Safety management of construction projects using building information modeling
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Date
2022
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UMT.Lahore
Abstract
With the increasing rate of urbanization in recent decades, there has been an
acceleration in the development of the construction industry as a result of which there
are numerous safety risks associated with it. Construction is rated as one of the most
dangerous industries in the world with the major causes of accidents are being hit by an
item, falling, electricity, exposed to fire, struck by a moving object. Building fires are
by far the most widely recognized type of fire, and the majority of fires happen during
building maintenance and operation. Fire assessment should be performed to minimize
fire risk and increase preventative capabilities. To do as such, Building information
modelling (BIM) is a useful tool in three-dimensional visualization and statistical
information storage for improvement of construction planning and maintenance. This
specific study creates a BIM-based model to help with building fire safety management.
The model was divided into three modules (i) BIM-based facility design, (ii) Fire safety
management in the building through various devices and (iii) Occupant evacuation
evaluation. The proposed study aims to conduct several evacuation and fire simulations
using a BIM-based model through the application of FDS and pathfinder. An
experimental implementation was carried out to validate the proposed framework,
which confirmed the benefits of using BIM in providing a platform for conducting
simulation design and annotating simulation results of potentially dangerous fire zones,
appropriate and efficient escape routes, Depicting fire growth using the FDS. As an
outcome, the simulation outputs may be utilized to check the Rset and Aset time for
safe occupant’s evacuation. The suggested framework will help in building fire safety
management by allowing for the reduction of injuries/fatalities as well as property
damage