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<doi>/ISEC.res.2017.31</doi>
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<article-title>STANDARD INFORMATION FOR CONSTRUCTION<br/>
EQUIPMENT IN A RELATIONAL DATABASE</article-title>
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<author>MARCO L. TRANI, MANUELE CASSANO, and DAVIDE TODARO</author>

<aff>Dept of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano,<br/>
Milan, Italy</aff>


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<title>ABSTRACT</title>
<p>In the last years, the digital evolution involved the construction sector and produced
radical changes in projects elaboration and realization. The diffusion of digital models
implies a particular attention on information related to the building elements. For what
concerns construction planning and management, this information need to be related to
the information of the elements proper of a construction site such as equipment and
machines. A deep research focused on the manufacturers’ sheets showed how
technical information related to construction equipment are often non-homogenous and
incomplete, probably because of a lack of a precise standard. The aims of this research
are then the definition of a proper standard information structure for construction
equipment and its digitalization thanks to the use of relational Databases and Building
Information Models. To do this the amount of information collected from a wide
number of datasheets have been standardized and organized in homogenous
informative sets to be related in order to gain the correct information package of an
equipment. The realization of a relational database permitted to store such data in a
digital format and to search them in an efficient way. The realization of a BIM library
permitted to provide to designers and firms a tool able to improve and automatize
design choices in terms of construction issues.</p>
<p><italic>Keywords: </italic>Datasheet, BIM, Construction information, Standardization, SQL database.</p>
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