A BIM-Enabled Approach for Construction Inspection

Abstract

This paper presents an approach for inspection of construction enabled via building information modeling (BIM). It meets the following criteria: (1) all major inspection tasks and locations are determined before the site inspection trip; (2) inspectors can easily retrieve the prepared images generated from the BIM model and related construction information required to complete the inspection tasks without complicated manipulation of the BIM model during inspection; and (3) the inspector's tasks are straight-forward and mainly involve data collection. This means that the inspector's tasks at the construction site are well defined and free of possible interference from site engineers. In the ongoing research presented in this paper, a BIM-enabled construction inspection system is prototyped based on the proposed approach. The system framework and user interface (UI) are discussed and designed to achieve effective and efficient inspection of construction.