ITcon Special Issue

Virtual, Augmented and Mixed: New Realities in Construction

editor(s) Dr Dermott McMeel and Dr Vicente A. Gonzalez
summary This special edition of Information Technology in Construction is focuses on new realities in construction. The editors have curated a series of papers intended to provoke speculation on the potential future of construction in the 21st Century and beyond. This edition grew from ConVR 2018: Evolving Construction, a conference held in Auckland, New Zealand. Where researchers reported on ideas, innovations and applications for virtual and augmented reality for construction. Authors of excellent papers were invited to extend their submission for publication in this special edition. Thus, this issue presents a glimpse into the state of research focused on construction and specifically the topic of ‘virtual and augmented reality’ in its broadest sense.

Papers in this special issue

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1McMeel D, Gonzalez V A (2019).
SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORIAL: Virtual, Augmented and Mixed: New Realities in Construction,
ITcon Vol. 24, Special issue Virtual, Augmented and Mixed: New Realities in Construction, pg. 509-510, doi:10.36680/j.itcon.2019.027
2Nath N D, Chaspari T, Behzadan A H (2019).
Single- and multi-label classification of construction objects using deep transfer learning methods,
ITcon Vol. 24, Special issue Virtual, Augmented and Mixed: New Realities in Construction, pg. 511-526, doi:10.36680/j.itcon.2019.028
3McMeel D (2019).
Robots and AR: towards a platform economy for construction,
ITcon Vol. 24, Special issue Virtual, Augmented and Mixed: New Realities in Construction, pg. 527-539, doi:10.36680/j.itcon.2019.029
4Dawood H, Siddle J, Dawood N (2019).
Integrating IFC and NLP for automating change request validations,
ITcon Vol. 24, Special issue Virtual, Augmented and Mixed: New Realities in Construction, pg. 540-552, doi:10.36680/j.itcon.2019.030
5Graham K, Chow L, Fai S (2019).
From BIM to VR: defining a level of detail to guide virtual reality narratives,
ITcon Vol. 24, Special issue Virtual, Augmented and Mixed: New Realities in Construction, pg. 553-568, doi:10.36680/j.itcon.2019.031
6Chowdhury T, Adafin J, Wilkinson S (2019).
Review of digital technologies to improve productivity of New Zealand construction industry,
ITcon Vol. 24, Special issue Virtual, Augmented and Mixed: New Realities in Construction, pg. 569-587, doi:10.36680/j.itcon.2019.032
7Hong Y, Hammad A W A, Akbarnezhad A (2019).
Forecasting the net costs to organisations of Building Information Modelling (BIM) implementation at different levels of development (LOD),
ITcon Vol. 24, Special issue Virtual, Augmented and Mixed: New Realities in Construction, pg. 588-603, doi:10.36680/j.itcon.2019.033