Sepehr AbrishamiUniversity of Portsmouth · School of Civil Engineering and Surveying
Sepehr Abrishami
PhD, MA/MPhil, BSc, AA Dip
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Introduction
I am a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for the MSc Building Information Management (BIM) at University of Portsmouth with a Master in Environmental Design from Welsh School of Architecture (Cardiff University), and PhD (forthcoming) from UCLan.
Currently, I am working on developing an interactive BIM environment that purposefully exploits generative design as an automation method.
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September 2016 - present
September 2016 - present
May 2015 - September 2016
Publications
Publications (56)
: New technological advancements in Architecture-Engineering-Construction (AEC) design has brought the 'level of automation' as a pivotal factor in the success of projects. One of the key debates in 'effective automation' is its congruence throughout the AEC projects. This is currently hampered due to the failures in computational support at the ea...
The integration and automation of the whole design and implementation process has become a pivotal factor in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) projects, especially regarding recent technological developments and emergent drivers in the field. Extant literature has highlighted a series of recurrent problems in process integration, es...
Purpose
Problems relating ostensibly to failures in computational support for the conceptual design stage are well-documented in extant literature. These failures are multifarious and significant, with several deficiencies being acknowledged in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. Whilst acknowledging this, extant literat...
Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) endeavour to revamp AEC project outcomes through a collaborative method of regulating project stakeholders’ goals through creation of a platform that provide early participants involvement and shared risk and rewards. IPD does not include a tender stage to select the optimal bid, therefore, this paper presents a me...
Purpose:
The integration and automation of the whole design and implementation process has become a pivotal factor in construction projects. Problems of process integration, particularly at the conceptual design stage often manifest through a number of significant areas, from: design representation, cognition and translation, through to process fra...
Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is highly recommended to be utilised with Building Information Management, particularly with the BIM level 3 implementation process. Although the literature review highlights that financial management challenges face the proposed integration, these challenges are mainly related to the IPD compensation approach and...
Various applications integrating blockchain with the Internet of Things (IoT) have emerged in recent years. While industries such as automotive have embraced this integration, application in other areas such as construction remains limited. The scientometric analysis is applied to 648 papers, identifying the use of IoT and blockchain in engineering...
The massive number of pavements and buildings coupled with the limited inspection resources, both monetary and human, to detect distresses and recommend maintenance actions lead to rapid deterioration, decreased service life, lower level of service and increased community disruption. Therefore, this chapter aims at providing (1) a state-of-the-art...
This chapter proposes a novel interconnected financial management system based on Hyperledger fabric and chaincode solutions to address endemic problems with financial management practices adopted within construction projects. Increasingly complex construction projects have necessitated a corresponding evolvement of financial management tools and s...
The digital construction transformation requires utilising emerging digital technology such as deep learning to automate implementing tasks. Therefore, this article evaluates the current state of utilising deep learning in the construction management tasks to enable researchers to determine the capabilities of current solutions and find research ga...
Testing the capabilities/accuracies of four deep learning pre-trained CNN models to detect and classify types of highway cracks and developing a new CNN model to maximise the accuracy at different learning rates. a sample of 4,663 images of highway cracks were collected and classified into three categories of cracks, namely, vertical cracks’, ‘hori...
Extant literature accentuates the potential of blockchain in the Architectural, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry and its prospective to be integrated into the construction projects to automate financial transactions; for better transparency, security, and control. Existing research highlights that permissioned blockchain can work as a p...
Integrating Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is highly recommended for better project delivery. Although there is a methodology for this integration, the BIM requires some improvements to foster the adoption of IPD. This chapter presents an innovative way to support the 4D BIM automation/optimisation within...
Purpose
The emergence of new digital technologies in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution presents a turning point that could change the fate of the traditional ways of designing, build and manage asset data. Disruptive technologies such as Blockchain and theInternet of things (IoT) are one of the main pillars that are driving this revolutio...
This book provides in-depth results and case studies in innovation from actual work undertaken in collaboration with industry partners in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC). Scientific advances and innovative technologies in the sector are key to shaping the changes emerging as a result of Industry 4.0. Mainstream Building Informatio...
The main goal of this study is to explore the adoption of a design for manufacturing and assembly (DfMA) and building information management (BIM) approach during the whole lifecycle of assets. This approach aims to tackle issues inherent in the design of traditional construction methods, such as low productivity and quality, poor predictability an...
Purpose
At the end of a building’s lifecycle, there are several limitations to the decision-making process (DMP). There is a lack of data available from the building’s history, the difficulty in assessing the condition of a building and the variety of stakeholders’ needs that have to be satisfied. The purpose of this paper is to answer the question...
Construction planning and scheduling are vital to ensure delivering the project according to the agreed completion date. With the increasing in adopting technology in construction, the construction planning and scheduling process has been improved. One of these technologies is the 4D Building Information Modelling (BIM), which can be employed to im...
Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is a mode of project procurement recognised as facilitating superior project performance. However, this success is contingent on effective cost management practices that share cost data with all project stakeholders in an accurate, timely and transparent manner. Despite an extensive literature on aspects of cost ma...
Purpose
In this study, a critical literature review was utilized in order to provide a clear review of the relevant existing studies. The literature was analyzed using the meta-synthesis technique to evaluate and integrate the findings in a single context.
Design/methodology/approach
Digital transformation in construction requires employing a wide...
Despite the unprecedented permeation of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and collaboration platforms, architects and structural engineers, for the most part, act as separate entities. That is, linking architectural models with those of structural engineers remains labour-intensive and cumbersome; structural engineers can generate few alternativ...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to determine whether the implementation of building information modelling (BIM) concepts of the various processes involved in building surveying practice can lead to a reduction in waste. In turn leading to a synergy between BIM functionalities and lean production concepts.
Design/methodology/approach
To verify...
Purpose
Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is highly recommended to be utilised with Building Information Management (BIM), specifically, with BIM level-3 implementation process. Extant literature highlights the financial management challenges facing the proposed integration. These challenges are mainly related to the IPD compensation and the conve...
Purpose
The amalgamation of Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and Building Information Modelling (BIM) is highly recommended for successful project delivery. However, IPD lacks an accurate cost estimation methodology at the 'front-end' of projects, when little project information is available. The current study tackles this issue, through presenti...
Purpose – The paper aims to leverage the importance of the integrated automatic structural design for tall
buildings at the early stage. It proposes to use an automatic prototype to perform the structural design,
analysis and optimisation in a building information modelling (BIM)-based platform. This process starts with
extracting the required info...
Purpose: The integration of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is highly recommended for better project delivery. Although there is a methodology for this integration, however, the BIM requires some improvements to foster the adoption of IPD. This paper presents an innovative way to support the 4D BIM automat...
Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is highly recommended to be utilised with Building Information Management, particularly, with BIM level 3 implementation process. The literature review survey highlights that there are financial management challenges that face the proposed integration, these challenges are mainly related to the IPD compensation app...
Extant literature accentuates the potential of blockchain in the Architectural, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry, and its prospective to be integrated into the construction projects to automate financial transactions; for better transparency, security, and controlling. Existing research highlights that permissioned blockchain can work a...
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The Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) in integration with Building Information Modelling/Management (BIM) is an optimal approach for delivering construction projects. This is, however fraught with complications, due to the inability of current cost management practices to determine fair risk/reward ratio in IPD arrangements. Previous research has e...
Purpose – The built environment is a major source of carbon emissions. However, 80 per cent of the damage arises through the operational phase of a building’s life. Office buildings are the most significant building type in terms of emission-reduction potential. Yet, little research has been undertaken to examine the barriers faced
by building oper...
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Extant literature extensively articulates the advantages of using remotely piloted aircrafts (RPAs) in a myriad of construction activities. Yet, the barriers that hinder their wider adoption on construction projects have received scant academic attention. This study aims at addressing this gap in the literature.
--Design/methodology/app...
![Fig. 3 Modelling civil engineering design elements in BIM [5]](profile/Tofigh-Hamidavi-2/publication/327906903/figure/fig2/AS:675430956802068@1538046697833/Modelling-civil-engineering-design-elements-in-BIM-5_Q320.jpg)
Structural design and analysis is an important and
time-consuming process, particularly at the conceptual design stage.
Decisions made at this stage can have an enormous effect on the
entire project, as it becomes ever costlier and more difficult to alter
the choices made early on in the construction process. Hence,
optimisation of the early stages...
The collaboration and integration between all building information management (BIM) processes and tasks are necessary to ensure that all project objectives can be delivered. The literature review has been used to explore the state of the art BIM technologies to manage construction materials as well as the challenges which have faced the constructio...
The integration and automation of the whole design and implementation process has become a pivotal factor in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) projects, especially regarding recent technological developments and emergent drivers in the field. Extant literature has highlighted a series of recurrent problems in process integration, es...
This paper focuses on the potential for developing an interactive Virtual Reality (VR) environment that exploits new concepts such as parametric design and genetic algorithm as methods of computational architecture through the conceptual design process. Existing tools and decision support mechanisms are investigated as part of this process. The pro...
Projects
Projects (3)
Introducing automation to the early stage of the structural design has several advantages such as improves collaboration and communication with other areas and reduces personal errors and mistakes. The main focus of this project is the early stage of the structural design, therefore, costly and difficult changes at the lateral stages will be greatly reduced. Moreover, automation helps the engineers to consider more alternative models for the same structure and choose from a wide range of optimised models. The other advantage of this project is that all the structural models are automatically linked to the architectural model, hence any change at the architectural model will be considered in the structural models automatically.
