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Construction Information Technology group excels at international conference

Construction Information Technology group excels at international conference

Ioannis Anagnostopoulos (left)

The Laing O’Rourke Centre’s Construction Information Technology (CIT) research group published five papers and brought home both major awards at the 16th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE).

Held in Osaka, Japan, the conference focused on applications of information and communications technology to civil, building and environmental engineering. More than 250 papers were accepted for publication in the conference proceedings, and nearly 300 scholars and industry representatives attended the three-day event.

Third-year PhD student Ioannis Anagnostopoulos earned the Best Student Paper award. His paper, ‘Object Boundaries and Room Detection in As-Is BIM Models from Point Cloud Data’, focuses on simplifying object modelling from point cloud data for the accurate creation of as-is building information models while enriching them with room detection. The proposed method utilises geometric and density parameters to achieve the aforementioned goal. Dr Michael Belsky and Dr Ioannis Brilakis, also of the CIT Lab, were the co-authors of the paper.

Ioannis received his BEng-MEng in Civil Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2013 with a major in Transportation Engineering and Construction Management. His research interests are on automated 3D modelling of point clouds for the accurate depiction of the as-built conditions. Part of his research was conducted at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, USA.

Steven Vick

Second-year PhD student Steven Vick was bestowed the Best Student Presentation award for his talk entitled ‘A Review of Linear Transportation Construction Progress Monitoring Techniques’. The fifteen-minute presentation covered the state of practice and existing research on automated construction progress monitoring.

Steven is a Major in the United States Air Force. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Loyola Marymount University and a master’s degree in Construction and Engineering Management from Stanford University. He has ten years’ experience as a civil engineering officer in the United States Air Force. Most recently, Steve was an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the United States Air Force Academy. His research is focused on the use of computer vision techniques to enhance civil infrastructure progress monitoring at remote and dangerous locations.

Other CIT members presenting papers at the conference included fourth-year PhD student Stefania Radopoulou, third-year PhD student Marianna Kopsida and second-year PhD student Philipp Hüthwohl.

The CIT Laboratory is a state-of-the-art facility that is set up for sensing, information retrieval and knowledge discovery from infrastructure data. The research projects at the laboratory focus on the extraction and analysis of unstructured and semi-structured data, such as images, video, and the geometry of construction projects. The laboratory also engages in education, outreach and engagement activities that relate to its mission. This includes demonstrations for graduate and undergraduate students, hands-on activities for secondary education, student experiments for class projects, and others.

Reference: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, ISBN 978-4-9907371-2-2

This article was originally published on the CIT website.

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