Pub Date : 2021-11-15DOI: 10.1109/IEEECONF53624.2021.9667949
Nahla Hazem, I. Fahim
People's activities and a growing population contribute to a large increase in waste generation, resulting in several environmental risks that endanger life on the planet. Residues from agriculture contain a variety of beneficial chemicals. As an alternative source for the manufacturing of various products, these wastes can be utilized. To save resources and maintain the quality of the environment, agricultural residues management is considered an important technique. An increasing amount of bioplastics are being produced from agricultural waste because of its low cost and availability. It has a wide range of uses. Plastic films, bottles, and biodegradable medical equipment are some of the most popular benefits. It is commonly utilized in the packaging industry because of its ability to withstand high temperatures. Food packaging and single-use plastic have become increasingly popular with companies. Accordingly, companies started to adopt projects focusing on producing PLA from agricultural waste. Consequently, this paper aims to analyze the economic feasibility of converting agricultural waste to polylactic acid. This study covers two years using simVenture software. The goal of SimVenture is to help young people develop their corporates, businesses, and entrepreneurial thinking by stimulating their ideas. Moreover, the data collected is based on in-depth interviews with experts in this field. The results showed that the shareholder satisfaction and the cash flow increased over the two years. Also, the number of the produced products has increased. Although the number of liabilities increased in the first quarter of the first year, it noticeably decreased in the last quarter of the second year.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-15DOI: 10.1109/IEEECONF53624.2021.9668166
Nauman Riyaz Maldar, C. Ng, E. Oğuz
In recent years, the cross-flow hydrokinetic turbines (HKTs) have been researched intensively owing to their key characteristics such as independency of flow direction and simple design. The Savonius turbine, being a drag-based device is known to have good starting performance. On the other hand, the lift-based Darrieus turbine, in several studies, has demonstrated reasonable efficiency over a wide range of flow velocities. To capitalize on the respective advantages, both the devices can be integrated together on the same axis thus forming a combined/hybrid turbine. In this paper, the authors have collected and analyzed published studies that investigate the performance of such hybrid Savonius-Darrieus designs with respect to hydrokinetic applications. Hardly a review study exists hitherto which solely discusses the studies for hybrid turbine that have been conducted using water as the operating fluid. Therefore, the primary aim of this paper is to establish a distinct research background for the hybrid turbine exclusively in terms of hydrokinetic applications. In addition to summarizing the existing literature, the present study also highlights the key gaps that will further enable the concerned researchers to explore the uninvestigated aspects within the domain of hybrid HKTs.
{"title":"A Review of the Hybrid Darrieus-Savonius Turbine for Hydrokinetic Applications","authors":"Nauman Riyaz Maldar, C. Ng, E. Oğuz","doi":"10.1109/IEEECONF53624.2021.9668166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF53624.2021.9668166","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the cross-flow hydrokinetic turbines (HKTs) have been researched intensively owing to their key characteristics such as independency of flow direction and simple design. The Savonius turbine, being a drag-based device is known to have good starting performance. On the other hand, the lift-based Darrieus turbine, in several studies, has demonstrated reasonable efficiency over a wide range of flow velocities. To capitalize on the respective advantages, both the devices can be integrated together on the same axis thus forming a combined/hybrid turbine. In this paper, the authors have collected and analyzed published studies that investigate the performance of such hybrid Savonius-Darrieus designs with respect to hydrokinetic applications. Hardly a review study exists hitherto which solely discusses the studies for hybrid turbine that have been conducted using water as the operating fluid. Therefore, the primary aim of this paper is to establish a distinct research background for the hybrid turbine exclusively in terms of hydrokinetic applications. In addition to summarizing the existing literature, the present study also highlights the key gaps that will further enable the concerned researchers to explore the uninvestigated aspects within the domain of hybrid HKTs.","PeriodicalId":389608,"journal":{"name":"2021 Third International Sustainability and Resilience Conference: Climate Change","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122627335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-15DOI: 10.1109/IEEECONF53624.2021.9667962
Dina El Kayaly, Nahla Hazem, I. Fahim
The paper presents the impact of COVID 19 on small- and medium-sized enterprises and the survival initiatives based on the owners' perspectives. The authors focused on plastic packaging small and medium size producers working in Egypt as a case study. The study applies qualitative approach conducted through phone-based interviews with five selected SMEs' and also supported by desk research and followed by three experts' interviews with professionals working at the ministry of environment in Egypt. The paper finds that SMEs working in the plastic packaging in Egypt were hit significantly by COVID-19. The impacts of COVID 19 on SMEs are classified into operational problems and financial problems. Regarding operational problems, the number of paid employees and the total number of hours worked by paid employees were reduced by 50%. And in terms of production, clear disruption in the supply chain occurred. Regarding financials, they have limited cash on hand, yet they did not apply for a loan to cover their expenses and preferred to temporarily reduce production. This paper represents one of the first attempts to closely assess the impact of COVID-19 on Egyptian SMEs working in plastic packaging. The assessment considers various aspects including employment, production, supply chain, financials, and the outlook to capture the full potential cost of COVID-19. It also discusses the solid waste plan (2019-2023) and how the government can support the green initiatives related to plastic recycling. The results show that fiscal and monetary measures taken by the Egyptian government were not perceived as the ultimate support desired by SMEs in this specific industry. They wanted more tailored programs addressing their specific needs.
{"title":"Impact of COVID 19 on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Evidence from Egyptian Plastic Packaging Industry","authors":"Dina El Kayaly, Nahla Hazem, I. Fahim","doi":"10.1109/IEEECONF53624.2021.9667962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF53624.2021.9667962","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents the impact of COVID 19 on small- and medium-sized enterprises and the survival initiatives based on the owners' perspectives. The authors focused on plastic packaging small and medium size producers working in Egypt as a case study. The study applies qualitative approach conducted through phone-based interviews with five selected SMEs' and also supported by desk research and followed by three experts' interviews with professionals working at the ministry of environment in Egypt. The paper finds that SMEs working in the plastic packaging in Egypt were hit significantly by COVID-19. The impacts of COVID 19 on SMEs are classified into operational problems and financial problems. Regarding operational problems, the number of paid employees and the total number of hours worked by paid employees were reduced by 50%. And in terms of production, clear disruption in the supply chain occurred. Regarding financials, they have limited cash on hand, yet they did not apply for a loan to cover their expenses and preferred to temporarily reduce production. This paper represents one of the first attempts to closely assess the impact of COVID-19 on Egyptian SMEs working in plastic packaging. The assessment considers various aspects including employment, production, supply chain, financials, and the outlook to capture the full potential cost of COVID-19. It also discusses the solid waste plan (2019-2023) and how the government can support the green initiatives related to plastic recycling. The results show that fiscal and monetary measures taken by the Egyptian government were not perceived as the ultimate support desired by SMEs in this specific industry. They wanted more tailored programs addressing their specific needs.","PeriodicalId":389608,"journal":{"name":"2021 Third International Sustainability and Resilience Conference: Climate Change","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114253511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-15DOI: 10.1109/IEEECONF53624.2021.9668035
M. Zeshan, Muhammad Raza Ul Mustafa, Hifsa Khurshid
Barren steep slopes in a watershed and along a roadside, such as embankments, cause degradation of top layer of soil surface. This triggers to expose sub-surface layers of soil, making them fragile for further potential deterioration and ultimately increasing sediment detachment from the surfaces causing silting, and sedimentation in rivers and waterbodies. This process is considered as the major cause of soil erosion which badly affects the quality of water and sustainability of the surrounding waterbodies. This study conducted a laboratory-scale investigation to assess performance of various land covers for reduction of turbidity and suspended solids from a soil surface in response to various rainfall intensities and slope angles. The investigation was performed on five different soil surface covers such as vegetation, coir, polyester, and palm geotextiles (partially & fully covered). The study was conducted under two variable conditions: (i) slope variation: mild and steep slopes viz., 30° and 45° and (ii) rainfall variation: average and severe rainfall intensities viz., 40 and 60 mm/hr. The study examined suspended solids and turbidity in surface runoff based on the aforementioned climatic conditions. The results showed a significant difference in performance of the geotextile materials for controlling suspended solids and turbidity. Overall, the results indicated that palm geotextile was most effective in reducing turbidity (~95%) and suspended solids (84%) as compared to other surface covers under same climatic conditions.
{"title":"Laboratory scale study on assessment of various geotextile materials for reduction of sediments from a soil surface","authors":"M. Zeshan, Muhammad Raza Ul Mustafa, Hifsa Khurshid","doi":"10.1109/IEEECONF53624.2021.9668035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF53624.2021.9668035","url":null,"abstract":"Barren steep slopes in a watershed and along a roadside, such as embankments, cause degradation of top layer of soil surface. This triggers to expose sub-surface layers of soil, making them fragile for further potential deterioration and ultimately increasing sediment detachment from the surfaces causing silting, and sedimentation in rivers and waterbodies. This process is considered as the major cause of soil erosion which badly affects the quality of water and sustainability of the surrounding waterbodies. This study conducted a laboratory-scale investigation to assess performance of various land covers for reduction of turbidity and suspended solids from a soil surface in response to various rainfall intensities and slope angles. The investigation was performed on five different soil surface covers such as vegetation, coir, polyester, and palm geotextiles (partially & fully covered). The study was conducted under two variable conditions: (i) slope variation: mild and steep slopes viz., 30° and 45° and (ii) rainfall variation: average and severe rainfall intensities viz., 40 and 60 mm/hr. The study examined suspended solids and turbidity in surface runoff based on the aforementioned climatic conditions. The results showed a significant difference in performance of the geotextile materials for controlling suspended solids and turbidity. Overall, the results indicated that palm geotextile was most effective in reducing turbidity (~95%) and suspended solids (84%) as compared to other surface covers under same climatic conditions.","PeriodicalId":389608,"journal":{"name":"2021 Third International Sustainability and Resilience Conference: Climate Change","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117003839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-15DOI: 10.1109/IEEECONF53624.2021.9668156
Luã Francisco Rangel Carneiro, Yan Jeronymo Bento de Oliveira, Pedro V. Murga, Giovanna R. Consulmagnos, Karoline V. Figueiredo, A. Haddad
―The Building Information Modeling (BIM) methodology applied to Facility Management (FM) has proven to be a great facilitator for professionals. However, this integration is still a little-explored topic in the construction sector. This is because there is still a significant obstacle in construction related to interoperability between systems, making it difficult to centralize information related to the building's operational phase. Thus, the application of BIM for FM is still experimental, with few practical studies on this subject being presented in the literature. In this context, this article aims to introduce a new tool called BIMBoard: a new way to present data exported from BIM projects, with practicality, speed, and efficiency, allowing all the stakeholders to access information and reporting of a building. In its first version, the BIMBoard tool enables practitioners to generate work orders for a particular element, centralizing data and benefiting the decision-making process during the building's operation phase. The future direction of this study is to add more capabilities to BIMBoard, connecting the program to the internet, thus allowing to extract information that is not possible only with BIM-based software.
{"title":"BIM Methodology applied to Facility Management: development of an integrated tool to benefit the building operation","authors":"Luã Francisco Rangel Carneiro, Yan Jeronymo Bento de Oliveira, Pedro V. Murga, Giovanna R. Consulmagnos, Karoline V. Figueiredo, A. Haddad","doi":"10.1109/IEEECONF53624.2021.9668156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF53624.2021.9668156","url":null,"abstract":"―The Building Information Modeling (BIM) methodology applied to Facility Management (FM) has proven to be a great facilitator for professionals. However, this integration is still a little-explored topic in the construction sector. This is because there is still a significant obstacle in construction related to interoperability between systems, making it difficult to centralize information related to the building's operational phase. Thus, the application of BIM for FM is still experimental, with few practical studies on this subject being presented in the literature. In this context, this article aims to introduce a new tool called BIMBoard: a new way to present data exported from BIM projects, with practicality, speed, and efficiency, allowing all the stakeholders to access information and reporting of a building. In its first version, the BIMBoard tool enables practitioners to generate work orders for a particular element, centralizing data and benefiting the decision-making process during the building's operation phase. The future direction of this study is to add more capabilities to BIMBoard, connecting the program to the internet, thus allowing to extract information that is not possible only with BIM-based software.","PeriodicalId":389608,"journal":{"name":"2021 Third International Sustainability and Resilience Conference: Climate Change","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128667145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-15DOI: 10.1109/IEEECONF53624.2021.9668137
L. Yuan, Muhammad Ehsan Rana, Qusay Al Maatouk
Electronic Health Record (EHR) is one of the most common ways to represent patients' medical information digitally. It contains the patients' medical data such as medical history, diagnoses, medication, treatment plans, allergies, and much more medical-related information. However, medical data stored through this method is often centralized and is vulnerable to attacks. Hence its integrity and various aspects such as lack of transparency are constantly questioned and criticized. The implementation of blockchain, a decentralized technology that is immutable and transparent by nature, is proposed to investigate an alternative solution to these problems. Furthermore, blockchain's inherent implementation of cryptography and its consensus mechanisms allow data to be stored in the blockchain network immutable and transparent. By utilizing such characteristics, medical data can be stored and accessed by the stakeholders without worrying about data tampering. At the same time, the mandatory encryption ensures access is only available to those who are authorized. This paper discusses how medical data can be stored inside the blockchain network to retain the transparency and integrity of medical data.
电子病历(Electronic Health Record, EHR)是数字化表示患者医疗信息最常用的方式之一。它包含患者的医疗数据，如病史、诊断、药物、治疗计划、过敏以及更多与医疗相关的信息。然而，通过这种方法存储的医疗数据往往是集中的，容易受到攻击。因此，它的完整性和缺乏透明度等各个方面不断受到质疑和批评。区块链是一种本质上不可变和透明的去中心化技术，旨在研究这些问题的替代解决方案。此外，区块链固有的密码学实现及其共识机制允许数据不可变且透明地存储在区块链网络中。通过利用这些特征，医疗数据可以被利益相关者存储和访问，而不必担心数据被篡改。同时，强制加密确保只有获得授权的人才能访问。本文讨论了如何在区块链网络中存储医疗数据，以保持医疗数据的透明度和完整性。
{"title":"Enhancing Medical Data Transparency and Integrity with Blockchain Based Implementation","authors":"L. Yuan, Muhammad Ehsan Rana, Qusay Al Maatouk","doi":"10.1109/IEEECONF53624.2021.9668137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF53624.2021.9668137","url":null,"abstract":"Electronic Health Record (EHR) is one of the most common ways to represent patients' medical information digitally. It contains the patients' medical data such as medical history, diagnoses, medication, treatment plans, allergies, and much more medical-related information. However, medical data stored through this method is often centralized and is vulnerable to attacks. Hence its integrity and various aspects such as lack of transparency are constantly questioned and criticized. The implementation of blockchain, a decentralized technology that is immutable and transparent by nature, is proposed to investigate an alternative solution to these problems. Furthermore, blockchain's inherent implementation of cryptography and its consensus mechanisms allow data to be stored in the blockchain network immutable and transparent. By utilizing such characteristics, medical data can be stored and accessed by the stakeholders without worrying about data tampering. At the same time, the mandatory encryption ensures access is only available to those who are authorized. This paper discusses how medical data can be stored inside the blockchain network to retain the transparency and integrity of medical data.","PeriodicalId":389608,"journal":{"name":"2021 Third International Sustainability and Resilience Conference: Climate Change","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130312285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-15DOI: 10.1109/IEEECONF53624.2021.9668151
Shagun Garg, Prakharima Singh, Neha Singh
Sentiment analysis, is often called opinion mining. It is the process of studying people's feelings or opinions based on text data. Sentiment analysis plays an important role in the research area of text mining. It identifies the sentiment or opinion of each person with respect to specific events. For this process, we need to pass a document or text which can be analysed and generates a system or model which represents a summarized form of opinion of a given document. Sentiment analysis is useful for review of movies, products, customer services, opinion about any event etc. This helps us to make decisions regarding a specific item or service, whether it is bad or good or preferred or not preferred. It can be useful in order to identify the opinion of an individual or about any event or person and also finds polarity of text whether positive, negative or neutral. In this, we have discussed the various methods and techniques of sentimental analysis and the areas which are using this technique based on some specific data.
{"title":"Sentimental Analysis, Technology and Application","authors":"Shagun Garg, Prakharima Singh, Neha Singh","doi":"10.1109/IEEECONF53624.2021.9668151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF53624.2021.9668151","url":null,"abstract":"Sentiment analysis, is often called opinion mining. It is the process of studying people's feelings or opinions based on text data. Sentiment analysis plays an important role in the research area of text mining. It identifies the sentiment or opinion of each person with respect to specific events. For this process, we need to pass a document or text which can be analysed and generates a system or model which represents a summarized form of opinion of a given document. Sentiment analysis is useful for review of movies, products, customer services, opinion about any event etc. This helps us to make decisions regarding a specific item or service, whether it is bad or good or preferred or not preferred. It can be useful in order to identify the opinion of an individual or about any event or person and also finds polarity of text whether positive, negative or neutral. In this, we have discussed the various methods and techniques of sentimental analysis and the areas which are using this technique based on some specific data.","PeriodicalId":389608,"journal":{"name":"2021 Third International Sustainability and Resilience Conference: Climate Change","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130680264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-15DOI: 10.1109/IEEECONF53624.2021.9667958
H. Abbas, Sara Ghanem, A. Abahussain
Air pollution has been identified as one of the top priorities in every region around the globe. Particulate matter is the most important pollutant from a global public health perspective. Bahrain was ranked the 7th most polluted country in the world and the first in the Middle East with an annual average of PM2.5 much higher than the WHO recommended guidelines. The procedure included the use of previous relevant studies related to Bahrain. Integrated Environmental Assessment is performed for the PM2.5 in Bahrain by applying the Drivers, Pressures, State, Impact and Responses (DPSIR) framework. PM2.5 levels in Bahrain are exceeding its own national standards for a significant amount of time; this is primarily reflected on human health and the elevated prevalence of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). Results revealed that drivers include population growth, economic development, urbanization and climate change, while the pressure is the emission of PM2.5 due to anthropogenic factors such as industry, energy production and land reclamation, as well as transboundary dust as a natural factor. Bahrain has taken various measures to minimize air pollution including the issuance of legislations and establishing the air quality monitoring program. Some measures were found to be less effective, for which improvements and more strict actions are required.
{"title":"Assessing PM2.5 in Bahrain From the DPSIR Framework Perspective","authors":"H. Abbas, Sara Ghanem, A. Abahussain","doi":"10.1109/IEEECONF53624.2021.9667958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF53624.2021.9667958","url":null,"abstract":"Air pollution has been identified as one of the top priorities in every region around the globe. Particulate matter is the most important pollutant from a global public health perspective. Bahrain was ranked the 7th most polluted country in the world and the first in the Middle East with an annual average of PM2.5 much higher than the WHO recommended guidelines. The procedure included the use of previous relevant studies related to Bahrain. Integrated Environmental Assessment is performed for the PM2.5 in Bahrain by applying the Drivers, Pressures, State, Impact and Responses (DPSIR) framework. PM2.5 levels in Bahrain are exceeding its own national standards for a significant amount of time; this is primarily reflected on human health and the elevated prevalence of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). Results revealed that drivers include population growth, economic development, urbanization and climate change, while the pressure is the emission of PM2.5 due to anthropogenic factors such as industry, energy production and land reclamation, as well as transboundary dust as a natural factor. Bahrain has taken various measures to minimize air pollution including the issuance of legislations and establishing the air quality monitoring program. Some measures were found to be less effective, for which improvements and more strict actions are required.","PeriodicalId":389608,"journal":{"name":"2021 Third International Sustainability and Resilience Conference: Climate Change","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128024922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-15DOI: 10.1109/IEEECONF53624.2021.9668172
K. Alzubi, W. Alaloul, Marsail Al Salaheen, A. H. Qureshi, M. A. Musarat, A. O. Baarimah
Comparing to other sectors, the construction sector suffers from low productivity, and it is not improving over time due to the unique nature of construction projects. It is believed that construction productivity cannot be improved without efficient monitoring and measuring, and this is crucial for project success. There are many limitations for the traditional construction productivity monitoring practices like time and cost consuming and error-prone. Although a lot of studies have been implemented to eliminate these limitations, a gap still exists in the automated monitoring of construction productivity. This study proposes an automated monitoring model for indoor productivity recognition in construction projects. The model will provide an instant evaluation of the project productivity which will enhance the optimum utilization of the project resources. The proposed model will be developed by first generating a baseline for the activities state which will be represented as baseline state model. Then the as-built model will be generated. Preliminary experimentation was performed on selected images where the number of tiles and bricks was obtained. The experimentation was performed using Open-Source Computer Vision Library (OpenCV). Preliminary results depict that by using the proposed model the automated monitoring of productivity is achievable. Although, there is a need of dedicated efforts for improvement and development of technique for more effective and efficient results.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-15DOI: 10.1109/IEEECONF53624.2021.9668045
A. O. Baarimah, W. Alaloul, M. S. Liew, Al-Hussein M. H. Al-Aidrous, A. M. Alawag, M. A. Musarat
Due to a variety of issues and inefficiencies during the construction process, construction projects require a substantial amount of money and resources. Controlling the cost is a critical step in ensuring the success of project and increasing its value. Value Engineering (VE) has been gaining increasing attention from stakeholders in construction projects to reduce the overall costs. Building Information Modeling (BIM) may have a great potential to assist in VE from the early stage of project inception as a commonly accepted intelligent technology. Various studies have been undertaken on the integration of BIM and VE to make use of the advantages of this integration and control project cost and optimization. However, there has been no attempt of scientometric analysis to explore the holistic understanding of the current state of integration of BIM and VE research. The purpose of this research is to carry out a bibliometric analysis of the available BIM and VE literature and to provide a picture of the research status from 2007 to September 2021. There were 46 documents extracted from the database of Scopus. VOSviewer tool was used to visualize the literature contained through countries, scientific journals, and keywords. The outcomes showed that “Cost Engineering”, “Earned Value Management”, “Structural Design”, “Decision Making” and “Sustainable Development” were lately risen to prominence as mainstream topics associated with this field and piqued the curiosity of academics, which may represent future research possibilities as well. Furthermore, based on the most keywords frequently utilized, three important research domains linked with BIM and VE have been identified, including “Architectural Design”, “Project Management”, and “Budget Control”. Accordingly, the explanations related to research outcomes, recommendations for future studies have been provided on the integration of BIM and VE.
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