BIM for Construction Health and Safety

by Stefan Mordue

Author	: Stefan Mordue
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 115
Release	: 2019-08-13
Genre	: Technology & Engineering
ISBN	: 100070503X

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What is BIM and how does it affect the health and safety professional? How are BIM technologies used on a practical level? What opportunities are there for the use of BIM in the health and safety arena? This concise and practical guide aims to answer all these questions and more. The health and safety role is evolving towards collaboration, structured data and sharing of information as BIM – the incarnation of these sensibilities - increasingly underpins construction practice. As the industry begins to see how these two topics can and should intersect this guide provides context and practical advice by explaining the basic principles of BIM, how it will shape the health and safety professional’s role and what tools and processes will need to be embedded in the future. It also highlights the wealth of opportunities that BIM provides to improve health and safety standards and effective coordination – the means to exploit the potential of BIM.

BIM and Construction Health and Safety

by Hamed Golzad

Author	: Hamed Golzad
Publisher	: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages	: 166
Release	: 2023-06-30
Genre	: Technology & Engineering
ISBN	: 1000904628

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This book aims to conceptualise the implementation of building information modelling (BIM) in the workplace health and safety (WHS) management of construction projects to reduce occupational accidents. The safety performance of the construction industry has always been a concern across the globe, and this devastating reputation has drawn the concern of many nations. The potential functions of BIM can drastically alter the WHS practices of the construction industry. BIM facilitates WHS information exchange and management and supports better collaboration and project planning through virtual visualisation of the construction WHS management process. Despite an increasing interest in BIM, a successful mechanism for employing BIM in construction WHS management is absent. Therefore, this book aims to fill this dearth by presenting a model for the integration of such innovative interventions with the current industry practices in a practical manner through the proper identification of effective areas and evaluation of their impacts on the key criteria of construction projects and organisations. This approach will foster the implementation of BIM in the current state of WHS management in the industry and can potentially reduce occupational accidents on construction sites. This book is essential reading for researchers and professionals interested in how BIM technology can improve health and safety on construction projects. It is intended for engineers, project managers, construction managers, safety officers and safety managers.

Construction Health and Safety in Developing Countries

by Patrick Manu

Author	: Patrick Manu
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 324
Release	: 2019-08-22
Genre	: Architecture
ISBN	: 0429848544

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The global construction sector is infamous for high levels of injuries, accidents and fatalities, and poor health and well-being of its workforce. While this record appears in both developed and developing countries, the situation is worse in developing countries, where major spending on infrastructure development is expected. There is an urgent need to improve construction health and safety (H&S) in developing countries. The improvement calls for the development of context-specific solutions underpinned by research into challenges and related solutions. This edited volume advances the current understanding of construction H&S in developing countries by revealing context-specific issues and challenges that have hitherto not been well explored in the literature, and applying emergent H&S management approaches and practices in developing countries. Coverage includes countries from the regions of sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe. This book, which is the first compendium of research into construction H&S issues in developing countries, adds considerable insight into the field and presents innovative solutions to help address poor H&S in construction in developing nations. It is a must read for all construction professionals, researchers and practitioners interested in construction and occupational H&S, safety management, engineering management and development studies.

Driving Transformational Change in the Digital Built Environment

by Jason Underwood

Author	: Jason Underwood
Publisher	:
Total Pages	:
Release	: 2021
Genre	: Building information modeling
ISBN	: 9781799866008

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"This book focuses on some of the current developments in practice and education within the construction industry towards facilitating the transformation in the digitally-built environment. In particular, from a practice perspective, developments are presented to enhance the client's understanding of digitally-enabled collaboration, interoperability and open standards, and maturity/capability and offers approaches to embedding digital construction within education"--

Building Information Modeling

by André Borrmann

Author	: André Borrmann
Publisher	: Springer
Total Pages	: 582
Release	: 2018-09-19
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 3319928627

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Building Information Modeling (BIM) refers to the consistent and continuous use of digital information throughout the entire lifecycle of a built facility, including its design, construction and operation. In order to exploit BIM methods to their full potential, a fundamental grasp of their key principles and applications is essential. Accordingly, this book combines discussions of theoretical foundations with reports from the industry on currently applied best practices. The book’s content is divided into six parts: Part I discusses the technological basics of BIM and addresses computational methods for the geometric and semantic modeling of buildings, as well as methods for process modeling. Next, Part II covers the important aspect of the interoperability of BIM software products and describes in detail the standardized data format Industry Foundation Classes. It presents the different classification systems, discusses the data format CityGML for describing 3D city models and COBie for handing over data to clients, and also provides an overview of BIM programming tools and interfaces. Part III is dedicated to the philosophy, organization and technical implementation of BIM-based collaboration, and discusses the impact on legal issues including construction contracts. In turn, Part IV covers a wide range of BIM use cases in the different lifecycle phases of a built facility, including the use of BIM for design coordination, structural analysis, energy analysis, code compliance checking, quantity take-off, prefabrication, progress monitoring and operation. In Part V, a number of design and construction companies report on the current state of BIM adoption in connection with actual BIM projects, and discuss the approach pursued for the shift toward BIM, including the hurdles taken. Lastly, Part VI summarizes the book’s content and provides an outlook on future developments. The book was written both for professionals using or programming such tools, and for students in Architecture and Construction Engineering programs.

Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Design, Construction and Operations III

by P. De Wilde

Author	: P. De Wilde
Publisher	: WIT Press
Total Pages	: 362
Release	: 2019-12-10
Genre	: Technology & Engineering
ISBN	: 1784663611

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Originating from the 2019 International Conference on Building Information Modelling this book presents latest findings in the field. This volume presents research from a panel of experts from industry, practice and academia touching on key topics, the development of innovative solutions, and the identification future trends.

Occupational Health and Safety in Construction Project Management

by Helen Lingard

Author	: Helen Lingard
Publisher	: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages	: 472
Release	: 2005
Genre	: Technology & Engineering
ISBN	: 9780419262107

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This book addresses an increasingly important area in the construction industry. Case studies are used extensively to illustrate important points and refer to current successful safety management techniques.

Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health III

by Pedro M. Arezes

Author	: Pedro M. Arezes
Publisher	: Springer Nature
Total Pages	: 661
Release	: 2021-11-12
Genre	: Technology & Engineering
ISBN	: 303089617X

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This book gathers cutting-edge research and best practices relating to occupational risk and safety management, healthcare and ergonomics. It covers strategies for different types of industry, such as construction, food, chemical and healthcare. It gives a special emphasis on challenges posed by automation, discussing solutions offered by technologies, and reporting on case studies carried out in different countries. Chapters are based on selected contributions to the 17th International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene (SHO 2021), held virtually on November 17–19, 2021, from Portugal. By reporting on different perspectives, such as the ones from managers, workers and OSH professionals, and covering timely issues, such as safety evaluation of human-robot collaboration, this book offers extensive information and a source of inspiration to OSH researchers, practitioners and organizations operating in both local and global contexts.

Advances in Building Information Modeling

by Salih Ofluoglu

Author	: Salih Ofluoglu
Publisher	: Springer Nature
Total Pages	: 215
Release	: 2020-03-11
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 3030428524

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Eurasian BIM Forum, EBF 2019, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in May 2019. The 16 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers cover such topics as BIM adoption and implementation; BIM for project management; BIM for sustainability and performative design; BIM and facility management and infrastructural issues.