Sustainable Development in Construction

Semnan is a city in semnan province, northern Iran with a population estimated at 119,778 inhabitants. It is the provincial capital of semnan province. Iran is a developing country and construction is a basic factor of developing too. Hence, Semnan city needs to a special programming for construction of buildings, structures and infrastructures. Semnan municipality tries to begin this program. In addition to, city has some historical monuments which can be interesting for tourists. Hence, Semnan inhabitants can benefit from tourist industry. Optimization of Energy in construction industry is another activity of this municipality and the inhabitants who execute these regulations receive some discounts. Many parts of Iran such as semnan are located in highly seismic zones and structures must be constructed safe e.g., according to recent seismic codes. In this paper opportunities of IT in construction industry of Iran are investigated in three categories. Pre-construction phase, construction phase and earthquake disaster mitigation are studied. Studies show that information technology can be used in these items for reducing the losses and increasing the benefits. Both government and private sectors must contribute to this strategic project for obtaining the best result.

Authors:

• Ali Hemmati
• Ali Kheyroddin

Keywords:

• approval
• building
• construction
• document
• industry
• IT
• Semnan

References:

[1] Kicinger, R. and Arciszewski, T. and Jong, K.D. (2003). "Conceptual
design in structural engineering an evolutionary computation approach".
Proc. of the 2nd international specialty conference on the conceptual
approach to structural design, 529-536.
[2] Hassell, S. and Bernstein, M. and Bower A. (2000). "The role of
information technology in housing design and construction". Science
and technology policy institute, 1-35.
[3] Mokhtar, A. and Bedrad, C. (1994). "Towards integrated construction
technical documents-a new approach through product modeling". proc.
of the first European conference on product and process modeling in
building industry, 3-10.
[4] Inch, E.F. and Flangan, R. and Marsh L.E. (1996). "Electronic document
management in construction using auto-ID". J. of Automation in
Construction, 5, 313-321.
[5] Building and Housing Research Center. (2005). "Iranian code for
seismic resistant design of buildings", 5-15.
[6] Ramancharla, P.K. (2002). "Role of information technology in
earthquake disaster mitigation". Earthquake engineering research center,
1-9.
[7] Andrew J. Y. (1995). "Active control of vibration in stiffened
structures", School of mechanical engineering, The university of
Adelaide, Australia, PhD dissertation.
[8] Sawhney, A. and Mund, A. (1998). "Simulation based construction
management learning system". Proc. of the winter simulation
conference, 1319-1324.
[9] Echeverry, D. (1996). "Multimedia-based instruction of building
construction". Proc. of the third congress on computing in civil
engineering, 927-977.