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2009-04-15
Added a leaflet about IAARC to the Introduction page.
2008-10-22
Made the ISARC 2008 Proceedings CD browsable on-line.
2008-09-29
The BOD has been updated.
2007-10-26
Put a banner to Automation in Construction on the main page
2007-10-24
Made the ISARC 2007 Proceedings CD browsable on-line.


ISARC 2009

ISARC 2008

The 26th ISARC will be held in Austin, Texas, USA, from June 24th to 27th of 2009. For details, visit http://www.caee.utexas.edu/isarc2009/.


ICCEM-ICCPM 2009

ICCEM-ICCPM 2009

The 3rd ICCEM-ICCPM will be held in Jeju Island, South Korea, from May 27th to 30th of 2009. For details, visit http://www.iccem-iccpm.org/.


Automation in Construction


ISARC 2008

ISARC 2008

The 25th ISARC was held in Vilnius, Lithuania, from June 27th to 29th of 2008. For details, visit www.isarc2008.vgtu.lt/.



The top 25 hottest articles in Automation in Construction - ScienceDirect

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ScienceDirect TOP25 Hottest Articles


  1. Building information modelling framework: A research and delivery foundation for industry stakeho...
    Automation in Construction, Volume 18, Issue 3, May 2009, Pages 357-375 | Succar, B.
  2. RFID-based building maintenance system
    Automation in Construction, Volume 18, Issue 3, May 2009, Pages 275-284 | Ko, C.H.
  3. Building information model based energy/exergy performance assessment in early design stages
    Automation in Construction, Volume 18, Issue 2, March 2009, Pages 153-163 | Schlueter, A.; Thesseling, F.
  4. The evolution of prefabricated residential building systems in Hong Kong: A review of the public ...
    Automation in Construction, Volume 18, Issue 3, May 2009, Pages 239-248 | Jaillon, L.; Poon, C.S.
  5. Developing a technology roadmap for construction R&D through interdisciplinary research efforts
    Automation in Construction, Volume 18, Issue 3, May 2009, Pages 330-337 | Kim, C.; Kim, H.; Han, S.H.; Kim, C.; Kim, M.K.; Park, S.H.
  6. Development of a mobile safety monitoring system for construction sites
    Automation in Construction, Volume 18, Issue 3, May 2009, Pages 258-264 | Lee, U.K.; Kim, J.H.; Cho, H.; Kang, K.I.
  7. Automating progress measurement of construction projects
    Automation in Construction, Volume 18, Issue 3, May 2009, Pages 294-301 | Zhang, X.; Bakis, N.; Lukins, T.C.; Ibrahim, Y.M.; Wu, S.; Kagioglou, M.; Aouad, G.; Kaka, A.P.; Trucco, E.
  8. An integrated system for providing mass customized housing
    Automation in Construction, Volume 18, Issue 3, May 2009, Pages 310-320 | Benros, D.; Duarte, J.P.
  9. Construction management process reengineering performance measurements
    Automation in Construction, Volume 18, Issue 2, March 2009, Pages 183-193 | Cheng, M.Y.; Tsai, H.C.; Lai, Y.Y.
  10. Performance analysis of hydraulic excavator powertrain hybridization ? Review article
    Automation in Construction, Volume 18, Issue 3, May 2009, Pages 249-257 | Wang, D.; Guan, C.; Pan, S.; Zhang, M.; Lin, X.
  11. Agent-based evacuation model of large public buildings under fire conditions
    Automation in Construction, Volume 18, Issue 3, May 2009, Pages 338-347 | Shi, J.; Ren, A.; Chen, C.
  12. Modeling corrosion currents of reinforced concrete using ANN
    Automation in Construction, Volume 18, Issue 2, March 2009, Pages 145-152 | Topcu, I.B.; Boga, A.R.; Hocaoglu, F.O.
  13. Visualizing high-rise building construction strategies using linear scheduling and 4D CAD
    Automation in Construction, Volume 18, Issue 2, March 2009, Pages 219-236 | Russell, A.; Staub-French, S.; Tran, N.; Wong, W.
  14. Control strategy of the hybrid drive for vehicle mounted aerial work platform
    Automation in Construction, Volume 18, Issue 2, March 2009, Pages 130-138 | Krasucki, J.; Rostkowski, A.; Gozdek, L.; Bartys, M.
  15. Multiobjective design of Work-In-Process buffer for scheduling repetitive building projects
    Automation in Construction, Volume 18, Issue 2, March 2009, Pages 95-108 | Gonzalez, V.; Alarcon, L.F.; Molenaar, K.
  16. Web-based conceptual cost estimates for construction projects using Evolutionary Fuzzy Neural Inf...
    Automation in Construction, Volume 18, Issue 2, March 2009, Pages 164-172 | Cheng, M.Y.; Tsai, H.C.; Hsieh, W.S.
  17. Economic evaluation model for post-earthquake bridge repair/rehabilitation: Taiwan case studies
    Automation in Construction, Volume 18, Issue 2, March 2009, Pages 204-218 | Cheng, M.Y.; Wu, Y.W.; Chen, S.J.; Weng, M.C.
  18. Excavator tele-operation system using a human arm
    Automation in Construction, Volume 18, Issue 2, March 2009, Pages 173-182 | Kim, D.; Kim, J.; Lee, K.; Park, C.; Song, J.; Kang, D.
  19. Fast automatic registration of range images from 3D imaging systems using sphere targets
    Automation in Construction, Volume 18, Issue 3, May 2009, Pages 265-274 | Franaszek, M.; Cheok, G.S.; Witzgall, C.
  20. Automated stochastic quality function deployment system for measuring the quality performance of ...
    Automation in Construction, Volume 18, Issue 3, May 2009, Pages 348-356 | Lee, D.E.; Lim, T.K.; Arditi, D.
  21. A support vector machine model for contractor prequalification
    Automation in Construction, Volume 18, Issue 3, May 2009, Pages 321-329 | Lam, K.C.; Palaneeswaran, E.; Yu, C.y.
  22. IFC and building lifecycle management
    Automation in Construction, Volume 18, Issue 1, December 2008, Pages 70-78 | Vanlande, R.; Nicolle, C.; Cruz, C.
  23. Housing refurbishment contractors selection based on a hybrid fuzzy-QFD approach
    Automation in Construction, Volume 18, Issue 2, March 2009, Pages 139-144 | Juan, Y.K.; Perng, Y.H.; Castro-Lacouture, D.; Lu, K.S.
  24. Evaluation of position tracking technologies for user localization in indoor construction environ...
    Automation in Construction | Khoury, H.M.; Kamat, V.R.
  25. Integrating design and construction through virtual prototyping
    Automation in Construction, Volume 17, Issue 8, November 2008, Pages 915-922 | Li, H.; Huang, T.; Kong, C.W.; Guo, H.L.; Baldwin, A.; Chan, N.; Wong, J.

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Introduction of ICCEM-ICCPM 2009

Published 2009-01-22 16:33 CET
The ICCEM-ICCPM 2009 will be held in Jeju Island, South Korea, from May 27th to 30th of 2009. The deadline for registration is April 20. Read more about the event in the introduction attached below or on http://www.iccem-iccpm.org/.

Book: Robotics and Automation in Construction

Published 2009-01-22 15:41 CET
The book Robotics and Automation in Construction addresses several issues related to the introduction of automaton and robotics in the construction industry in a collection of 23 chapters. The chapters are grouped in 3 main sections according to the theme or the type of technology they treat. All chapters are available for free download via the following link.

IAARC's Newsletter 2009:1

Published 2009-01-22 14:29 CET

ISARC 2008 proceedings CD on-line

Published 2008-10-22 13:08 CET
The proceedings CD from the 25th ISARC, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, during June 26-29 2008, has been made browsable on-line. The Proceedings include 124 manuscripts from 22 countries authored by leading international researchers in construction automation and robotics who were in attendance at this international meeting. All papers were peer reviewed.

Tucker-Hasegawa Award to Prof. Thomas Bock

Published 2008-07-11 15:28 CET
During the 25th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics (ISARC) held in June in Vilnius, Lithuania Prof Dr.-Ing/Univ Tokio Thomas Bock got the Richard Tucker – Yokio Hasegawa highest honor award.

IAARC's Newsletter 2008:1

Published 2008-06-26 13:31 CET

Special Issue on Robotics and Automation Technologies in Construction

Published 2008-04-11 11:48 CET, by Jonas Åhman
The International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems published a Special Issue on Robotics and Automation Technologies in Construction in their Volume 4, Number 4 December 2007 issue. All articles are available on-line:

ISARC 2007 proceedings CD on-line

Published 2007-10-24 13:07 CET
The proceedings CD from the 24th ISARC, held in Kochi, India, during September 19-21 2008, has been made browsable on-line. The theme of ISARC 2007 was "Appropriate Automation for Productivity Improvement".

Tucker-Hasegewa Award to Prof. Miroslaw Skibniewski

Published 2007-10-23 17:01 CET
During the 24th ISARC held in Kochi, India (19-21 September 2007), the Richard Tucker - Yukio Hasegewa Award, IAARC's highest honor awarded to a researcher in construction automation and robotics, was presented to Professor Miroslaw J. Skibniewski.

ISARC 2006 proceedings CD on-line

Published 2006-11-17 14:43 CET
The proceedings CD from the 23rd ISARC, held in Tokyo, Japan, during October 3-5 2009, has finally been made browsable on-line.

ISARC 2007 Announcement & Details

Published 2006-11-06 14:55 CET, by Koshy Varghese
ISARC 2007 will be held from 19-21 September 2007 in Kochi, Kerala, INDIA. The symposium will be organised by Indian Institute of Technology Madras, (IITM)

Prof. Ronie Navon elected new President

Published 2006-10-24 10:36 CET
Prof. Ronie Navon has been elected as the next President of IAARC for three years, starting from 2007.

IAARC's Newsletter 2006:4

Published 2006-04-28 17:08 CET
The IAARC's Newsletter 2006:4 contains the following articles:
  • Editor’s message
  • The ISARC’05 in Ferrara
  • Introduction of Knowledge Documents Management (KDM) Portal for Technical Support in Construction Industries
  • Automated Performance
  • Measurement
  • ISARC 2006 in Japan
  • ISARC 2004/2005 proceedings CD on-line

IAARC's Newsletter 2006:5

Published 2006-04-27 15:27 CET
This is a special edition of IAARC's newsletter containing a contribution by Professor Thomas Bock on Innovation in Construction by Automation and Robotics.

ISARC 2005 proceedings CD on-line

Published 2006-04-04 14:45 CET
The proceedings CD from the 22nd ISARC, held in Ferrara, Italy, during September 11-14 2005, has finally been made browsable on-line. All in all it contains 93 papers concerning various aspects of the field of ARC.

New deadline for submission of abstracts to ISARC 2006

Published 2006-03-02 13:37 CET
Please notice that the deadline for abstract submission to ISARC 2006 has been extended to March 8, 2006.
The 23rd ISARC, "International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction 2006 (ISARC 2006)" will be held in Tokyo, from October 3 to 5, 2006. Visit the ISARC 2006 website for further details.

ISARC 2004 proceedings CD on-line

Published 2005-07-13 13:00 CET
The proceedings CD from the 21st ISARC, held in Juju Island during September 21-25 2004, has finally been made browsable on-line. All in all it contains 131 papers from 21 countries concerning various aspects of the field of ARC.

New: On-line ISARC Proceedings CDs

Published 2005-03-01 14:45 CET
IAARC have decided to make available the proceedings from past ISARCs on-line. A first step will be to make the CDs from past ISARCs browsable on the web site. The first CD is already available, containing the proceedings from ISARC 17 that was held in Taiwan 2000. The coming weeks at least one new CD with ISARC proceedings will be made available every week.

ISARC 2004 - a follow-up

Published 2005-02-07 08:40 CET, by Soon-Wook Kwon
ISARC 2004 was successfully held in the beautiful Jeju Island during September 21~25 2004. The total number of presented papers was 131 from 22 different countries including USA, Japan, Taiwan, Germany, Canada, Finland, Israel, Poland, The Netherlands, Spain, Italy, and about 200 people attended the symposium. Following figures show the percentage of the number of the papers in the proceeding and visitors of the symposium.

Tucker-Hasegawa Award 2004 to Prof. Ronie Navon

Published 2004-10-15 13:49 CET, by IAARC Webmaster
At the 21th ISARC in Korea, Professor Ronie Navon of Israel Institute of Technology was awarded the annual Tucker-Hasegawa Award.

Robots That Build (but Still Won't Do Windows)

Published 2004-03-22 10:30 CET, by Margret Wertheim
An interesting project aimed to develop a CNC machine for house construction recently got a full coverage in The New York Times. Here is an excerpt from the article and a link for those interested in reading more about the project.

On the road to a new Web Site

Published 2004-03-09 03:10 CET, by IAARC Webmaster
We are currently remaking IAARC's web site. Here we will explain the goals and progress of this continious work.

Web site for the 21st ISARC is up

Published 2003-11-19 15:53 CET, by Jonas Åhman
The 21st ISARC will take place on September 21-25, 2004 at the Jeju Island, in Korea. There is now a dedicated site up and running with all the information and details you need to know about the symposium. Visit the http://www.isarc2004.org/ site for more information.

ISARC 2003 concluded

Published 2003-09-26 00:00 CET
The ISARC 2003 was successfully held at the Technische Universiteit in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. To read more about it visit the link below.

Download IAARCs latest newsletter

Published 2003-09-19 14:39 CET
The new edition is now available for download.

The Ninth ICCCBE

Published 2003-09-18 14:36 CET
This conference is the ninth international meeting sponsored by the International Society for Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ISCCBE). Following the success of several previous ICCCBE conferences in New York (1981), Peking (1985), Vancouver (1988), Tokyo (1991), Anaheim (1993), Berlin (1995), Seoul (1997), and Stanford (2000), the Ninth ICCCBE conference will continue to bring together academics and practicing engineers to promote and exchange ideas, solutions, and experiences across a broad range of A/E/C topics related to Computing and Information Technologies.

ISARC 2003 in Eindhoven, Netherlands

Published 2003-09-18 14:30 CET
ISARC 2003 will be held at the Technische Universiteit in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. To read more about it visit the following web site.

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