1st Edition
Digital Technologies for Engineering Construction Information Productivity
About the Author
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: General Introduction
Chapter 2: Digital Construction Technologies
Chapter 3: Building Construction Technologies
Chapter 4: Common Concepts, System Integration, and Interoperability
Chapter 5: Digital Construction Applications
Chapter 6: Cloud-Based BIM
Chapter 7: Information Management
Chapter 8: Benefits of Digital Construction Technologies
Chapter 9: Barriers to Digital Construction Technologies Adoption
Chapter 10: Future Directions
References
Biography
Fonbeyin Henry Abanda is an Associate Professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Travaux Publics in Yaoundé, Cameroon, and formerly served as a Reader and Associate Professor in Construction IT at the School of the Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom. His research interests are in the areas of Semantic Web, Digital Construction Technology, and Artificial Intelligence. He has worked on research projects funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the International Labour Organisation and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He has designed, implemented and delivered BIM related modules on the undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the School of the Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University. He is currently supervising a number of PhD students working on construction project management, facilities management, BIM, Digital Twins and the Semantic Web. Henry has delivered BIM lectures in so many countries including India, Ecuador, Cameroon, Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Spain, France, UK, Canada, Finland, Germany, The Netherlands, etc. Henry was the lead facilitator in training 180 construction professionals through hands-on workshops on the use of BIM for construction project management and quantity surveying in the UK.
