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Digital Transformation and Decarbonization of the Construction Industry

The rapid proliferation of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning along with continuous advances in BIM, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and other technologies is heralding unprecedented opportunities for digital transformation in the construction industry. The potential benefits of digital innovation in boosting productivity, improving safety and reducing costs across the construction lifecycle are well established. However, the integration of state-of-the-art technologies into the construction workplace is faced with significant challenges including interoperability issues, high cost of entry, inadequate training and safety concerns. In addition, decarbonization is a pressing issue globally, and the built environment accounts for as much as 25% of global carbon dioxide emissions. While the construction sector is gradually starting to shift towards more sustainable and environmentally-friendly practices, drastic transformational changes are necessary for the industry to reach net zero by 2050. To reach this goal, the industry will need decarbonize three times faster than it did over the last three decades. In light of the above challenges, several workshops will be held with world-leading research groups such as ASHVIN, The Center for Smart Construction Technology, Intelligent Construction Automation Centre and Center for Intelligent Building Energy and Environment Management. During these sessions, participants will have the opportunity to engage with distinguished academics and industry practitioners as they share their cutting-edge developments and achievements towards the digitalization and decarbonization of the construction industry. These workshops will be held as hybrid events, with in-person activities along with synchronized online sessions. 

 

Workshop 1

Workshop Title: Digital Twin for Construction Sites

Organizer: Professor Timo Hartmann and ASHVIN Research Group

Organizer's Affiliation: Technical University of Berlin

Workshop Introduction: The large scale European Horizon 2020 project ASHVIN aims at enabling the European construction industry to significantly improve its productivity, while reducing cost and ensuring absolutely safe work conditions, by providing a proposal for a European wide digital twin standard, an open source digital twin platform integrating IoT and image technologies, and a set of tools and demonstrated procedures to apply the platform and the standard proven to guarantee specified productivity, cost, and safety improvements. In the workshop, Professor Timo Hartmann will present the first results of the project with respect to data collection, fusion, and analysis pipelines to move sensor measurements through the IoT to decision makers.

Registration Fee: Free for conference registrants

 

Workshop 2

Workshop Title:  Intelligent Autonomous Building Energy Environmental Management Systems (iBEEMS)       

Organizer: Professor Hyeun Jun Moon

Organizer's Affiliation: Dankook University

Workshop Introduction: The Energy Big Data Research Center is conducting research to provide an optimal building environment based on various real-world data related to buildings. This Intelligent Autonomous Building Energy Environmental Management Systems (iBEEMS) project studies a series of processes to control the building environment by applying processes such as fragmentation, sequencing, mapping, and mutation detection to buildings which are similar to the human genome analysis process. In particular, it defines a standard process for spatial DNA and building genome analysis in a building, which includes a series of steps such as data collection, building marker selection, building genome construction, and building problem identification. In other words, this technology uses big data information to analyze spatial DNA and building genome, and combines it with AI-autonomous driving technology to enable precise care tailored to each building and space according to building genome information and characteristics. In this workshop, we will introduce the major achievements of the iBEEMS project carried out so far and use it as an opportunity to derive excellent results based on expert discussions.

Workshop Date: November 17, 2022

Workshop Schedule:

  • 13:00 - 13:20: Introduction
  • 13:20 - 13:40: AI model for building energy
  • 13:40 - 14:00: Indoor Air Quality monitoring and modeling
  • 14:00 - 14:20: Occupants detection and prediction
  • 14:20 - 14:40: iBEEMS platform and security
  • 14:40 - 15:00: Questions and answers

Registration Fee: Free for conference registrants

 

Workshop 3

Workshop Title: Smart Construction, providing breakthroughs for the new future of construction industry through digital transformation.       

Organizer: Dr. Sung-min Michael Cho

Organizer's Affiliation: Center for Smart Construction Technology

Workshop Introduction: The Korean government launched a 155 million dollars national R&D project for the development of smart construction technologies and the Center for Smart Construction Technology lead the project since 2020. Center for Smart Construction Technology will promote the digital transformation of the construction industry with emphasis on practical application and field operation and help Korean companies enter the global market based on their accumulated digital capabilities. We will lead the achievements of technology development that can be actively applied in industrial sites beyond the use in laboratories and implement SOC Digitalization and also contribute to the creation of a new construction ecosystem comprising digital data and platforms. In this workshop, we will introduce our research progress combined with many innovative technologies to implement data-driven engineering. Any researchers interested in the digital transformation of construction are invited to attend and brighten our event.

Workshop Date: November 18, 2022

Workshop Schedule:

  • Construction data Visualization and sharing using AR/MR/VR

  • VR & robot-based remote construction technology that enables remote production and assembly of piers unmanned in high-altitude & risk environments

  • Constructability judgment technology through prefab member shape information
  • How to use BIM in the safety control system
  • UAV image-based automatic scaffolding element identification technology using instance segmentation
  • 3D semantic segmentation performance improvement technology using synthetic data augmentation and generative adversarial neural network for large-scale scaffold site monitoring

  • Development of AR visualization module based on digital twin model to enhance utilization of on-site process information

  • Construction visualization technology using platform-based digital twin

Registration Fee: Free for conference registrants

 

Workshop 4

Workshop Title: R&D achievement by Intelligent Construction Automation Center (ICAC)       

Organizer: Professor. Dong-Eun Lee

Organizer's Affiliation: Intelligent Construction Automation Center (Kyungpook National University)

Workshop Introduction: The workshop shares R&D achievements obtained by ICAS for past four years. The thesis includes intelligent, unmanned, and automated construction methods and equipment that innovates construction productivity and safety performance for pioneering future construction. The center consists of three groups each of which has the research goals shown as follows:

  • Group 1: Unmanned and automated construction management achieving timely appropriate data collection for construction job site
  • Group 2: Controlling autonomous construction equipment and unmanned construction robot
  • Group 3: Preventive method for environmental, structural, and earthwork hazard and safety using edge computing

Workshop Date: November 17, 2022

Workshop Schedule:

  • 15:15 – 15:40: Data analysis method for unmanned monitoring and controlling of construction site

  • 15:40 – 16:05: VR Guidance model for improving construction skills of laborer

  • 16:05 – 16:30: Control system for autonomous construction of heavy equipment

  • 16:30 – 16:55: Labor productivity innovation and manpower saving method using construction robot

  • 16:55 – 17:20: ICT-based construction site environmental performance monitoring system

  • 17:20 – 17:45: ICT-based structural safety and underground construction safety monitoring system

Registration Fee: Free for conference registrants