• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• autumn
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• pp.163-168
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• 2001

In the domestic construction field, there are a lot of problems related to construction information exchange and sharing owing to the absence of construction drawing information exchange standard. To solve the problems effectively, it is necessary to apply STEP standard that is international standard and standard technology for achieving the establishment of Construction CALS. This study focus on suggesting a methodology to solve problems which occur to the current construction drawing information exchanging and sharing practice. The domestic and foreign standardization projects related to the construction drawing information have been investigated and analyzed. In result, a methodology of applying the STEP standard has been suggested. In addition, a verification and certification methodology for applying the CALS/EC construction drawing information exchange standard(STEP) have been suggested.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.6379-6387
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• 2014

Standardized construction information classification enables extensive information from the construction industry to be shared and exchanged clearly by means of unified information expression. Recently, the constriction information classification in North America and Europe has been revised to adapt to BIM technology and applied to various BIM projects. In Korea, government established construction information classification and made efforts to be standardized. On the other hand, it showed low applicability at the practice field and had no revision plan for adapting BIM. In this study, the authors suggest an improvement plan of construction information classification for applying BIM with the purpose of availability enhancement and adaption to a construction environment change.

• Journal of KIBIM
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.35-49
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• 2024

IFC, a neutral standard data model for BIM, ensures data interoperability across BIM applications but struggles with adapting to diverse construction standards across countries and regions. In practice, the standard IFC schema does not include the entity and attribute information necessary for reviewing Korean Construction Standards. To overcome this, this study developed an extended IFC schema that incorporates design and construction standards data specifically for bridge. The extended IFC schema defines entities for representing types of bridges, structures, and elements, and Psets for containing relevant standards information. This schema is customized to be compatible with both Korean Design Standards (KDS) and Korean Construction Specifications (KCS). Additionally, based on the extended IFC schema, a specialized extension module was developed, capable of embedding design and construction standards data by element within IFC Physical File. Through this module, the necessary design and construction standards were inserted into specific elements.

• International conference on construction engineering and project management
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.415-419
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• 2015

Engineering is a value-adding process applying knowledge and skills in the construction industry that includes the planning, feasibility study, project management (PM), front end engineering and design (FEED), detail design, procurement, construction, supervision, and operation. Among these engineering activities, FEED is defined as a comprehensive design practice in the early design phase focused on conceptual design and basic design. It is a particularly influencing area that determines the competitiveness of procurement and construction capability of construction firms (KNIN 2013). Nevertheless, previous studies in FEED have been limited to the design process, deliverable, or particular management technique (e.g. system engineering, collaboration, information etc.). In this context, the purpose of this study is to propose a comprehensive FEED business process structure for project management of thermal power plant construction projects encompassing the entire project life cycle. And an assessment methodology for FEED functions was developed. It is expected that the proposed structure of FEED functions and FEED evaluation methodology will contribute to improvement of competitive capability of engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) companies.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.109-116
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• 2004

The DfS(Design for Safety) concept is expected to be widely used to promote pro-active construction safety management. It will open up tremendous opportunities for tile owner, designer, and constructor to prevent accidents in construction projects. Construction safety management using the DfS concept is regarded as the most difficult job for the owner, designer and contractor to undertake, because an information model using the DfS concept is not utilized as a tool to support pro-active construction safety management. Therefore, there has been a growing need toward an information model during the design process ai recent practice of construction safety management have emphasized the significance of the pre-construction phase of projects. The objective of this study is to develop the construction safety information model being composed of conceptual, logical, and computerized information models as the tool that helps owner, designer and contractor find out and communicate as well as understand the hazardous nature of the construction projects during the design process.

• International conference on construction engineering and project management
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• 2013.01a
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• pp.1-6
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• 2013

Concrete construction requires utilization of many temporary facilities such as formwork, shoring, and scaffolding. Appropriate use of these temporary facilities greatly impacts the quality, cost, schedule, and safety of concrete construction. The current practice in design and planning of temporary facilities is often manual, error-prone, and re-active based on construction site layout, status, and progress in the field. Early design and planning of temporary facilities for concrete construction using Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology offers a potential solution. Although some commercially-available software exists that assists in the generation of temporary facility designs, the construction industry lacks tools that support detailed planning and design of many other temporary facilities. This research presents our early work in automating the design and planning of temporary facilities utilizing BIM. Algorithms were developed to automatically assess geometric conditions of work space to detect required temporary facilities and design them. The proposed methodology was implemented in a test model. By automatically incorporating temporary facilities into BIM, more realistic construction models can be created with less effort and errors. Temporary facilities-loaded models can finally be used for communication, bill of materials, scheduling, etc. and as a benchmark for field installation of temporary formwork, shoring, and scaffolding systems.

• International conference on construction engineering and project management
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• 2017.10a
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• pp.52-61
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• 2017

Considering its significant impact on the cost and schedule of construction projects, formwork as one part of temporary facility categories in construction should be arranged precisely. Current practice in the formwork planning is often conducted manually and repetitively, causing low efficiency and time waste. This study proposes an automated framework to generate more accurate and detailed formwork plans by utilizing information from building information modeling (BIM) considering the adequate geometric and semantic information provided by the BIM model. The dimensions and quantities information of elements in a building can be extracted automatically. Then, a rule is prepared for calculating the required forms erected around elements based on the contact areas. Finally, an algorithm of integrating first fit decreasing (FFD) with coordinated bottom left (CBL) is applied to automatically generate the formwork plan. The BIM-based automated planning framework is demonstrated by an illustrative example. The results show that the proposed framework can generate the formwork plan accurately and automatically, and significantly improve the efficiency in the formwork plan and reuse.

• International conference on construction engineering and project management
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.956-961
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• 2009

When construction engineers perform their work in the jobsite, they have to record as-built conditions in the project log (Data Collection). On the other hand, the engineers often have to refer to the construction documents when necessary at the job faces (Data Access). The practice of Data Collection and Data Access in the jobsite can be greatly enhanced by utilizing mobile computing with wireless communications. In this paper, two cases of mobile computing applications for construction field management are presented; Mobile Specifications System and Mobile Data Collection System. The demonstration of the process for developing two mobile applications is the primary purpose of the paper. The problems and issues involved with adopting mobile computing for construction field are also presented. The simple information framework for mobile computing has been also proposed as an outcome of the research. As for development tools, readily available relational database and wireless network have been used. The use of commercial mobile broadband was examined for data communication where local area network is not available.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2021.05a
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• pp.283-284
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• 2021

Due to the nature of the construction industry, massive and diverse data is generated and collected from each project. It can be classified into a number of variables that specify the distinct characteristics of construction projects. However, a variable is used in different terms depending on the users. This situation plays as a great barrier to effective construction information management and also has limitations to collective research and practice. As a solution, it is essential for developing common and shared variables. In this context, the aim of this study is to define systematically organized standard variables for globally collaborative construction management. The standard variables are identified by bibliometrics analysis with VOSviewer, and the bibliographic data is collected from the Scopus with 13,533 documents about construction management.

• Educational Technology International
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.121-137
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• 2005

In today's information-rich society, the need for information literacy has urgency. Three tasks of information processing are filtering, meaning-matching, meaning-construction that could be strengthened through inquiry-based learning. The cycles of reflection and practice develop the habit of mind, or conscious information processing that allow the learners to acquire higher level of information literacy. An on-line inquiry-based learning environment designed for information literacy may help learners to perform their lifelong learning better with the ability to appreciate, locate, evaluate, and use information effectively.