Study on the Overall System Architecture of Construction Equipment Support Information System

The construction industry has made active efforts, such as CALS/EC, to realize seamless and smooth data integration during a whole project lifecycle. In the construction stage of a project, an automatic control equipment, which needs only to input design data, would be desirable. Utilization of construction records for quality control and inspection is also expected. Construction equipment will likely play an important role in seamless data sharing. Standard definitions of information items and adequate rules of information exchange should be created to exchange information between machines working at different stages. In construction projects, coordinate data, which are basic information and quality control data for each position, are especially important, and it should be standardized with consideration of site management. This paper summarizes construction projects that are used recent survey and information technologies. It also investigates standardization methods that will help the utilization of design information in machine operation and construction data in quality control taking account the fact that most of Japanese construction companies usually share to use the same construction machines.