Civil and Environmental Engineering

Automated approaches towards BIM-based intelligent decision support in design, construction, and facility operations

November 02, 2018

12:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m. ET

Mellon Auditorium, Posner Hall

Speaker

Fernanda Leite, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE.
Associate Professor
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin

Abstract

The architecture, engineering, construction, and facility management (AECFM) industry has been experiencing many changes since inexpensive networked, mobile computing devices have become ubiquitous. With the rising amount of information and data generated in the life cycle of capital projects, information modeling and data interoperability have become a critical element in design, engineering, construction, and maintenance of capital facilities.

Recent advances in Visualization, Information Modeling, and Simulation (VIMS) have the potential to address a number of these pressing challenges. The objective of this talk is to discuss challenges and ongoing research in three areas of study in VIMS: capturing experiential knowledge in building information modeling (BIM)-based design coordination; 4-dimensional modeling for site-specific safety planning; and automating the BIM upkeep process in the facility operations phase leveraging deep learning and computer vision.

Speaker bio

Fernanda Leite is an associate professor in the Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin. She has a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, from Carnegie Mellon University.

Prior to her graduate education, she worked as a project manager in her home country of Brazil in multiple building construction and infrastructure projects. Her technical interests include information technology for construction, building and civil information modeling, collaboration and coordination technologies, and construction safety.

At the University of Texas at Austin Leite teaches courses on project management and economics, building information modeling, and construction safety. Her funded research projects have focused on model-based benchmarking of capital projects; 3-D modeling of construction work zone safety and autonomous safety monitoring; construction planning and work packaging through autonomous 3-D model generation; and automated approaches towards updating 3-D building information models of facilities in operation.

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