A Virtual Construction Environment for preconstruction planning

Automation in Construction

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 139-154

  Waly, Ahmed F ^a   Thabet, Walid Y ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

Author keywords

3D modeling; Constructability; Planning; Virtual reality and virtual environments

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HEURISTIC METHODS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PLANNING; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

VIRTUAL CONSTRUCTION ENVIRONMENT (VCE);

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

EID: 0037332769     PISSN: 09265805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-5805(02)00047-X     Document Type: Article

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