CAREER: Development of an Integrated Framework for Capturing, Modeling and Visualizing the History of Construction Projects

职业：开发用于捕获、建模和可视化建设项目历史的集成框架建设项目的历史可以在设施/基础设施的整个生命周期中支持决策、提高专业人员的知识和支持新项目的决策方面具有多种用途。当前用于捕获、建模、分析和可视化项目历史的方法不是最佳的，并且没有利用现实捕获和信息技术的进步。随着设施/基础设施设计和施工的复杂性以及业主需求的增加，下一代土木工程师需要了解这些技术的能力，以便在建筑工地有效地利用它们，并在其过程中利用它们。拟议的职业发展计划以现实捕捉、项目数据建模和可视化技术的进步为基础，旨在通过结合与产品、过程和情况有关的数据，开发一个综合框架，用于捕获、建模和可视化项目历史的进化的、语义丰富的、计算机可解释的表示，从而实现主动的项目控制和学习。拟议计划的目标还包括发展以教育问题为基础和以信息技术为基础的学习单元、多学科项目课程以及面向初高中学生，特别是妇女和少数民族学生的拓展活动。研究、教育和推广活动将与国内和国际建筑和业主公司和组织、一个国家研究实验室和国际研究中心密切合作进行。拟议的五年职业规划的预期研究贡献包括详细的用例和需求分析，以便为建设项目管理目的利用项目历史；从不同的现实捕捉技术收集的数据融合的形式化方法；项目历史信息建模的表示模式；以及一个可视化项目历史的环境。总之，这些贡献将提供第一个用于捕获、建模和可视化项目历史的框架的集成方法。这种新模式有望成为建筑管理、设施/基础设施管理、信息建模和技术开发、可视化和整个设施/基础设施生命周期知识管理等领域众多新颖研究方法和项目的跳板。透过这个职业规划，我们期望教育下一代土木工程师，使他们具备丰富的资讯科技知识和经验、积极解决问题的态度和掌握自主探究的能力。鉴于建筑行业的规模，这些研究、教育和推广贡献预计将直接影响美国的劳动力和经济，并有可能使民用基础设施系统的设计、运营和管理更好。

CAREER: Development of an Integrated Framework for Capturing, Modeling and Visualizing the History of Construction ProjectsThe history of a construction project can have a multitude of uses in supporting decisions throughout the lifecycle of a facility/infrastructure, in advancing professionals' knowledge, and in supporting decisions on new projects. Current approaches for capturing, modeling, analyzing and visualizing project history are less than optimal and do not take advantage of advances in reality capture and information technologies. With increasing complexities in facility/infrastructure design and construction and with increasing owner demands, next generations of civil engineers need to understand the capabilities of such technologies to utilize them effectively at construction sites and leverage them in their processes. The proposed career development plan builds on advancements in reality capture, project data modeling and visualization technologies and is aimed at developing an integrated framework for capturing, modeling and visualizing an evolutionary, semantically-rich, computer-interpretable representation of the history of a project by incorporating product-, process- and situation-related data to enable active project control and learning. The proposed plan also targets development of educational problem-based and information technology-based learning units, a multi-disciplinary project course, and outreach activities to middle and high-school students, especially women and minority students. The research, education and outreach activities will be conducted in close collaboration with national and international construction and owner companies and organizations, a national research lab, and an international research center. The expected research contributions of the proposed five-year career plan include detailed use-cases and requirements analysis for utilization of project history for construction project management purposes; formalized approaches for fusing data collected from different reality capture technologies; representation schema for modeling project history information; and an environment for visualizing project history. Altogether these contributions will provide the first integrated approach towards a framework for capturing, modeling and visualizing project history. This new paradigm is expected to be a springboard for a multitude of novel research approaches and projects in construction management, facility/infrastructure management, information modeling and technology development, visualization and knowledge management throughout the lifecycle of a facility/infrastructure. Through this career plan, it is expected to educate the next generation of civil engineers so as to provide them with a strong information technology knowledge and experience, a positive attitude about problem-solving and a mastery of self-directed inquiry. Given the size of the construction industry, these research, education and outreach contributions are expected to directly impact the US workforce and economy and will potentially enable better design, operation and management of the civil infrastructure systems.