Publications (22)
Learning and Simulating Building Evacuation Patterns for Enhanced Safety Design Using Generative Models
Jin Han, Zhe Zheng, Yi Gu +2
Evacuation simulation is essential for building safety design, ensuring properly planned evacuation routes. However, traditional evacuation simulation relies heavily on refined mod…
Exploiting the Power of Human-Robot Collaboration: Coupling and Scale Effects in Bricklaying
Jia-Rui Lin, Ming-Hui Wu
As an important contributor to GDP growth, the construction industry is suffering from labor shortage due to population ageing, COVID-19 pandemic, and harsh environments. Consideri…
Earthquake Impact Analysis Based on Text Mining and Social Media Analytics
Zhe Zheng, Hong-Zheng Shi, Yu-Cheng Zhou +2
Earthquakes have a deep impact on wide areas, and emergency rescue operations may benefit from social media information about the scope and extent of the disaster. Therefore, this…
BEST-KAG: Enhancing Question Answering of Building Engineering Standards with Multimodal Knowledge Graph Modeling and Large Language Model
Jia-Rui Lin, Junxi Guo, Keyin Chen +1
Construction standards are critical for building safety and sustainability. Existing standard application workflows rely on keyword-based document retrieval and manual cross-clause…
Automatic Design Method of Building Pipeline Layout Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning
Chen Yang, Zhe Zheng, Jia-Rui Lin
The layout design of pipelines is a critical task in the construction industry. Currently, pipeline layout is designed manually by engineers, which is time-consuming and laborious.…
A natural-language-based approach to intelligent data retrieval and representation for cloud BIM
Jia-Rui Lin, Zhen-Zhong Hu, Jian-Ping Zhang +1
As the information from diverse disciplines continues to integrate during the whole life cycle of an Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) project, the BIM (Building In…