Masoud Gheisari, construction management assistant professor, was recently awarded the Best Conference Paper-Honorable Mention Award for the 52nd Annual International Conference of the Associated Schools of Construction for his paper titled “An Augmented Panoramic Environment to Access Building Information on a Construction Site.”
This paper introduces a workflow to create augmented panoramas of construction job sites as a location-independent virtual reality experience, which is not significantly different from a pure-augmented-reality setting. The proposed environment uses a panorama of a construction job site, and superimposes the building information models on it, to provide construction personnel with an interactive interface to access their required information. Location-independency, interactivity and providing immersive and photo-realistic experiences are the most important features of the proposed augmented panoramic environment.