Vishal Singh

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore | IISC · Design and Manufacturing (DM)

Most complex projects in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industries involve multi-disciplinary collaboration and the exchange of large building data set. Traditionally, the collaboration efforts across the disciplines have been based on the frequent exchange of 2D drawings and documents. However, during the past decade, the wi...

Design creativity techniques encourage divergent thinking. But how well do the existing generative design techniques support this requirement? How can these general techniques be augmented for supporting design exploration and creativity? This paper investigates these questions through a review of five different generative design techniques used in...

Recent technological developments and advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have enabled sophisticated capabilities to be a part of Digital Twin (DT), virtually making it possible to introduce automation into all aspects of work processes. Given these possibilities that DT can offer, practitioners are facing increasingly difficult decisions rega...

Recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) provide unprecedented automation opportunities in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. However, despite the enthusiasm regarding the use of AI, 85% of current big data projects fail. One of the main reasons for AI project failures in the AEC industry is the disconnect be...

Layout design is a complex problem requiring significant expertise and considerable effort. Digital tools and Generative Design (GD) concepts provide opportunities for improving and automating the layout design process. However, the adoption of GD concepts in practice still needs to be improved. Hence, case studies where GD has been used in practic...

Board games have long been a source of entertainment, familiarising people with elements like cards, boards, rewards, risks, and avatars. This early exposure helps individuals easily understand game-based activities later in life. Beyond entertainment, board games serve educational purposes, engaging mature participants and conveying serious themes...

This paper presents a methodological approach to designing agent-based models (ABMs), emphasizing the step-by-step design process that supports model development. Using real estate investment dynamics in urban environments as a case study, the paper outlines a framework for developing an ABM. The design guidelines provided are informed by literatur...

Lean principles are widely recognized for reducing waste, increasing efficiency, and improving outcomes across industries. However, the building permit process in urban construction remains inefficient, leading to delays, higher costs, and burdensome operational bottlenecks. This research aims to apply lean principles to improve the permit system,...

The research explores how lifecycle modularity and delayed differentiation can change the way we build and design spaces. Lifecycle modularity means incorporating modular elements at every stage of a building's life, making it more adaptable and sustainable. Through a review of existing studies, the re-search identifies the main challenges and oppo...

The concept of volumetric spaces has evolved in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) sector, ranging from traditional onsite built spaces to modern modular houses and portable architecture. Despite this diversity, there lacks a comprehensive framework to analyze volumetric space products across dimensions. This paper presents a con...

Real estate asset management demands specialized skills and knowledge for success, even though a large section of society makes real estate investment decisions at one point or the other. However, the traditional learning methods in real estate often lack adequate experiential and immersive learning scenarios that are observable in competitive real...

This research examines the possibilities of project reporting and broadcasting to improve situational awareness and experiential learning in academic settings. Drawing inspiration from the media industry's use of news reporting to create general situation awareness, this work initially aimed to improve the situation awareness of project teams in Ar...

The recent and significant change in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry is the increasing use of building information management (BIM) tools in design and how the generated digital data are consumed. Although designers have primarily published blueprints and model files, multiple parties are now involved in producing dif...

The Indian subcontinent is vulnerable to tropical cyclones and flood-related events annually. Such disasters severely affect the livelihood of lakhs of people, causing huge losses to the national economy, infrastructure, built environment and other resources. In the Disaster Management (DM) cycle, disaster relief shelters play a vital role in the r...

The paper proposes a novel framework for understanding and implementing persuasive design tools during the design process. The framework seeks to help designers use persuasion in designing products and services by incorporating persuasive tools and behavioral triggers. While there are multiple theoretical approaches, models, and tools for persuasio...

Recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) provide unprecedented automation opportunities in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. However, despite the enthusiasm regarding the use of AI, 85% of current big data projects fail. One of the main reasons for AI project failures in the AEC industry is the disconnect be...

This paper reports the preliminary findings from ongoing research on the potential role of storytelling as an analytical framework in assessing a research project. It is noted that most existing research on storytelling in science is focused on science communication. There is limited research on storytelling as an analytical tool for analyzing and...

use-case scenarios, including homes, hospitals, workplaces, and recreation. Though the area of Social Robotics has gained traction in recent years, the majority of the studies so far have studied single-human and single-robot interaction. In comparison, Social Robots are increasingly being placed in human teams, likely affecting team dynamics. On t...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, several instances of innovation were reported in construction and other sectors, consistent with previously noted spikes in innovation activities during crises and environmental perturbations. Yet the behavioural mechanisms and factors leading to changes in the innovation behaviour of actors under environmental perturb...

This paper presents a novel viewpoint on modular construction, seeking to create new opportunities to transform the built environment ecosystem by taking a product lifecycle and systems perspective. Based on a review of the challenges with modular construction and the recent social trends, it is proposed that the modular construction approach and m...

Digital Twin (DT) technology is far from being comprehensive and mature, resulting in their piecemeal implementation in practice where some functions are automated by DTs, and others are still performed by humans. This piecemeal implementation of DTs often leaves practitioners wondering what roles (or functions) to allocate to DTs in a work system,...

The paper proposes a novel framework for understanding and implementing persuasive design tools during the design process. The framework seeks to help designers use persuasion in designing products and services by incorporating persuasive tools and behavioral triggers. While there are multiple theoretical approaches, models, and tools for persuasio...

Digital Twin (DT) technology is far from being comprehensive and mature, resulting in their piecemeal implementation in practice where some functions are automated by DTs, and others are still performed by humans. This piecemeal implementation of DTs often leaves practitioners wondering what roles (or functions) to allocate to DTs in a work system,...

This research builds on two primary observations. First, facilities management personnel lack expertise in building information modelling (BIM) and 3D software. Second, they often need access only to a small subset of the facility data and 3D models, rather than the full, monolithic BIM of the whole facility. These interrelated issues are addressed...

This research builds on two primary observations. First, facilities management personnel lack expertise in building information modelling (BIM) and 3D software. Second, they often need access only to a small subset of the facility data and 3D models, rather than the full, monolithic BIM of the whole facility. These interrelated issues are addressed...

This research builds on two primary observations. First, Facilities Management personnel lack expertise in Building Information Modelling (BIM) and 3D software. Second, they often need access only to a small subset of the facility data and 3D models, rather than the full, monolithic BIM of the whole facility. These interrelated issues are addressed...

Despite the Digital Twin (DT) concept being in the industry for a long time, it remains ambiguous, unable to differentiate itself from information models, general computing, and simulation technologies. Part of this confusion stems from previous studies overlooking the DT’s bidirectional nature, that enables the shift of agency (delegating control)...

In the construction industry, digitalisation has led to increasing efforts to improve construction management using digital visual management (VM) devices. Although the amount of research on digital VM (DVM) in the design phase and in the management of construction sites has also increased, its implementation during the production phase and by cons...

Despite the Digital Twin (DT) concept being in the industry for a long time, it remains ambiguous, unable to differentiate itself from information models, general computing, and simulation technologies. Part of this confusion stems from previous studies overlooking the DT's bidirectional nature, that enables the shift of agency (delegating control)...

Recent technological developments and advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have enabled sophisticated capabilities to be a part of Digital Twin (DT), virtually making it possible to introduce automation into all aspects of work processes. Given these possibilities that DT can offer, practitioners are facing increasingly difficult decisions rega...

Based on an ethnographic action research study for a Digital Twin (DT) deployment on an automated highway maintenance project, this paper reports some of the stumbling blocks that practitioners face while deploying a DT in practice. At the outset, the scope of the case study was broadly defined in terms of digitalization, and software development a...

Based on an ethnographic action research study for a Digital Twin (DT) deployment on an automated highway maintenance project, this paper reports some of the stumbling blocks that practitioners face while deploying a DT in practice. At the outset, the scope of the case study was broadly defined in terms of digitalization, and software development a...

Structure sharing (SS) and multi-mode integration (MMI) are types of sharing in designs that help in resource effectiveness. This research explores their prevalence in successful designs. To do this: (a) 5 award-winning designs from International Design Excellence Awards are chosen, information of these designs is used to construct their Function-M...

This paper presents preliminary results from an empirical study on the effects of environmental perturbation (an unexpected, disruptive, social or economic event) as the pandemic-driven disruptions, on attitude towards innovation. The results based on a survey with 266 construction professionals from multiple countries demonstrate that such perturb...

Purpose With the ongoing digitalization of the construction industry (CI), situational awareness (SA) is becoming increasingly important in construction management. The purpose of this article is to identify the requirements of SA system development in the CI and to provide recommendations for the future development of SA systems. Design/methodolo...

Architectural Democracy is an ongoing doctoral research at Aalto University proposing a conceptual framework for a structured exploration of the relationship between Architecture (exemplified as the life cycle of a building) and Democracy (defined here as the assurance of all person's rights and freedoms, that every person can access information an...

Multifunctional designs such as the Swiss army knife, sofa-cum-bed and smartphones are commonplace, but there is limited research to assist designers in determining what factors to consider while designing such products. Therefore, findings from a survey-based empirical study that seeks to understand how potential users perceive the desirability of...

The discussions in online groups and communities that share a common identity and interest can provide useful insights into various attributes and behaviors of the group as well as their beliefs and thinking. Such discussions may also be useful to make preliminary conjectures and hypotheses about the wider community they identify with. Accordingly,...

The discussions in online groups and communities that share a common identity and interest can provide useful insights into various attributes and behaviors of the group as well as their beliefs and thinking. Such discussions may also be useful to make preliminary conjectures and hypotheses about the wider community they identify with. Accordingly,...

Multifunctional designs such as the Swiss army knife, sofa-cum-bed, smartphones, etc. are commonplace, but there is limited research to assist designers in determining what factors to consider while designing such products. Therefore, findings from a survey-based empirical study that seeks to understand how potential users perceive the desirability...

Automatic reality capture and monitoring of construction sites can reduce costs, accelerate timelines and improve quality in construction projects. Recently, automatic close-range capture of the state of large construction sites has become possible through crane and drone-mounted cameras, which results in sizeable, noisy, multi-building as-built po...

This article proposes pathways towards developing BIM thinking as a set of objectives and characteristics that allow revisiting the grounds and principles on which one can reason about BIM, irrespective of the specific applications or tools. The article looks into questions such as– Why do we need BIM thinking, and why now? What should we look for...

A framework to assess the transactions of distributed Content Knowledge Resources (CKRs) in construction projects is presented, based on the concept of Transactive Memory Systems (TMS), which deals with encoding, storage, retrieval and update of knowledge across distributed sources. CKRs include all kinds of data, information and knowledge availabl...

Industry 4.0 aims to leverage the connected capabilities and intelligence of distributed socio-technical systems including people, computer aided design and engineering tools, information systems and sensor networks, robotics and advanced manufacturing, etc to improve productivity, quality, flexibility, safety and sustainability across manufacturin...

This article proposes pathways towards developing BIM thinking as a set of objectives and characteristics that allow revisiting the grounds and principles on which one can reason about BIM, irrespective of the specific applications or tools. The article looks into questions such as– Why do we need BIM thinking, and why now? What should we look for...

Design and design thinking are increasingly being taught across several disciplines—ranging from arts, architecture, and technology and engineering to business schools—where expertise plays a central role. A substantial corpus of literature on research in regard to design expert and design expertise has accumulated in the last decades. However, in...

This paper presents the concept for the integration of Indoor Positioning System (IPS) and Building Information Model (BIM), and hypothesizes about the possible benefits of this integration to situational awareness and visual management in construction projects. Literature review shows that the volume and quality of data enabling situational awaren...

The dynamics of design teams play a critical role in product development, mainly in the early phases of the process. This paper presents a conceptual framework of a computational model about how cognitive and social features of a design team affect the quality of the produced design outcomes. The framework is based on various cognitive and social t...

While the adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM) is becoming more widespread, the industry is still seeking tools for measuring and quantifying the benefits of BIM. There are only few studies containing empirical evidence derived from case studies. Furthermore, most of these case studies measure the perception of stakeholders and do not ne...

This paper takes the first steps towards building a theoretical and conceptual approach for creative lean design in the construction sector. The paper argues the need to advance the current lean design management approaches in construction by drawing upon some of the established theoretical and conceptual models in creative engineering design and d...

Until now, the usage and usability factors associated with AEC-FM standards has remained largely overlooked. This oversight could be a potential factor in the adoption rates as well as the effective utilization of advanced digital solutions in the AEC-FM industry. Therefore, this research aims to address this gap in understanding and enhancing the...

Purpose: This position paper critics the commonly projected visions on the future of built environment, focusing on transformative research. The primary question is, will the construction sector be able to make the projected transformative leap even if the history of technology adoption in construction suggests otherwise? And, what role can academi...

The current approaches in lean construction are primarily production oriented. More recently, there has been greater attention towards what we design, based on approaches such as Target Value Design. Despite these developments, the need for production is taken as the default starting point in the design explorations. On the other hand, new business...

Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools have become a knowledge resource in the Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector. While effective BIM use requires knowledge and skills with the tools, BIM tools can also become a good source of learning about the core domain area e.g. architecture, engineering, etc. However, effective teachin...

Prevention of building-related illnesses and improving indoor air quality has become an emerging research area not only because of the comfort of workers in an office or the quality of the perceived air, but also because it can provide financial benefits to both employees and employers through a potential reduction in prolonged sick leaves. Therefo...

Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools have become a knowledge resource in the Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector. While effective BIM use requires knowledge and skills with the tools, BIM tools can also become a good source of learning about the core domain area e.g. architecture, engineering, etc. However, effective teachin...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the technical features, underlying concepts and implementation details of a novel Building Information Modeling (BIM)-integrated, graph-based platform developed to support BIM for facilities management through a usability driven visual representation of the construction operations building informati...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a reflective assessment on a research project aimed at applying design research methodologies to understand the benefits of building information modelling (BIM) in infrastructure design projects, a context where design research has not been applied adequately. Design/methodology/approach The findings...

While the adoption of building information modelling (BIM) is becoming more widespread, the industry is still seeking tools for measuring and quantifying the benefits of BIM. There are only few studies containing empirical evidence derived from case studies. Furthermore, most of these case studies measure the perception of stakeholders and do not n...

Building Information Modelling (BIM) tools and processes are increasingly adopted and implemented in the construction industry. Consequently, BIM education is considered increasingly important in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) education. While most of the research and literature on BIM education in engineering studies has focused...

Building Information Modelling (BIM) tools and processes are increasingly adopted and implemented in the construction industry. Consequently, BIM education is considered increasingly important in Architecture- Engineering and Construction (AEC) education. While most of the research and literature on BIM education in engineering studies has focused...

Building information modelling (BIM), as an object-based tool, has been the buzzword in architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sector in recent years. The buzz has created a lot of promise of an imminent paradigm shift and productivity and lifecycle improvements in the AEC sector and plenty of benefits are cited in the literature. Consequ...

The Architecture Engineering Construction-Facilities Management (AEC/FM) industry is currently plagued with inefficiencies in access and retrieval of relevant information across the various stakeholders and actors, because the vast amount of project related information is not only diverse but the information is also highly fragmented and distribute...

This paper presents theoretical arguments for BIM ecosystem research, based on concepts of coevolution and emergence in a complex network of constituent elements: products, processes, people, technology and policies. Broader trends such as Internet of Things, data analytics, and digital manufacturing are increasingly becoming integral to BIM system...

Construction projects by their very nature, have always involved the cooperation of various disciplines. Typically, construction projects are unique and large, comprising of many phases, requiring major investment and activities that are spread amongst multiple disciplines. Active collaboration and effective teamwork between project participants is...

Constructions Operations Building information exchange (COBie) is a rapidly evolving standard to capture the digital information of facilities. As the building information modeling (BIM) for facilities management (FM) research is gaining greater emphasis, COBie standard is becoming increasingly central to the discussion. COBie can be delivered in d...

The need to manage and coordinate design has been recognized in different industries, including construction. However, teams need to have a shared language, which requires a design framework or in other words, ontology, providing terminology, principles, and methods. Systems thinking approaches have been used in a variety of design ontologies, here...

Building Information Modelling (BIM), as an object-oriented tool, has been the buzzword in Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector in recent years. The buzz has created a lot of promise of an imminent paradigm shift and productivity and lifecycle improvements in the AEC sector, and plenty of benefits are cited in the literature. Cons...

In recent years, there has been an increasing call for multi-disciplinarity in higher education. The literature stresses the importance of multi-disciplinarity in architectural and engineering design education. The present study describes a framework that has been developed to focus on the identification of the profile of engineering and architectu...

This paper studies the potential useful minimum building information models (BIM) that are required as inventory models for managing renovation projects. The findings reported in this paper are based on three renovation project case studies and 21 face-to-face interviews with key personnel and experts associated with the cases and the case organisa...

Building information modelling (BIM), as an object-based tool, has been the buzzword in architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sector in recent years. The buzz has created a lot of promise of an imminent paradigm shift and productivity and lifecycle improvements in the AEC sector and plenty of benefits are cited in the literature. Consequ...

In recent years, there has been an increasing call for multi-disciplinarity in higher education. The literature stresses the importance of multi-disciplinarity in architectural and engineering design education. The present study describes a framework that has been developed to focus on the identification of the profile of engineering and architectu...

This paper reports on a computer simulation based approach to studying longitudinal patterns in social emergence of design practice. Design practice is an emergent and not a well-understood social phenomenon, especially in terms of understanding how values associated with different design disciplines influence their design practice. A society of ag...

As the Building Information Modelling (BIM) for facilities management (FM) research is gaining greater emphasis, the Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) standard is becoming increasingly central to the discussion. Therefore, it is timely that we seek better understanding of how COBie has evolved within both BIM and FM doma...