An article co-authored by Sofia Feist, Luís Sanhudo, Vítor Esteves and António Aguiar Costa, from the BUILT CoLAB team, in cooperation with Miguel Pires, from CASAIS-Engenharia e Construção, with the title “Semi-Supervised Clustering for Architectural Modularization”, has been published online in open format. This article is part of the Special Issue “Decision Support Systems for...
It was published online, in open format, an article co-authored by Margarida Amândio, Manuel Parente and Paulo Fonseca, from the IA team at BUILT CoLAB, in collaboration with José Neves, from CERIS, Instituto Superior Técnico, entitled “Intelligent Pavement Data Integration with Decision Support Systems: A Systematic Review”. This article is part of the special issue...
The article “Fuel Consumption Prediction for Construction Trucks: A Noninvasive Approach Using Dedicated Sensors and Machine Learning” of the co-authorship of Gonçalo Pereira, Manuel Parente and João Moutinho, of BUILT CoLAB, and of Manuel Sampaio, MSc student of ISEP, has been published. This paper is now part of the special issue “Artificial Intelligence in Geotechnical...
By João Moutinho
Business Director BUILT CoLAB How should the construction industry react to meet the challenges of a more digital, more sustainable, more competitive society with less available labor? Construction, which encompasses buildings, infrastructure and industrial structures, is the largest industry in the global economy, representing 13% of world GDP (McKinsey, 2020). Companies that...
A new article of co-authorship of Manuel Parente, Head of AI of BUILT CoLAB, was published with the title “Geotechnics in Pavements and Railways and Prospects for the Digital Age”.
This article was written jointly with António Gomes Correia (ISISE, Civil Engineering Department, University of Minho), José Neves (CERIS, Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geo-Resources Department,...
An article co-authored by Margarida Amândio and Manuel Parente, from the AI team at BUILT CoLAB, was accepted and published online in an open format, with the title “Intelligent planning of road pavement rehabilitation processes through optimization systems”. This article will be edited in volume 5 of Elsevier’s “Transportation Engineering” magazine in September 2021, and...
Bim Excellence 2021 Award Winning Videos. Here we have the videos of the candidates who won the awards and honorable mentions of the 2021 edition of the BIM Excellence Award. Prémio “Simulação e Projeto” – COBA Consultores de Engenharia e Ambiente Prémio “Planeamento e Construção” – HCI Construções SA Prémio “Gestão do Ambiente Construído”- Parques...
An article by Manuel Parente, Head of AI in BUILT CoLAB, with the title “Predictive and prescriptive analytics in transportation geotechnics: Three case studies” has just been accepted and published online in open format. This article, which will be edited in volume 5 of Elsevier’s Transportation Engineering magazine in September 2021, has the following research...
Pavement rehabilitation, especially in a highway context, comprises a complex set of operations from milling the degraded pavement to paving the new layers, while also ensuring the traffic passage. The importance of having serviceable and safe highway networks makes this type of operations very time sensitive, since this usually involves taking over traffic lanes, inevitably...
World Engineering Day 2021 (WED2021) was set last March 4th and had as its theme “Engineering for a Healthy Planet”. The date was also chosen for the launch of UNESCO‘s 2nd Engineering Report “Engineering for Sustainable Development: Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals”. The commemoration of this date, set at the 40th UNESCO General Conference in...
