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

职业：开发一个集成框架，用于捕获、建模和可视化建设项目的历史建设项目的历史可以在支持设施/基础设施的整个生命周期中的决策、提高专业人员的知识以及支持新项目的决策方面有多种用途。 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日益增加，以及业主需求的不断增加，下一代土木工程师需要了解这些技术的能力，以便在施工现场有效地利用它们，并在其过程中利用它们。拟议的职业发展计划建立在现实捕捉，项目数据建模和可视化技术的进步，旨在开发一个集成的框架，用于捕获，建模和可视化一个渐进的，语义丰富的，计算机可解释的项目历史表示，通过结合产品，过程和情况相关的数据，使积极的项目控制和学习。 拟议的计划还着眼于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中和高中学生，特别是妇女和少数民族学生的外联活动。 研究，教育和推广活动将与国家和国际建筑和业主公司和组织，国家研究实验室和国际研究中心密切合作。 拟议的五年职业生涯计划的预期研究贡献包括详细的用例和需求分析，以利用项目历史进行建设项目管理的目的;融合从不同的现实捕捉技术收集的数据的形式化方法;建模项目历史信息的表示模式;和可视化项目历史的环境。 总之，这些贡献将提供第一个集成的方法来捕获，建模和可视化项目历史的框架。 这种新的范式预计将成为众多新的研究方法和项目在施工管理，设施/基础设施管理，信息建模和技术开发，可视化和知识管理在整个生命周期的设施/基础设施的跳板。通过这一职业规划，预计将教育下一代土木工程师，使他们具有强大的信息技术知识和经验，对解决问题的积极态度和掌握自我导向的探究。 考虑到建筑业的规模，这些研究、教育和推广活动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.