Integrating Virtual Reality (VR) Into Construction Engineering and Management (CEM) Courses-A Case Study

10 pages•Published: May 15, 2022

Abstract

Construction projects are spatially and temporally dual-dynamic in nature. One of the technical challenges in teaching the construction process is how to describe the spatial lay- out of construction components. Virtual reality (VR) combined with Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology (BIM-VR) has been adopted in the construction industry for years as a communication tool between stakeholders. The technology can be used to create simulations that allow employees to get an immersive experience of a construction process that has not started, to identify potential problems before construction start, and prepare construction workers for hazards that may occur on construction sites. In this paper, the author reports the findings on evaluating the effectiveness of BIM-VR technology in en- hancing students’ spatial cognition skills of building and construction components. The evaluation was conducted using two different quantitative approaches. First, the before and after scores of students’ spatial cognition skills were measured. The statistics of score changes were used to evaluate the effectiveness of the technology. Then, an assessment was conducted in which a survey was sent to students after completion of the course to gauge their feedback on the effectiveness of the BIM-VR application which had a positive trend.

Keyphrases: bim, construction engineering and management, education, revit, visualization, vr

In: Tom Leathem, Wes Collins and Anthony Perrenoud (editors). ASC2022. 58th Annual Associated Schools of Construction International Conference, vol 3, pages 633-642.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/SKSZ
	https://doi.org/10.29007/4lpt

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{ASC2022:Integrating_Virtual_Reality_(VR),
  author    = {Ri Na and Dyala Aljagoub and Ryan Webber},
  title     = {Integrating Virtual Reality (VR) Into Construction Engineering and Management (CEM) Courses-A Case Study},
  booktitle = {ASC2022. 58th Annual Associated Schools of Construction International Conference},
  editor    = {Tom Leathem and Wes Collins and Anthony Perrenoud},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Built Environment},
  volume    = {3},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2632-881X},
  url       = {/publications/paper/SKSZ},
  doi       = {10.29007/4lpt},
  pages     = {633-642},
  year      = {2022}}

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