotels and condominiums.
Institutional: Construction required by the government and other public organizations. Examples include schools, fire and police stations, libraries, museums, dormitories, research buildings, hospitals, transportation terminals, some military facilities, and governmental structures.
Industrial Construction: Buildings and other constructed items for storage and product production include chemical and power plants, steel mills, oil refineries and platforms, manufacturing plants, pipelines, and seaports.
Civil Construction: Structural engineering plays a vital role in civil construction. The construction category involves the construction of:

Roads, Bridges, Dams
Railroads, Tunnels, Airports
Civil and Military Facilities

Environmental: The construction facility includes improving and supporting a cleaner environment. Environmental construction entails:

Water-related infrastructure
Wastewater treatment plants
Sanitary and storm sewers
Solid waste management
Air pollution control system

Have any questions? Get in touch with us. Reply to this email or contact us at info@tejjy.com. You may also call us on 202-465-4830.

Monthly: September 2019

Market Chasing Technology for 2020 – Augmented Reality in Construction

What is AR Augmented Reality?

Augmented Reality (AR)

How Augmented Reality works?

Applications of AR in Construction

1. Project Planning

2. Automated Measurements

3. Project Revisions

4. On-Site Project Information

5. Teamwork

6. Safety Drill

Benefits of AR Augmented Reality

Road Ahead

Special Mission for the Blue and Golds

BIM – The Torch Bearer in the Construction Industry

Construction Management – An Art of Building Structures

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