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Incorporation of Health and Safety into Building Information Modelling through Hazard integration system

This dissertation presents the development of the Hazard integration system (System). The System was developed with a goal to reduce the number of injuries and fatalities and to improve the Health and Safety (H&S) process in the construction industry. It does so by leveraging the potential of innovative technologies, namely Building Information Modelling (BIM), to enable automated hazard identification through combining the data rich BIM models with a specially developed Construction hazards database. The basic premise of the System is that all elements of the BIM model, which represent real elements of the constructed building, are constructed from a known and finite number of individual construction activities. Those construction activities are performed by construction workers and generate construction hazards while they are performed. The hazards, in turn, potentially effect the workers performing the construction activities. Through the literature review it was discovered that a majority of research is focused on the construction phase of the project and on one project type, specifally buildings. Furthermore, an overwhelming proportion is focused on the industry and project level with a relatively small focus on activity and task levels. Finally, of those research focusing on the activity level, most are focused on identifying specific hazards, such as fall hazards, congestion or collision hazards. This research contributes to the field of construction Health and Safety by developing a conceptually universal hazard identification methodology. The developed concept can be applied to identify hazards generated by performing construction activities on any building element modellable in BIM.

Construction Health and Safety ; Hazard integration system ; BIM ; Automated hazard identification ; Construction hazards database

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