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Muhammad Sami Ur Rehman, Muhammad Tariq Shafiq and Fahim Ullah
The progress monitoring (PM) of construction projects is an essential aspect of project control that enables the stakeholders to make timely decisions to ensure successful project delivery, but ongoing practices are largely manual and document-centric. H...
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Clemens Kielhauser, Raul Renteria Manzano, Jeffrey J. Hoffman and Bryan T. Adey
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs), which have become a key tool in remote sensing in recent years, have also rapidly entered the practice of Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations (AECO). This paper presents an application study of a method...
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Jindian Liu, Semiha Ergan and Qilin Zhang
Traditional approaches to modular construction progress monitoring and quality control with stringent and tight tolerances for on-site and off-site assembly processes are usually based on 3D laser scanning, but the high equipment costs associated with ac...
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Frederick M. Mashao, Belay Demoz, Yehenew Kifle, Danitza Klopper, Hector Chikoore, Ricardo K. Sakai and Kingsley K. Ayisi
Upper air temperature measurements are critical for understanding weather patterns, boundary-layer processes, climate change, and the validation of space-based observations. However, there have been growing concerns over data discrepancies, the lack of h...
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Jingwu Ma, Renfeng Ma, Qi Pan, Xianjun Liang, Jianqing Wang and Xinxin Ni
With the rapid development of urbanization and industrialization, human activities have caused marine pollution in three ways: land source, air source, and sea source, leading to the problem of marine environments. Remote sensing, with its wide coverage ...
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Amirmasoud Molaei, Antti Kolu, Niko Haaraniemi and Marcus Geimer
This paper discusses the excavator?s actual productivity in trenching and grading operations. In these tasks, the quantity of material moved is not significant; precision within specified tolerances is the key focus. The manual methods for productivity e...
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Noaman Akbar Sheik, Peter Veelaert and Greet Deruyter
BIM has become an intrinsic tool in managing building projects due to its ability to comprehensively represent information in digital form. However, using BIM as an information exchange tool is still in its infancy, particularly with regard to constructi...
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Nuno Abreu, Andry Pinto, Aníbal Matos and Miguel Pires
Point cloud processing is an essential task in many applications in the AEC domain, such as automated progress assessment, quality control and 3D reconstruction. As much of the procedure used to process the point clouds is shared among these applications...
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Ryan Plummer, Samantha Witkowski, Amanda Smits , Gillian Dale
Momentum of the creation of partnerships between higher education institutions (HEIs) and communities is strong. As their significance intensifies, the question of how to judge their value is garnering increasing attention. In this perspective article, w...
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Srijeet Halder, Kereshmeh Afsari, John Serdakowski, Stephen DeVito, Mahnaz Ensafi and Walid Thabet
Construction progress monitoring involves a set of inspection tasks with repetitive in-person observations on the site. The current manual inspection process in construction is time-consuming, inefficient and inconsistent mainly due to human limitations ...
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Okan Bulut, Damien C. Cormier and Seyma Nur Yildirim-Erbasli
Traditional screening approaches identify students who might be at risk for academic problems based on how they perform on a single screening measure. However, using multiple screening measures may improve accuracy when identifying at-risk students. The ...
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Boris Forthmann, Natalie Förster and Elmar Souvignier
Monitoring the progress of student learning is an important part of teachers? data-based decision making. One such tool that can equip teachers with information about students? learning progress throughout the school year and thus facilitate monitoring a...
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The United Nations’ Agenda 2030 marks significant progress towards sustainable development by making explicit the intention to integrate previously separate social, economic and environmental agendas. Despite this intention, the Sustainable Develop...
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Rodrigo Vargas,Enrico Yépez,José Luis Andrade,Gregorio Ángeles,Tulio Arredondo,Alejandro Castellanos,Josué Delgado,Jaime Garatuza-Payan,Eugenia González del Castillo,Walter Oechel,Arturo Sánchez-Azofeifa,Erik Velasco,Enrique Vivoni,Christopher Watts
Understanding ecosystem processes from a functional point of view is essential to study relationships among climate variability, biogeochemical cycles, and surface-atmosphere interactions. Increasingly during the last decades, the eddy covariance (EC) me...
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Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Ashok K. Chapagain and Pieter R. Van Oel
This special issue is a collection of recent papers in the field of Water Footprint Assessment (WFA), an emerging area of research focused on the analysis of freshwater use, scarcity, and pollution in relation to consumption, production, and trade. As in...
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Paulius Kavaliauskas, Jaime B. Fernandez, Kevin McGuinness and Andrius Jurelionis
Automated construction progress monitoring using as-planned building information modeling (BIM) and as-built point cloud data integration has substantial potential and could lead to the fast-tracking of construction work and identifying discrepancies. La...
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Dongyeob Han, Suk Bae Lee, Mihwa Song and Jun Sang Cho
Currently, unmanned aerial vehicles are increasingly being used in various construction projects such as housing developments, road construction, and bridge maintenance. If a drone is used at a road construction site, elevation information and orthoimage...
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Claire Ellul, Neve Hamilton, Alexandros Pieri and George Floros
Although digital twins have been established in manufacturing for a long time, they are only more recently making their way into the urban environment and present a relatively new concept for the construction industry. The concept of a digital twin?a mod...
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Odirilwe Selomane, Belinda Reyers, Reinette Biggs and Maike Hamann
The United Nations? Agenda 2030 marks significant progress towards sustainable development by making explicit the intention to integrate previously separate social, economic and environmental agendas. Despite this intention, the Sustainable Development G...
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